Manhattan

It is told, that when R’ Itche der masmid came to America, he travelled to Manhattan, and was shown the massive skyscrapers (at that time they didn’t have such big buildings in Lubavitch). His reaction was: ‘It says in chassidus that gashmiyus stems from ‘shmorei ho’oyfanim’ (roughly – the excrement of the malochim), un do hoben di malochim gut gekakt!’.