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letter is is the these are the letters he sent me. we still have grand central terminal. we came close to not having it. fortunately it was saved. i will answer any questions you might have. book and metthis with my colleagues at grand central publishing we came up with the title, grand central how a train station transformed america. i went home and said did it? that is an ambitious agenda to live up to. i realized that it easily did that. wasmore i researched, this a transformative place. stop and think if you go anywhere in the world and say this place is like grand central station, everybody knows what you are talking about, a metaphor for frenzy, it allpeople recognize over. grand central has been the side homecomings,ands, send offs, the target of nazi saboteurs. passengers have included presidents, kids left for summer camp, and soldiers who went to war. everyone has a favorite grand central moment. ben she were chronicled the suburban commuter, who said it is ....
today is monday april 11th. here is bill evans in the exclusive accuweather forecast. temperatures are mild. looking at 45 degrees. 46jfk. close to the mid 40s mark. 41 northern jersey. sprinks are around. the surface reports doesn t show much of this getting to the ground. up the hudson river valley. a sprinkle or a shower, late today, take the umbrella, the temperatures get in to the upper 50s today, great, finally getting to 60 degrees this week. lewe will talk about that next. they cleared that away, good unauthorized tractor trailer cleared, you may see residual delays there. to the island over on the northern state east, west berry, an accident on the shoulder. 95 north, connecticut up towards 29 and bridgeport. port washington branch, se ridge yule delays because residual delays. transit metro on time, outside to the web cam, a look at the fdr drive south, towards the 70, northbound in the 60s, earlier problems cleared. alternate side in effect. back over to ....
might have. when i began this book and met with my colleagues at grand central publishing we came up with the title, grand central how a train station transformed america. then i went home and said did it? that is an ambitious agenda to have to live up to. i realized that it easily did that. the more i researched the book, the more i realized this was a transformative place. stop and think if you go anywhere in the world and say this place is like grand central station, everybody knows what you are talking about. it is a metaphor for frenzy, chaos, people recognize it all over. grand central has been the side of ransom demands, homecomings, hope filled send offs, the target of nazi saboteurs, terrorist bombs. passengers have included presidents, kids left for summer camp, and soldiers who went to war. everyone has a favorite grand central moment. ben cheever whose father chronicled the suburban commuter, said it is as inviting as a rich person s house with the doors ....
i had to wait a long time for this. i was at basic training in fort jackson. the the obviously here easily, and and the cadre and the mess talking about the restraints that the personnel of bjl. and lbj and the restraints that he was under was the incremental buildup that johnson put him through and the administration and i don t think you spoke much about it and just an observation of my own that the only thing i saw later on that what really worked that scared the bejeaners was a linebacker one and two. that got them, you know, to the to negotiate with us. that s an important point, i think, that clearly west moreland is dealing with the with the theory of graduated pressure which is which kind of takes hold in the national security establishment. this idea that we can determine how much pressure to ratchet up or ratchet back and eventually hanoi will realize that it can t win this long war because we have the ability to either ratchet up or ratchet back ....
about, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than power point as a term. i m not good at power point. it s not that i m a luddite. i m just not good at technology. i m just a technological idiot. well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. the original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and it s an untold story actually. it s been told in bits and pieces, but it s never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban back ....