I hope you will go see that exhibition. Andrew dolkart is the curator for that exhibition, and he has a very long history with new york city landmarks and architectural history. I think this has gone off now, has it . All right. Andrew is a good friend of longstanding, we like to say, rather than old friend, but we do go way that. This is one more lecture at the Skyscraper Museum, which has been going on in a relationship now for probably nearly the 17 years since the museum was started. Andrew is always there when you call on him to talk about new york city history or speak about yet another of his new books and new publications. He is an exemplary historian and someone who has a long and deep history with new york city landmarks, having worked in his youth at the commission on the , having been a consultant to them, having written many a designation thert, having authored first guidebook to new york city years now and in the since he has been at columbia, heading the historic theerva
York city history or to speak about yet another of his new books and his new publications. He is an exemplary historian and someone who has a long and deep history with new york city landmarks, having worked in his youth at the commission on the research staff, having been a consultant to them, having written many a designation report, having authored the first guidebook to new york city landmarks, and in the years now since he has been at columbia, heading the Historic Preservation program at the graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation. He has been a friend and colleague of everyone who cares about the history of new york and the history of architecture. And indeed, tonight, were celebrating the history of architecture as part of american architecture because we are being filmed here for cspan American History channel. So im going to remind you that when we come to the questionandanswer period, youre going to use this phone in my hand in order to project your impor