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
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He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and
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But, first, tragedy in the bronx after fire claims the lives of two young sisters. Now police are questioning whether the children were left alone when the flames broke out. Cbs 2s Janelle Burrell has more now from clairmont. Reporter it was inside this charred, gutted thirdfloor apartment in the butler houses where neighbors first spotted the fire just before 7 00 p. M. Wednesday, the toddler sisters were trapped, surrounded by flames and thick smoke. So as we looked out, we saw the a. C. , it burst into flames right here out the window. Reporter despite their best effort, the conditions made it im efforts, the conditions made it impossible to reach 2 yearold an 18yearold aman a jabbi we heard kids crying, but it was too black, we couldnt breathe. Reporter the family next door couldnt escape either, putting wet towels underneath their door until help arrived. When i opened the door, i saw a whole bunch of black smoke and i closed the door back. Reporter firefighters eventually breakin