It's been a bunch of years since the various incarnations of the NY
> area telephone companies had their mainoffices on Sixth Avenue
> [a]. (They still have some switching equipment at that location, and
> might have a bit of office space, but everything else is long gone).
> [a] called "Avenue of the Americas" by real estate folk and naive > furriners...
Having been with Southwestern Bell, not NY Telephone, I had no idea where that company had its headquarters, but having visited NY several times for the then AT&T I could tell you its headquarters were at 195 Broadway (usually just "195") and Long Lines headquarters were at 32 Avenue ot the Americas (the only place I ever heard of that gave its address as "Avenue of the Americas," almost everyone else gave their address as "Sixth Avenue."
I would suggest most of the things our esteemed moderator suggested originated at "195" (Broadway), not at a single regional AT&T subsidiary.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com snipped-for-privacy@aol.com
***** Moderator's Note *****
OK, from now on I'll list Verizon's address as
1 Pretentious Place Valhalla, NY
.. in the hopes that readers stop confusing a building with what happens inside it!
Bill Horne Moderator