APRIL 2, 2004 --

Lonely Pamphleteer Review strongly recommends to the Mississippi and Vermont delegations to the Republican National Convention that they stay on the south side of 42nd Street, if they wish to get to their convention hotel -- the Times Square Hilton. That is to say, ignore The New York Times which, by map on page B1 of the February 2 paper, placed the hotel on the north side of 42nd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. LPR understands that it is almost impossible for moderate Republicans to ignore the Times, and therefore, by means of two photos accompanying this article, offers proof that the Times Square Hilton is not where The New York Times located it. (Will the moderates accept this proof?)

The first photo shows the south side of 42nd Street on March 29, at about 1:25 P.M., as indicated by the clock that stands a bit tilted, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The 42nd Street entrance to the Hilton is at that clock. There is also an entrance to the hotel on 41st Street, and the photo of the Hilton sign was takent at that entrance. (Please note that the Times map of G.O.P. convention hotels also mislocated the Crowne Plaza and the Reanaissance, switching their locations. LPR has previously given the true locations of these hotels, and did not, at the time go further to correct the Times map. Crown Plaza is next to the Hershey store on Broadway and 48th and the Renaissance is on Seventh Avenue, a block east, opposite, the Anna Nicole Smith billboard. LPR cannot, of course, guarantee, that Ms. Smith will remain on that billboard at convention time. This is no call, however, for a "Billionaires for Bush" sign to be plastered opposite the Renaissance.)

The photo shown here, of a marquee with the name "Intercontinental" marks the convention abode of the New Hampshire delegation-- which, looking for the Barclay, should enter, and not walk by, the doors beneath that Intercontinental sign, on the north side of 48th Street, between Lexington and Park Avenues. The Barclay has, for some time, been an Intercontinental hotel.

The delegates from Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Oregon who will be looking for the Roosevelt, should feel comfortable in entering the building on the north side of 45th Street at Madison Avenue, that says Roosevelt on the marquee, and is on the western side of Grand Central Station.