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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 talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and
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a sense of complacency that things will return back to normal, that our democracy is no longer under threat. that is not true. as you pointed out, there are forces in play that are purely self-serving that are looking to hold on to a an america that doesn t really exist anymore, a an america dominated by a white angelo saxon partisan population that wants to retain its own grip on power. there is nothing wrong with the country that has become more heterogenous, more of a melting pot and more representative and the power has shifted to represent that population. i think that s the fear that the republicans are preying on. we are not out of danger, but this country sund threat. i still have faith that we re going to continue to move towards that more perfect union. as a father and a son myself