Historical society. He is an architectural historian who specializes in European Architecture of the 18th and 20th centuries. He is best known throughout new videohrough a series of walking tour is presented by channel 13 including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He has lectured at numerous venues, including columbia university, the Smithsonian Institute and the harvard graduate before we begin we would like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones, electronic beepers, lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. [applause] barry i dont need that. Me, i am all over the stage. It is interesting, i had some people talking to me about this lecture. I am not talking about the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. Why brooklyn needed the bridge and more so than that, new york. New york would never ever admit that they needed brooklyn but they needed it. Just in case people were not here, it was a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. In rec
We were done on the embarcadero a and got some souvenirs for some friends. Reporter the sidewalks were full but people didnt seem to mind the traffic. Its not as bad as weve seen in other cities. Given the day before christmas, its pretty business busy. People are friendly. Is not bad out here. I am used to go shopping every Christmas Eve. The stores are not really crowded. They havent been crowded in the last two weeks. I think peoples finances are different. Already shop. Reporter six or seven Stores Closed for the night. People stuck around to hang out, taking pictures under the Christmas Tree and some taking a spin in the iceskating rink. Weve established that if you havent done your shopping, its too mac late. Here is what you can still do. You can ice skate until 11 30. You do have to get down here soon. There is quite the waiting list. Here is also something you can do that is about giving back. You can still come drop off a toy that lefty oh doyles for their toy drive. They ope
You can see exactly where it is at right now and the San Francisco and also into Half Moon Bay. The heaviest rainfall right now over the Santa Cruz Mountains, and that is where we are watching for the potential of 10 or 12 inches of rain. A nice upslope of rain and you could indeed see to have the for tonight. Lets take in for a closer look. Near santa cruz you can see the rain continuing to fall and it is going to be heavy throughout the night and only picking up as he looked toward twin lakes. You have henry amount of rain right there to the north we have more heavy rainfall in that direction. And then you take a look along the peninsula and now the rain has started to sweep onshore but live showers that are moving in right now but again, it is just beginning to pick up and there is plenty more to come. You can see the sunset district and there singh rainfall, moreno the daily bay shore and bay view euros to sing raindrops there. Just off the coastline, theres a whole lot maureen on
Startling numbers from the nypd show that while Violent Crime has dropped citywide, down 50 in central park, its up 23 in other parks. Weve never seen a jump like this before. Reporter jeff croft is president of new york parks advocates, which crunched the latest nypd crime reports comparing the most recent nine months to the same period last year. It found rapes were up 40 , felony assault jumped 34 , and robberies spiked 15 . 417 victim of Violent Crime. Its pretty shocking. And the fact thats more than a person a day. Reporter topping the list, crotona park in the bronx, which had 17 Violent Crimes. An increase of 89 over the past nine months. Followed by prospect park, where 15 Violent Crimes represented a jump of 275 . Flushing meddles on, 67 meadows park has been a forgotten stepchild of the new York City Parks system. Our crime rates have always been relatively high compared to other large parks. Reporter overall, crime in parks is only up 3 . Commissioner bratten says you have
Breaking away with this, doubledigit lead, 15 points, a new paul has her 15 points ahead. Theresa what caused the cargo plane to skid off the runway in italy and end upon a is that it . Lots of rough weather. Greg hi, everybody. I thought i would try rosannas seat. She usually sits here. I just i am on a different plane. How about you . I go back and forth. Greg mike woods, going to go back home. Theresa back to his rightful throne. Meteorologist first time i meteorologist sorry. Greg dont make a big deal out of it. Meteorologist another warm day coming up. These temperatures going up more so tomorrow but that comes along, we pay a price for that. Park, 65 in poughkeepsie, 59 in sussex, 69 in bridgeport. The dewpoint fairly low, we have a mainly clear sky in the tristate region and that brings a lot of sunshine like we have now or the last several days and highpressure in control but one difference. We will the winds from the humidity coming up, moisture over the midatlantic region com