and this is a picture of the lower east side where rose lived and worked. most of the people that she wrote about for the newspaper were shop assistants, street peddlers, on the lower east side she gathered her stories and then when she got to the office and she would write off reams and reams of copies every day. but one day in the summer of 1903, the editor gave her a different assignment. it was to go and interview somebody who worked in a settlement house. you settlement house where i think. these were places that were established in neighborhoods, usually the poorest neighborhoods of every major city throughout the northeast and they offered nutrition for children, they offered things like baths and showers, not just for kids before adults because for millions of people living in tenements and new york university's, their work bids and showers there. they offered the literacy classes and classes in many other things as well. although, settlement houses served a population was almost entirely immigrant and very poor. volunteers and staff settlement house

eleanor roosevelt for example at this time worked in a settlement house on the lower east side in new york. the settlement house where rose was sent to do her interview was called the university settlement on the lower east side not far from the newspaper office and here is the man she was asked to interview, volunteer working there, james graham phelps stokes. as you can tell from the name very different backgrounds, anglo-saxon protestant, his friends call him graham. he and rose fell in love. he came from the most different kind of background imaginable. here, for example, his parents summer home. a house in the berkshire mountains in western massachusetts. at the time it was built in the 1890s it was for a time the largest private home in the united states, 100 rooms and legend has it that one of graham's brothers who was in the class of 1896 yale sent a telegram to his mother saying he was bringing some fellows home for the weekend. his mother in the telegram, the apostrophe got dropped from the telegram and his mother replied many guests here has room for only 50. when not in th

eleanor roosevelt, for example, at this time worked in the settlement house on the lower east side in new york. the settlement house where rose was sent to do her interview was called the university settlement on the lower east side not very far from her newspaper's office, and here's the man she was asked to interview, a volunteer working there, james graham phelps stokes. and as you can tell from the name, very different background, anglo-saxon protestant. his friends called him graham, and he and rose fell in love. he came from the most different kind of background imagine bl. here, for example, is his parents' summer home -- [laughter] a house in the berkshire mountains in western massachusetts. at the time that-built in the 1890s -- it was built in the 18 is 90s, it was for a time the largest private home in the united states. 100 roomings. and legend has it that one of graham's brothers who was in the class of 1896 at yale sent a telegram to his mother saying that he was bringing some apostrophe '96 fellows home for the weekend. the telegram got -- the appositive to to my got dr

east side of new york. the house where rose was sent to do her interview with the university settlement on the lower east sideot very far from her newspaper's office and here is the man she was asked to interview, a volunteer working there, james graham phelps stokes. his friends called him grandm gm and they fell in love. they came from a different background imaginable. here is his parents summer home. the house and the brookshire mountains of massachusetts and at the time that it was built in the 1890s, it was for a time the largest project home in the united states. 100 rooms. legend has it one of his brothers in the class of 1896 i0 give it to send a telegram that they were bringing some of those home for the weekend. his mother, the' got dropped from the telegram in his mother replied many guests already here have room for only 50. [laughter] not in this home or later they had the family that lived in new york at madison avenue and 37th street building that today is part of the library. here are his parents. each of them came from a family with a substantial fortune that they combined. the families weal

purdue gray and george frederick bingham started the per do frederick company on manhattan's lower east side and 1952 it was sold to 2 other doctors raymond and moto. in the intervening years they expanded the company to other states moving their headquarters to stanford connecticut and changing the name to produce for produce a private family many of them are doctors many that are philanthropist. a lot of money billions but they are now i hear typical rich people yachts dating models things like that they're intellectual people they care about science cancer research on arts a 3rd brother dr arthur sackler revolutionized pharmaceutical advertising are there originated a blitz style marketing of drugs aimed at general practitioners through medical conventions as with well known doctor endorsements direct mailing and a sales force giving out free samples and perks. for the response you know wand and trust there's 963 campaign for the new tranquilizer value counted it as a safe non-addictive stress reliever women particularly were targeted to cure the every day stress of being a wife and mom v

jersey so that meant that he didn't grow up you know in an urban setting he didn't grow up in the lower east side he grew up with a kind of perhaps romantic view of american life because he always felt he was part of it. and you know and then he he went to the university of pennsylvania but dropped out let me just interject there because i love this ad he goes to the university of pens we have a racist reader i mean and the other thing about stone is that it was an age when a journalist was an intellectual imagine but he reads voraciously but most of the books were assigned. journalists a journalist was intellectual but a particular kind of intellectual you know a self-taught intellectual i mean the fact that he had been to college was held against him when he went to work at the philadelphia inquirer you know because it was a working class trade you know wasn't considered a profession it was something most journalists 1st of all you have to really remember that at the time journalism was a working class trade and it was divided so you had it was called an inside man who would sit at the desk tak

and puts in morris' place a much younger man, last name of delancy as in the street down on the lower east side. and what morris does to fight back iso he hires an immigrant named john peter singer, german immigrants, to start a newspaper. newspaper culture has already started in the 13 colonies. there are the franklin brothers have started a newspaper in boston. james and benjamin who later, much more famous than his older brother. every sniffing into town along the coast has one newspaper, at least one newspaper and out new york has two because the previous one was the official one. it would print all the official notices and laws in what not to. obviously it was in the pocket of whoever the governor was but now there is a rival one, the weekly journal and for a year and campaigns against governor cosby. ... against governor crosby they run bogus ads for one of cosby's supporters and cosby doesn't like it so finally on his own say-so he has peter zenger arrested come issues of the newspaper burn and does grant him a trial. so the supporters higher from out of town the best lawyer at the time

velazquez, eight-term congresswoman, represents new york's seventh district, brooklyn, manhattan's lower east side, small part of queens, too, actually. congresswoman, we know that you were diagnosed with a probable case of coronavirus yourself. before we get into what's happening in your district, how are you doing this morning? >> i'm doing great, thank god. yes, i fully recovered. it was a very scary experience, but i was one of the lucky ones. >> your district is made up of people of color prior mmarily. 70% of your district, as i understand it, are people of color. this virus has hit your district especially hard. why is that and what more can we be doing that we're not doing? >> basically what this pandemic has crystallized is the inequality that has long existed in our health care system and in the broader economy. the second that you're showing and discussing is heart broking. it exposes the reality of so many hard working people who work very hard every day to make ends meet, but who lack health care insurance, who cannot miss one single day of work. they don't have that luxury. that's th

into the inferno every day and here is what it sounded like tonight from just one rooftop on the lower east side of manhattan. [ cheers ] >> leading off our discussion tonight is dr. jah, the director of the harvard global health institute and ron klain. he's now co-host of the podcast "epidemic." there is interesting statistical developments in new york today. governor cuomo had to report the largest number of deaths on a single day yet, 779 but the total number of hospitalizations seems to be moving in a downward direction. how many days of consistent downward movement do you need to know where you are in relation to the peak? >> yeah, so good evening, lawrence, thanks for having me on. it was a hard day. a lot of americans died today and we are still at a phase where many more americans will be dying over the upcoming days and weeks so it will be a difficult period. in terms of the peak and have we hit it in new york, i think as your question sort of insinuates, you can't look at any one day. my sense is several days of consistent drops and i think we will feel more confident that we have pla

david: had a lunch with several friends and restaurants in the lower east side of washington, new york. the two friends from both engineers they both started talking about all of the builders at the brooklyn bridge hadn't known when they set out to create this unprecedented structure. in my first book had been about the johnstown flood which was really a study in human shortsightedness. someone with irresponsibility. there is a theme to the johnstown book which really it is perilous, certainly extremely dangerous always to assume that because people are in positions of responsibility, they are therefore behaving responsibly did that was the mistake that they were all making and johnstown. at the cost of more than 2000 lives. it was not an act of god, it was the fault of human beings. what happens in life, and certainly happens in publishing, you very quickly typecast after the book came out, had two publishers approached me and wanted me to do a book about chicago fire and the other 11 me to do a book about the san francisco earthquake. and at the age of about 35, was being casted as b

east bay, but 20% chance at the most. dry weekend, but on the cool side, 2 to 4 degrees lower for april. maybe 1/100th of an inch of rain, generally damp, but nothing you would call actual rain. temperatures all over the place. 56 degrees in san francisco, 60 degrees right now in oakland, but 70 in concord, so not everyone has cooled off as dramatically. similar temperatures for tomorrow. start off like this morning , 50s in a few locations. dipping down into the 40s. on shore breeze is definitely still going to be with us throughout the day on friday, gusting up to the afternoon. especially push that cooler air a little bit farther inland than the conditions we had today. temperatures either near average for inland locations or maybe four or five degrees below average around the bay and coast, but temperatures mostly topping out in the 50s and 60s, but the warmest spots near 70 degrees and your best chance is inland south bay and east bay. otherwise mid to upper 60s for the trivalley and low 60s around the bay and low to mid- 60s for the north bay. that warmer weather isn't going to kic

east san jose. maybe lower 80s there. the fog is on the coast, and that's play nothing to 50s on the temperatures. mild ands for some. wood side is 50s. it's running pretty warm. there's a ke sent breeze up there and 25 to 30 miles per hour. then northwest at 25. 34 in tahoe and 5 5 and crescent city up to 52. the system is heading north. again, the seattle and portland is getting the rain. the high pressure system is going get the fog near the coast. that's going to warm the inland temperatures up. upper 70s and 80s inland. we have the low clouds in place. they're going burn off and then it's a little bit cooler and then easing back in to the ridge of the high pressure and then back to warmer next week. >> all right. thank you, steve. >>> time is 5:12. fewer people are staying home. how much are you going to have to pay in tolls today no matter when you drive across the bridge. >>> plus, the plans being drawn up now at san jose state for the fall semester. >>> here is pay live look on the traffic. we're keeping an eye on the interstate 880 and moving along. sal is watching that. he is also getting some music together. he has

to lower the height of the lower floor by 3.7 inches, and a setback against the neighbor to the west to reduce shutter impacts and reducing the side-facing windows to the east as well, to reduce privacy impacts. additionally the deck at the second floor has been reduced indepth, and that is in your packet as the latest, dated, i believe, february 27th. therefore staff has found that the d.r. requests' concerns regarding scale and character are not extraordinary or exceptional, and recommends not taking d.r. this concludes my presentation, and i am ready to share my screen with the first d.r. request. thank you. >> the first d. r. requestherequester is prepared o make their presentation. you will have five minutes. and as soon as mr. winslow shares this screen, we'll prompt you. >> just to coordinate, my first d.r. requestor is mr. temo. are you cud up and ready to go? >> yes, i am. >> i'm not on video, and the video we can see is a one-minute delay, so i'm going to rely on you to put the slides up as asked for. >> correct. we're going to share your presentation to the public facing, as soon as mr. winslow is able to. >> thank you. >> and we will notify you