Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
And so we also want to install a few billard table to hold some local billard tournaments and so nothing too extreme and so you will hop to approve that. Do you feel like you leave at this commission . I do. Just checking. Any commissioner comments or questions . No. All right, are there any police that would like to speak to this permit . Officer methias . Central station and just to voice our support for the applicant. And it is the things that we have been meeting with them and also, just talking about the diversity on broad way and not having the same Business Plan for every single business all along the broad way and so we are looking forward to this. And the only thing that we asked and we talked to ronnie lau about it, was as far as the Amusement Games and the video games that there not be any poke and her gambling machines and he was in complete agreement on that. And so we are at Central Station is recommending approval. Great, thank you. Any Public Comment about this permit a
Should call the police until. I am originally from new york and i have been here for 12 years, i have no idea a club was allowed to be this loud and i have gone to clubs in queens and los angeles and all over this country and people are like screaming and you know, downing liquor and then literally watching them get in the car and drive off like totally smashed. I have called the police a few times to be honest, and at first i didnt. When they opened, i am like middle aged and weird and i am one of those people. But that is actually not it at all. It is actually a quiet street that we are on. We are only 2 blocks straight up from here, we are not like in the tenderloin, i tell the people that and that is important because on the corner where noble is, the Embassy Hotel, because it is a very neighborhoody, and some of the tourists and a lot of the tourists from europe and a lot of them from france and could i help you with something and you see them with the map and the coffee shop was
Have been meeting with them and also, just talking about the diversity on broad way and not having the same Business Plan for every single business all along the broad way and so we are looking forward to this. And the only thing that we asked and we talked to ronnie lau about it, was as far as the Amusement Games and the video games that there not be any poke and her gambling machines and he was in complete agreement on that. And so we are at Central Station is recommending approval. Great, thank you. Any Public Comment about this permit application . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . I move to approve. Second. All right. On the motion to approve. Commissioner akers . Aye. Commissioner hyde. Aye. Commissioner joseph. Aye. Commissioner campagnoli. Aye. And tan. Aye. Could you signal steve, someone . And i think that someone will do it. Lets just move on. And so, for the next applicant is sycamore tim ryan who would like to amend his limited Live Performance permit.
Important because on the corner where noble is, the Embassy Hotel, because it is a very neighborhoody, and some of the tourists and a lot of the tourists from europe and a lot of them from france and could i help you with something and you see them with the map and the coffee shop was there and they asked me about noble. And they asked them, and they asked why is this club so loud . I dont know i have nothing to do about that. But they complain to me. Next door to that is a homeless shelter and i have talked to the people there and they dont want to say anything because they feel very strange to say anything because it is a transitional housing for family and they dont want to rock anybodys boat. But, Everybody Knows about noble, i mean it wakes you up. For example when my birthday is on a tuesday i went out on a saturday afternoon and i got home and i was asleep by ten or eleven. Noble woke me up even though i had been drinking that is how loud the people are. I mean, they scream. I w