January 3, 1984 –
On this day, the Upper West Side’s West End-Collegiate Historic District designated as the Upper West Side’s fourth Historic District.
Also on this day,
“Say, Say, Say” by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson was the number-one song in America.
On the television, the three-season-long series “Riptide” premiered on NBC. Named for a boat that served as the office of a detective agency run by two Vietnam Vets.
The lead New York Times headline read: “France is Moving 25% of Its Troops Away from Beirut” returning 482 soldiers to the U.N. Force Southern Lebanon.
In other news, there was a duo of preservation rebirths. Page B1 shared “New Haven Theater Is Bidding to Revive Its Onetime Glories,” regarding the reopening of New Haven’s Shubert Theater that closed in 1976.
And on Page B6, “For Old Union Station, A 2d Chance to Be New” discussed the Department of Transportation’s plans to restore “some of its former glory and turn it back into an operating train station, with a shopping complex thrown in.”
Read the designation report of the West End Collegiate Historic District HERE!
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