The worst part of my job is... keeping my paper in order, I am filing on the floor again!
The incident is recorded in a series of letters sent to her insurance company held in the stack files on the 3rd floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, as well as documented by Carl Johnnes in his biography of the actress, Joan Crawford: The Last Years.
Windows facing the street lined one long wall, and a line of black file boxes sat on the floor along the wall opposite.
When I first visited, in February, boxes of files formed a mountain on the floor, law journals were piled on cheap shelving, and a straggly potted palm wilted in a corner.
Stacks of moth-eaten files lay on the table, on the floor, on bamboo shelves that lined the wall.
"My hope would be to file it and have it on the floor as soon as possible.
It was bare yet dishevelled, and contained a few files and a pocket atlas lying on the floor.
Thousands of abandoned court files, some stacked neatly, others scattered on the floor of several rooms.The people working in this building left in a real hurry.
The Palestine Insurance Company, a private firm a few blocks away, had its doors blown away; its furniture was broken, computers were dumped on the floor and file cabinets were ransacked.
