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4 St. Thomas
Church
1 W 53rd St. Map 12 F4. Tel (212)
757-7013. q 5th Ave-53rd St.
Open 7:30am–6:30pm Mon–Fri,
times vary on Sat, 7am–6pm Sun
(Sep–May; till 1pm in summer).
5 8am, 12:10pm & 5:30pm Mon–Fri,
12:10pm Sat, 8am, 9am & 11am Sun.
^ 7 8 after 11am service &
concerts. ∑ saintthomaschurch.org
This is the fourth home for this
parish and the second on this site.
Today’s church was built between
1909 and 1914 to replace an earlier
structure destroyed in a fire in
1905. The previous building had
provided the setting for many
high-society weddings of the late
19th century. The most lavish of
these was in 1895, when heiress The Beatles’ Paul, Ringo, and John on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964
Consuelo Vanderbilt married the
English Duke of Marlborough. making his television debut. William S. Paley, a former head of
The limestone building, in Sports enthusiasts can relive classic the CBS TV network. It opened
French-Gothic style, has a single Olympic moments. World War II in 1975 as the Museum of Broad-
asymmetrical tower and an off- footage might be chosen by casting on East 53rd Street. It was
center nave, novel solu tions to the students of history.Six choices at so popular that, in 1991, it moved
architectural problems posed by any one time can be selected from to this hi-tech $50 million home.
its corner position. The richly a computer catalog that covers
carved, shimmering white screens a library of over 50,000 programs.
behind the altar were designed by The selections are then played in 7 St. Patrick’s
architect Bertram Goodhue and small private areas. There are larger Cathedral
sculptor Lee Lawrie. Carvings in the screening sections and a theater
choir stalls, dating from the 1920s, for 200, where retro spectives See pp174–5.
include modern inventions such of artists and directors are
as the telephone, plus presidents shown. There are also
Roosevelt and Wilson, and photo exhibits and
Lee Lawrie himself. memorabilia.
The museum was
5 Museum of the brain child of
Modern Art
See pp168–71.

6 Paley Center
for Media
25 W 52nd St. Map 12 F4. Tel (212)
621-6600. q 5th Ave-53rd St.
Open noon–6pm Wed–Sun (to 8pm
Thu). Closed public hols. & ^ 7
8 = ∑ paleycenter.org
In this one-of-a-kind repository
museum, visitors can watch
and listen to a collection of
entertainment and sports
documentaries from radio and
television’s earliest days to the
present. Pop fans can see the early
Beatles or a young Elvis Presley Watch 1960s television star Lucille Ball at the Paley Center for Media

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