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And the doctor was pretty hopeful for that one either have the high fema. But he was still pretty upset, obviously that he had lost everything except his legs. So he was with us at least two weeks, which is usually the 14 days is usually the amount of time that they, that someone that seriously injured would be with us. And every day we would sit down and write a letter to his newlywed wife and then, his wife did get some letters through to him. So we would sit and read it to him and then we would sit and write some more letters for him. He was finally medevacs to japan. Then he ended up back ...

That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the lib...

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 tal...

Overnight. Reporter we just heard from police, and the person who was stabbed has died, and we believed a second person was side. There was an overnight celebration here on Grand Army Plaza. A lot of revelers who have been out here all night leading up to the west indian day parade here, and we have seen a Large Police Presence here respond together stabbing here overnight, about 2 00 this morning. Most of the people here say people have been calm and well behaved, looking forward to the festivities this morning, take a listen. Its fun. Reporter what are you looking forward to the most . Every...