Ice Skating Rink Built Into Downtown Apartment
Midtown Manhattan seems an unusual spot for a private ice skating rink, but at 213 West 58th Street there's a 20 by 32-foot skating area built into the rear of a fashionable apartment building. The owner, Alan Murray, a shoe manufacturer and ice-skating instructor, had the rink built into the site of an unused stable behind the building so his friends and students could take a turn on the ice without inconvenience or temperature worries. An ice-making machine capable of freezing 10 tons of ice a day keeps the ice in shape, and Mr. Murray's apartment and offices are around and above the rink.
The picture shows the host and his daughter as they watch the skaters from the apartment.
From December 1960 Popular Mechanics magazine
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