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. >> central park, the metropolitan museum of art, the american museum of natural history. green would be largely responsible for creating the bronx zoo, the new york public library. >> there's very little green doesn't touch during new york's gilded age. in 1871, when city coffers are almost bankrupt, he becomes the city's comptroller. >> andrew green needed to be escorted by a ring of mounted policemen as he was approaching the comptroller's office on his first day of work. and this was a blood sport in this era. >> green exposes the shenanigans of new york's corrupt democratic machine, known as tammany hall, and helps send the city's notorious boss, william tweed, off to prison. oh, and one other little achievement... >> it was green's efforts to get new york to expand beyond the borders of manhattan island and to annex the municipalities around new york harbor, which included the city of brooklyn, and make that all one giant metropolis. >> so how could his own family 100 years later not know all about him? could it have anything to do with the way green died? that's nex

a gallery in this world-famous museum, the metropolitan museum of art.oposed to beth before, but never like this. >> he pulls this ring out, gets on his knees, you know, and proposed to her again. and she says i was not -- she didn't feel safe enough to say no. she knew she was in a dangerous situation so she said to him, i need more time. >> she was, like, so upset because he said, you know, it's now or never. >> and her response to him was? >> then it has to be never. these are words right out of beth's mouth. >> beth rushed out of the museum. toolan pursued her. >> he was screaming, i'm going to go get drunk with my friends. she was just going to go back, get her stuff, get out. he in the last minute hopped in the cab with her, they ended up back at his apartment. >> at some point that night, beth called her brother. in retrospect, he says, she sounded terrified. >> her words were very measured. she was talking very slowly and enunciating very clearly. unlike her. and she kept saying, i'm here with tom in the city and we're trying to work things out.

obama's committee on the arts and humanities, as trustee as the art institution of chicago, san francisco museum of modern art, metropolitanf the getty trust and through her work on countless other bodies, pamela has used her seat at the table to call on our most distinguished institutions to diversify their collections. so i want to thank you for tirelessly advocating on behalf of african american artists and thank you for your work to ensure that we all have access to a knowledge of their incredible constitutions. thank you, pamela. [applause] thank you, supervisor. it's an honor to receive this marvelous accommodations. in these challenging times, i think we are all keenly aware that leadership matters. so i have to take a moment to thank this board of supervisors for tirelessly working to create a city that is tolerant, inclusive, and fosters creativity. i appreciate your collective acknowledgment that the arts matter. why do they matter? because they remind us of our humanity, they remind us of the things that they have in common that we have in common rather than those things that separate us. and the arts serve as a

obama's committee on the arts and humanities, as trustee as the art institution of chicago, san francisco museum of modern art, metropolitanf the getty trust and through her work on countless other bodies, pamela has used her seat at the table to call on our most distinguished institutions to diversify their collections. so i want to thank you for tirelessly advocating on behalf of african american artists and thank you for your work to ensure that we all have access to a knowledge of their incredible constitutions. thank you, pamela. [applause] thank you, supervisor. it's an honor to receive this marvelous accommodations. in these challenging times, i think we are all keenly aware that leadership matters. so i have to take a moment to thank this board of supervisors for tirelessly working to create a city that is tolerant, inclusive, and fosters creativity. i appreciate your collective acknowledgment that the arts matter. why do they matter? because they remind us of our humanity, they remind us of the things that they have in common that we have in common rather than those things that separate us. and the arts serve as a