"There's a lot of shack property around the new terminal station.

I want to build a smashing big hotel over there.

I don't see why somebody hasn't done it." Polly puzzled over that matter considerably herself.
"It doesn't seem possible that New York would overlook a bet like that," she declared, and obeying the traffic policeman's haughty gesture, turned briskly off Broadway.
"Why not ?" he demanded.

"New York grabs a cinch.

The cinch has been kicking around loose for fifty years.