Have a bone in my body, i will not fail my son. I promise him im going to fight stand for him and speak for him because he is no longer there to speak for himself. This is something we demand. We paid a horrible price to be here. [indiscernible] that eric garner was killed. I am so sorry for that. Michael brown, im sorry that it has to end like this. But this is not the end because of the sea of people who said we who stood up and said we need justice. We cannot close the book. We have to carry on until justice for all, equal justice for all the victims. Despite where you are coming from. Whether sean bell or leslie work or gwen, we are all here. Please do not forget us. Dont forget that our sons died. So that we can open up the book and review what is happening, so that we can open up conversation around the nation, so that we can Start Building communities, community relations, and finally, when that happens, when we have strong laws, good cops policing our neighborhoods, then we can
Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That story is the rise the sudden an
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Grand Central terminal celebrate its 100th birthday this month. It is a new new york icon with 750,000 people passing through every day. Tom wolf once wrote, every big city has a railroad station with the grand, to the point of glorious, classical architecture, but the grandest, mauve glorious of all by far was Grand Central station. In the 1970s, it was threatened with destruction. In the 1980s, it fell into disrepair. Now Grand Central is stronger than ever. He were is a look behind the scenes. Grand central is a place with a lot of secrets. One of them is hidden in plain sight its room behind tiffany clock, which overlooks park avenue. Today we go to places the public is never allowed to see, and we meet the characters who make sure the trains run on time. Our first stop takes us from the highest point in Grand Central to the lowest. N42 is the teenest basement in manhattan, and it provides the direct current which powers
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Grand Central terminal celebrate its 100th birthday this month. It is a new new york icon with 750,000 people passing through every day. Tom wolf once wrote, every big city has a railroad station with the grand, to the point of glorious, classical architecture, but the grandest, mauve glorious of all by far was Grand Central station. In the 1970s, it was threatened with destruction. In the 1980s, it fell into disrepair. Now Grand Central is stronger than ever. He were is a look behind the scenes. Grand central is a place with a lot of secrets. One of them is hidden in plain sight its room behind tiffany clock, which overlooks park avenue. Today we go to places the public is never allowed to see, and we meet the characters who make sure the trains run on time. Our first stop takes us from the highest point in Grand Central to the lowest. N42 is the teenest basement in manhattan, and it provides the direct current which powers
Step aboard the Catskill Mountain Railroad in Kingston, New York, for a nostalgic journey through time, tracing back to its roots in the 19th century and witnessing the dedication to preserving history.