The New Yorker Hotel is just a block from the original Penn Station but at its rear. I suppose that the taxi stand might have been on Seventh Avenue, so the taxi would have had to drive three blocks to circle around to the hotel on Eighth Avenue. Nevertheless Bill got there without getting wet.
Bill may be writing "borax man" to describe Mr. Kauffman. If so it might be due to a resemblance to someone in 20-Mule Team Borax Soap advertisements or to the 1940 movie "20 Mule Team" starring Wallace Beery.
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