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Has offered the services of a special traffic bureau to aid truckers and commercial drivers in planning the shortest preference route between Manhattan and Long Island ports for specific information to enable you to get the most possible mileage from reduced gasoline photos from cars and clocks right through the traffic bureau New York City Tunnel Authority at two hundred Madison at that same address any driving using his or her car for essential driving between what happens at the point of the long hot and points can get a free copy of the official title map showing Queens Midtown Tunnel roads and routes you and your fellow workers are probably among the many thousands who will form the carpool car sharing club to save get you know this time a map will be of particular help in working out the best route to our jobs across the East River the address once again New York City Pamela tardy two hundred Madison Avenue. With or without free man fifty feet of time between made phone calls big yellow and black directional clearly marked the road leading to the top end of the Queens Midtown bubble in Manhattan from any street clean the city for off and euphoria street from first to second in Queens and to the Donald at Queens Boulevard. Underpass near sixty ninth Street rather connecting the highway of the Midtown highway or at Twenty first Street and. When you look through the tunnel Plaza at Vernon Boulevard now to blame and I say over and sad for me to report on my travels of this past week since I think listeners may like to visit a few of the spots I'm about to mention. First of all I had a realized well day out of doors up at Van Martin on Wednesday and without any hesitation I can recommend a trip up the Hudson for City weary souls I went up by the Hudson River there a lot of boat from West forty second Street here that's one recommended move but you can also reach beyond mountain by boat from Battery Park as a boat each morning or Father West Shore Railroad train probably Hawken the railroad is recommended for those who want to reach the parking area as early as possible and spend the longest amount of con father river steamers offer a leisurely trip but anyone who's ever read Mark Twain's life on the Mississippi will really appreciate it now take it easy Laura day going to use or writing Oh you've already been voting for him but I'm sure there's no comparison group like one of them is if you don't like them oh oh yes there is so many of your office around excited with a history of the beauty of our own Hudson ride to Bear Mountain teach you a thing or two if you keep your eyes wide open among the fascinating sights of the Normandy the George Washington Bridge the tower of Palisades the lovely sandy of the west chester show us a Washington Irving County stormy pride at Iona Island past the rugged southern ramparts of the Hudson Highlands the river traffic and damn often bridge. Thank you two would you can say on the same ride up to New Britain which means a sail through the whole range of the Highlands under West Point's around type pastures a lot of mountain down the bird Anthony's nose and Storm King up at Newbury you can see Washington's headquarters take the ferry to Beacon and ride on the incline railway up to the top of Mount beacon far commends view of the entire river program which grow more frequent Laura during the revolution one of the chain of beacon lights was lighted there at the Washington troops informed of movements of the enemy if you take the unplanned rail like of the top you'll appreciate the strategic reason for placing a beacon there you can see down the river almost to New York north of the Catskills and east to the Berkeley but if you're interested in the reason for how to move a place name them because they have a mountain called Anthony's nose got its name oh god goddess they are broke but I'll bite out of them going to nose gets me when you can believe it or not but the story is that a mate on a Dutch flew proud of tremendous nose one day while sailing up the Hudson his crew noticed the contour of the rugged mountain opposite Bam often precisely matched the makes no fuss since the mate's name is Anthony and I'm often has been called at police novels ever since we're quite a monument to know better and then the very good found about of the family really has its fair and sugar loudmouths shaped like a sugar loaf go easy Laura the reserved lot of every poor of us will bear that very moment came under in cages at the trailside new scenes with you should visit but back in the woods you can find deer and believe upon a fox or two and part a bit of wildlife you see Bear Mountain Park is just one sector of the interstate Poff more than a nature preserve extending from the Palisades right up to West Point and back and then to the Greenwood like section you can get a meal at Bear Mountain in swimmin the big part of go boating on hessian lake all close to civilization but if you feel the call of the wild head to one of the trails leading back into the hills trails mots with metal tree of life after a modern through your reach one of the famed Seven Lakes. Or left iron mines or Doodle column name for Yankee Doodle the whole section is sprinkled with abandoned mines overgrown farms natural wood mint and rocky precipices at that swell section for hiking picnicking are overnight camping and the few hours from New York yes and back from the top of bear mob nor any other of the tall police you can see the Manhattan skyline more than fifty miles away take a tip from this reporter take your family or a friend or two when Bill a bit of a growing up where Mom would see anything else during the first week the fact is I had a busy week showing a few out of town cousins to sit inside and as I've reported in the past the best plan I've come across is to take one of the boat surfing Manhattan Island giving the visitor a waterfront two of one half of parts of Brooklyn the Bronx and clean both run from the battery in from West forty second Street at ten thirty and two thirty each they must route as a surprise to the amount of pass around the northern end of Manhattan along a picture at Harlem River path about the Big East River bridges a big thrill to and seeing the style on the waterfront and other spectacular cities by make a big hit with native New Yorkers making the kid for the first time as well as out of town folks we're spent most of the week on the we have a lot of practice I didn't maybe I think you're on the way at any rate I went wrong one day over at Prospect Park in Brooklyn that's my favorite play perhaps because it's the biggest one pound but you can go on Central Park or up at Van Cortlandt Park in Manhattan or out of clove like Spock and Staten Island well exercised lots of sunshine lots of fresh air and very good for the sedentary New York and frankly I was very my rowing a little before that when I get to a bit of fish. So much when I only rode with water a thirty three. Foot or lower than you were going to be down itself that most of it but to get from the and so our county island of Brooklyn are could be taken the wrong and any one of the seven hundred for me to. Operated by the city fathers in every part of the big house. I'll be voting knowing it's women anything else from my calendar suggests. Oh yes the Museum of Modern Art a lot of confession I've been using a Museum of Modern Art as a country but now now now that's playing things down a bit like don't you think don't tell me you played golf and tennis seven museums all but I do go out of their building look over a few pictures an airconditioned comfort and then go out of a very attractive gardens behind the museum at the various well place for having a tall cool drink kind of a treat to throw or a spot of the fire sandwiches that sculpture in the garden comfortable tables and chairs and if things get for I have a down in the air conditioned museum called the Museum I should add it's located on West fifty third Street just west of Fifth Avenue at a very fun spot there's a nice library and lots of art magazines to show a lot of good north from the weary shoppers in search of but I don't think the Museum of Modern Art should get all the credit for making museums habitable Brooklyn Museum for instance for a completely modernize the Europe who backed and with the attraction of parking but ended gardens makes a very pleasant for out of which to spend the day to trumpet for it and hear a washstand concert crowd round there and see the fruits and special exhibits a member of it a fraud in the museum lunchables which means music and food for under one roof might look yes and these days of law besides the many exhibits dealing specifically with what automatics are museums here in town and the coming records for folks who just wanted to take Panama to relax a bit the Metropolitan Museum even the Museum of Natural History which is another old standby Yes I remember artifacts of particular interest these days and along with those who knows the planetarium and the Historical Museum as this town of ours has lots to offer even though the concert season is over. Well all right it's time to close this suggestion shop with a reminder that a lot of big flat the hunt outs from broadcast information months and need for public recreations Provincetown of interest through a good sized group of New Yorkers if you want information on specific sort of sightseeing on hiking biking or boating for instance just right through recreation suggestions take the time of program W. N.Y.C. New York seven in New York of course if you have any gifts of your own that's worth thinking about down send them along with most of our cars off the road we're all hunting out good spots for picnicking swimming wars for close to transit routes always glad to get Let us now to final reminders for working motorists and commercial car at the New York City Council I thought a fair was cooperations programs are broadcast as a special traffic the hour of Betty to assist traffic fleet owners and commercial drivers in planning the shortest fastest route between Manhattan and Queens roads and what have you can save gas during a wide margin of safety contract traffic we are all for information. And remember the working motorists who must drive to watch plants in Queens on Long Island save gas sometimes by using the plane's midtown tunnel end of the tunnel at any Speakman happened between these thirty fourth Street and fortieth Street and from for us the Second Avenue is in Queens Drive in from Queens Boulevard near sixty ninth Street take the Midtown highway or enter F. twenty fifth Street follow the yellow and black tunnel markets and get a free map of tunnel roads and groups by writing to the New York City families are they at two hundred Madison that for the duration of the family's open from six A.M. to midnight. And this is but child. Saying thanks and so long till next Friday at six fifty listen each weekend at that same time when you should Justin's on New York sightseeing and recreate this is the municipal Broadcasting System.