jackson,rofessors, ken mike wallace, people like that, hillary ballin. that made it so fascinating, and reading things. i read the iconography of manhattan island, six volumes. great way to delay having to write the book. and just stumbling across things about new york that i never knew , factoids. elizabeth jennings -- i had never heard of this woman and her encounter with the 3rd avenue trolley. so many stories like this, so many things about new york history that i uncovered and discovered that kids ought to be learning about, and that i tried to put in this book to make it for school kids, -- make it interesting for school kids, for new yorkers and non-new yorkers alike. i hope it is fun to read. >> are there any gears in the wax museum that you feel should or should not be there? >> i do not know. i have not been to the wax museum. the hardest thing to choose was actually food items. i have to admit, here i exercised author's prerogative. i left out heats up, because they did not -- left out pizza, because i did not feel pizza was a new york thing.