Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organization in order to steward that history. And this building actually was built as the Historical Society and opened in 1881. When it opened, like we have here tonight, it was a place of civic dialogue. In fact, back then this very room had an auditorium and thought leaders came here and spoke. Right here where we were standing, president Woodrow Wilson spoke. Dr. Arthur conan doyle spoke. Senator Henr
And it is great to be back here all the time. A few years ago, after agreeing to write a book celebrating the centennial of Grand Central terminal, i casually suggested an audacious but catchy subtitle, how a train station transformed america. And almost immediately i was struck by second thoughts. Individuals and events shape history, but could a single building . Luckily, Grand Centrals 100 year imprint on commerce and culture, its pivotal role in urban development, and codifying landmark and air rights, in shifting manhattans Cultural Center of gravity from downtown in midtownstep manhattan, turned out to validate the subtitle after all. Aell, a building, albeit monumental one, was one thing. Could a single object be transformative . That question arose after the British Museum and the bbc collaborated on the history of the world in 100 objects. That inspired a spate of collections on subjects including bird watching, the first world war, cricket, the future, the beatles, shakespear
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In the white house. Early voting begins this morning in maryland. Registered voters can cast a ballot today. Select polling sites open daily from 10 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. To avoid a line, youre encouraged to get to a polling place before 4 00. Early voting now through october 30th. Today candidates running for mayor in d. C. Will participate in another forum. It starts at 7 00 at plymouth congregational church. Muriel bowser will attend another event this evening. Nbc 4 Erika Gonzalez will run dont anticipate forum and mark sea graves a panelist. Its a chilly day. You can fema the winds already. You can see the wind too. Theres a flag near Union Station. Live view from storm team 4 camera. The flag flapping in a stiff wind. The winds have been gusting 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Well have these blustery winds throughout the morning. Sunshine breaking out by 8 00. Still only around 50 degrees by then. Then by noon time, well have lots of sunshine. Thats when the winds will be strongest. W
Degrees. A milder afternoon throughout much of the region. Right now wind gusts 20 to 30 miles per hour. Leesburg just had a gust of 33 miles per hour. Most of the gusts are under that, though, around 20 to 25 miles per hour. These blustery winds will be increasing by midday. Temperatures right now are rather chilly. 50 degrees. Shenandoah, into the mountains, some locations there in the 40s. Washington, 50. Montgomery, prince georges, fairfax, mid50s around the chesapeake bay. Lingering showers on the eastern shore. Those are beginning to pull away. Winds coming from this big area of low pressure rotating off long island and the new england coast. That will be with us throughout the day ahead. Next weather and traffic on the day ahead. When the winds finally diminish. Melissa is dealing with a new accident. Brandnew crash bw parkway southbound at 175. Police on the way to the crash. Sounds like a vehicle off the roadway right now. Not impeding anything at this point but it could be on