From A Cold Water Flat To The Waldorf -- Richard Earl Cox Carrier his sleeping 1?-year-old Son, Richard, Jr., As he, his wife Eleanor, and their other son, Jimmie, 2?, arrive at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, March 14. Cox moved his family into a $12.60 a day room at the Hotel, insisting he would pay $4 of the monthly bill. The remainder. He said, would be sent to Mayor O'Dwyer because the city had not providing the Coxes with quarters in a veteran's housing project. The family was living in a $16 a month cold water flat in Brooklyn. March 14, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).