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[applause] jessica hello, i am Vice President on the board and the event chair. Welcome to everybody. We are excited and honored to have an illustrious panel of investigative journalists today. This is ethics week at the society of professional journalists, which is the National Version of the Deadline Club, which is the new york chapter. There is a lot going on in freedom of information, it is the 50th anniversary of the freedom of information act. One thing our National Society is proud of and we think is important is our Legal Defense fund just gave a 10,000 grant to a Nonprofit Organizatio...

Robbins, legendary new york reporter, now Investigative Reporter and residents here and a finalist for Pulitzer Prize investigative reporting last week, so congratulations. And we have Jessica Hughes men, who is a reporter for the teachers project. Obviously focusing on education. And a lot of fun this last year with the City Department of education, which he will talk about later on. , whoe have Justin Elliott has done amazing work specifically on spending issues at the red cross, which he will talk about tonight as well. I want to thank the panelists for agreeing to do this, i promise it won...

Festival. Found that [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the mac in morning. [inaudible] welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Come on, that is pretty funny. Its too early. The locals that are 100,000 plus graduates since we opened our doors widely 115 years ago know that it the only law school in brooklyn. But we had the best law school and the biggest borough in the most drivers 50 great u. S. A. , so theyve got that going for us. Weve got a very special edition and were very proud of what we are doing here in producing new lawyers to serve the...

This took place at the museum of the city of new york and is a little over an hour. To introduce John Tauranac could take the entire evening. John writes on new york architectural history. His books include many subjects including the Empire State Building. His other books include new york from the air, with great aerial photography. Other books include in central new york. There are others. John teaches at nyus school of professional studies. This spring his course is designed an architecture of public transportation. He does tors for the city museum. We welcome and enjoy his tors. His First ...

And this building went up on its site. Whether the Empire State Bank had an office in it, i dont know. Whether they sponsored it, i dont know. But it was called the Empire State Building. Now, today, it was originally an office, a loft building. Today, it is an apartment house. It does have sort of update relationship to the Empire State Building. If you think about superlatives, the architects of these buildings of this building was and they were influenced by the columbian exposition in chicago. Their two most famous buildings were on 6th avenue. They designed the Cooper Department store whi...