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Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organizat...

And it is great to be back here all the time. A few years ago, after agreeing to write a book celebrating the centennial of Grand Central terminal, i casually suggested an audacious but catchy subtitle, how a train station transformed america. And almost immediately i was struck by second thoughts. Individuals and events shape history, but could a single building . Luckily, Grand Centrals 100 year imprint on commerce and culture, its pivotal role in urban development, and codifying landmark and air rights, in shifting manhattans Cultural Center of gravity from downtown in midtownstep manhattan...

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A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.