people to come here and walk through the streets and i remember dreaming of being here standing up and talking about a book in front of this. the incredible audiences at this event. and so it s a great thrill to be here. we re talking about new york. i think it was built in. fact and fiction, but you all you ve got is the fact people now. so we ll talk about new york history for a little while, and i want to tell you first the story about the making of the new york that we know today. this is at the end of the 19th century in the early 20th century. the period that i describe in my book is the period when skyscrapers first began rising over the floor and five story tenement. buildings of new york city the time when the population of new york triples from one and a half million to four and a half or five million people in the span of a single generation. it s the time when an airplane first buzzes over. the new york harbor with wilbur wright at the controls. the time of the fi
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