Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:13:52 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] NY NY, such a wonderful place they named it twice . . .Re:
	West Virginia
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 11:08AM
>	But who would take New York City?  I suppoe that the United =
Nations
>might take it over as an international city right after they settle the
>status of Jerusalem.
>	There was a fairly recent proposal to rename New York City after
>Martin Luther King, leading to the suggestion that tourists "Visit the =
King
>City and the Empire State."
>	And for the truly obscure, there is a book in the George Mason
>Regional Library by Rebecca Shanor _The City That Never Was_.  It's full =
of
>proposals for New York City that were never built or were built but in a
>substantially different form including the original version of Batman's =
1989
>Gotham City Cathedral and the New Jersey city to be called Metropolis.
>However, Ms. Shanor missed the giant owl on Washington Heights that
>newspaper magnate James Bennett wanted to be buried in!

The Shanor book looks fascinating.  bn.com has a good listing for it - it =
is OP.  But to connect this to earlier post about New Scientist - and to =
what some might call SF . . .  it was reviewed in New Scientist by of all =
folks Fred Pohl, ex New Yorker.  Currently 7 used copies on www.abebooks.co=
m from $35.91 to $93.37 (weird prices due to currency conversions).

mjw