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Patience and Fortitude (Visit this link)

Originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox for the patrons of the New York Public Library, these lions were renamed by Mayor LaGuardia in 1930 for the virtues New Yorkers would need to survive the depression. There is nothing depressing about this noble pair.

501 5th Avenue @ 42nd Street

(212) 930-0830

Last Modified: Wednesday May 25 2011

Patience and Fortitude is located in
Midtown - West

other neighborhoods in Midtown include:

Clinton , Midtown East , Midtown West , Sutton Place , Theater District , Turtle Bay

Fancy on the Cheap

If you are itching to try some of the city's fine dining, but are decidedly non-itching to pay fine dining prices, stop by for lunch instead of dinner. Many restaurants crammed for dinner will serve the same food to a nearly empty room at lunchtime. Prices are often more reasonable; for instance, Jean Georges, the well-starred restaurant right off Columbus Circle (at 1 Central Park West), has a lunch menu that features any two entrees for only $24. Afterwards, take a walk through the park and splurge on a ridiculously overpriced $4 ice cream from a cart.

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