Buyout line drive, hear what Terry Collins is saying. Good morning, i am juliet huddy. Kerry i am kerry drew in for ben simmoneau, thanks for being with us. Lets get to mike woods. I have been hearing rumors dari 6s and even 70s later this week. Meteorologist next couple days, making a come back, fall back, looking good, a little push back into fall like weather, central park and poughkeepsie, 54 at newark, belmar, temperature at 52, same in bridgeport and montauk, 50 when in islip, fairly uniform temperatures around the tristate region, 48 being of a cool spot in monticello. Other temperatures from yesterday, 49 degrees central park, 49 in islip, 46 in newark, a little cooler this morning but not as cold as yesterdays the wont be as difficult to step out the door and do what you got southwest at 5 to 17 Miles Per Hour solo little breezy with a few more clouds that that is it, no real whether action in the tristate but there is to the north along a frontal boundary some clouds and show
This took place at the museum of the city of new york and is a little over an hour. To introduce John Tauranac could take the entire evening. John writes on new york architectural history. His books include many subjects including the Empire State Building. His other books include new york from the air, with great aerial photography. Other books include in central new york. There are others. John teaches at nyus school of professional studies. This spring his course is designed an architecture of public transportation. He does tors for the city museum. We welcome and enjoy his tors. His First Published map was undercover map of new york published by new york magazine. He was reader of the 19 he was creator of the 1979 new york subway map. It also included manhattan block by block. John tauranac. [applause] mr. Tauranac greetings. Im going to start with a bit of a digression. I want you to know that im an old fan of this institution. What he think was my favorite thing in the museum of
And this building went up on its site. Whether the Empire State Bank had an office in it, i dont know. Whether they sponsored it, i dont know. But it was called the Empire State Building. Now, today, it was originally an office, a loft building. Today, it is an apartment house. It does have sort of update relationship to the Empire State Building. If you think about superlatives, the architects of these buildings of this building was and they were influenced by the columbian exposition in chicago. Their two most famous buildings were on 6th avenue. They designed the Cooper Department store which was the Worlds Largest Department Store. It was in 1896. They also designed the Department Store on 34th street of Herald Square, macys. They sort of belong in the same league with sugarland and harlem. It was them who designed this building and obviously, this is the real Empire State Building. Its massing is so satisfying. Despite the fact that it is an enormous building. It is 1250 feet high
Heading out of the Capital Building today, you could even spot republican congressman mo brooks of alabama biking into his fiveday weekend. The house wont be back in session until tuesday of next week. But its not like they dont do work over the weekend. Super long or otherwise. Many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, theyre going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. But in the white house and the House Republican congress, over how to, lets be sure were getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to longterm so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the shortterm. Yes, thats right. Now, this may well present a problem for John Boehners caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. Okay,
The house wont be back in session until tuesday of next week. But its not like they dont do work over the weekend. Super long or otherwise. Many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, theyre going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. But in the white house and the House Republican congress, over how to, lets be sure were getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to longterm so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the shortterm. Yes, thats right. Now, this may well present a problem for John Boehners caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. Okay, maybe thats hyperbole. But just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediat