york city. newk would not have become the world-class capital of the world that it is today without its subway system, because it allowed the city to expand and to develop. as you built the subway system you got more real estate, so the city was able to create beautiful residential neighborhoods, and people had a way to get into our two central business districts in order to get to work. so without the subway system you couldn't have skyscrapers, you couldn't have a concentration of culture and business that you have in new york city without the subway. and so to look at these old cars and to see how basic technology was, but how based on the neighborhood it was, is a really, i think, heartwarming aspect of what we do here. the subway, the buses, the trains that we take are part of our lives, part of our neighborhoods, they're part of the fabric of what it means to live in an urban environment. and it's a very important way also to teach people about sustainability. if you're taking a train or bus,

what is new york city all about? how are we going to build a subway system? topographical and geographical conditions in new york city that we have to consider in order to be able to build a subway system. so there's a topographical map of new york showing you a lot of hills and cliffs in upper manhattan. in the middle part of manhattan flat. but new york is a city of islands. so if you're going to connect together se islands with a subway system, you have to do a lot of underwater tunnelling. are three methods of building the subway system that become prominent. one, is blasting through rock. one is doing underwater tunnelling to get between the is nds of manhattan -- this an image of the sand hog who has had to go underneath water, live compressed air, terrible conditions. possibly contracting the bends putting his health at great risk to a tunnel underneath the rivers of new york city. other method of subway construction was called cut and cover. digging cally entailed a trench in the street, covering t over with wooden planks, building a concrete tube whic

that new york city made, including the subway system. new york city has been building water supply infrastructure continuously for 20 years. >> why is that necessary? >> it has a population growth exceeding expectations. >> to quench the thirst, new aqueducts. >> at one point there were 20,000 people deployed in the construction of the systems, thousands of engineers deployed for the cities of new york. the rain captured was pure fied as it passed through the forest and reservoirs. by the 1930s the city was again running out of water. they built the delaware aqueduct, a deep rock tunnel delivering up to 850 million gallons of water from new york city to the we were mountains. >> finished in 1945, the delaware aqueduct became the longest tunnel in the world. >> it was the biggest and best that the world had seen. new york city moved water collection and the science of hydrology to a before. >> reporter: as new york was more dependent on the aqueduct residents from an upstate town notices something odd. >> the water was up to here. there wa

city. tisch has worked closely with the past mayors to improve new york city's gritty image. elped kick off the new york times square makeover. he was instrumental in the campaign to bring tourists back after 9/11. so far, his efforts seem to be working. new york had 54 million visitors in 2013. the regency sold out for super bowl weekend about a month before it even opened. it is not just about keeping hotels full. tisch says tourism is critical for the new york economy. >> what is it really about? >> it is about the jobs. it's about good jobs. it is about the ability for visitors to come and spend money so we that can hire more new yorkers. if you look in new york city alone, 330,000 people are making a living in some aspect of travel and tourism. we are also reaching out to the right visitors. that international traveler is extremely important. the international traveler stays longer and spends more money here. >> since 1970, the regency has been home to the power breakfast. business leaders and politicians would convene every morning over coffee to get their day started. >

a city like toronto and new york will have a different best use of that money than the twin cities.here we--go ahead. >> go ahead. >> we could take that $1 billion and we could have been using it to improve bus service that's going to serve 80% of the transit riders instead of light-rail which serves 20% of the transit riders. an we could serve the whole network and all the people using transit instead of a small fraction of them. it's a question of how you allocate your resources. now the green line is not a bad line. it's the best that the twin cities is going to build, but there are alternate uses of the money that is important to think about how we use those resources and that is never asked in a systemic way. >> go there are obviously better returns on investment, in terms of moving people around, why are things like light-rail get invested in? >> i think there is a culture issue here. you have a set of people who are making decision who is are not transit riders bid a large. you have planners and policymakers who drive to work and they usually drive to work in a downtown offic

new york city policy center at new york city's hunter college. we spoke and i asked her about the changes she is seeing now food. >> if you look at what happened to the value of the minimum wage over the years, you get a little insight into that. it is, indeed, a lot of the people who work in the food industry who are most impacted by the low - the low wages, and the tipped minimum wages will blow the regular minimum wage. if we go back to 1968 and look at the minimum wage then, if you updated that for inflation, it would be at 10:90. >> and the federal government, the administration is proposing 10 and a quarter, coming up against a deal of resistance from some parties. let talk about food insecurity. what does that mean. you earn income, but you don't know if you have enough money to put food on the table. >> it's experimental. it asked people if they have gone without meals, if they reduced the size of their meals. it's measured through a set of questions. what it gets at are people who can't count on feeding their families on a regular basis.

right across the river from new york city we have a set of cities in new jersey where the best preschool on the planet begins at age three. for every child in 31 cities. people come from all over the world to look at this, and we look at how those kids are doing in fifth grade, actually. they're doing much better because they went to preschool. what is interesting about new york is that they're setting up to do the same kinds of things. small classes. good teachers and a continuous improvement process. so this research piece while important, it's not just about figuring out what works and doesn't work to inform science. it's about having a coach that works with the teacher, continuous improvement process so that those classrooms in new york are getting better every day year after year, and i believe the city set up a process to make that happen. >> connor williams, won't you just get gaps of a different kind if everybody troops into classrooms just starting earlier. that the social capitol, the superior resources that some families bring to bear will just be seen in other ways now even t

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east village in new york city, pretty vocal demonstration. i'm going opause for just a second so you can hear the chants going on in the east village of new york city. >> so you can imagine, you can imagine this is a protest that is encompassing a couple of things. the death of eric garner on stat staten island, a couple of weeks ago, the result of what appears to be a choke hold, you can imagine the frustration and age are over that set of circumstances, needing into this this, and august 9th, the shooting death of michael brown. fueling the demonstration in new york city. i want to show you what's going on in oakland, california, my understanding it was quiet a few moments ago but now it's starting to pick up mowmentd and intensity. we understand that hundreds have gathered in oakland, we are going to continue to follow developments on west florison avenue. this is flash poi point ferguso, this is al jazeera america. >> violence grips an american suburb. a community in crisis. a deep racial divide. a wall of silence in missouri. still, so ma

is that an kpachl we can follow here in new york city? >> absolutely. police officer black and white, police officer white gunned down in the park. a hero to every new york city because to this day, he'll speak to the police officer and educate us. he'll speak to the children in the community and educate them. the reality is it could be any one of us that get the tap on the shoulder and say it's your time. >> it's shocking that educators and educators union that teachers union in new york city are supporting this rally tomorrow. what is that about? >> disgraceful. you're teaching your children not to respect new york city police officers. new york city teachers and police officers work hand and hand. when there's a problem in the school, they dial 9-1-1 and police officers shows up. on top of that, to us many teachers are family. our children become teachers and police officers. it's wrong for their union to put a separation there. >> thank you for being had with us this morning. >> thank you. >>> coming up special needs kids forced to sort through the g

the artistic director for the new york city -- not the new york city ballet.let teach whir i was taking it. that's what got me into my style in the first place and getting into ballet a little bit. she saw the elegance alreadied grace in my style already and saw all of the comparens are can compare to ballet. i'm going the same thing just to different music. done to classical music, people seem to think it's ballet. i just enjoy being on my toes. i've never put on a pair of point shoes in my life. >> your family, still back in memphis? >> yes, they are. >> how are they processing all of this exposure? >> for example, my mom, she's probably watches this right now. how ya doing, mom? she's like my number one fan on -- social media of all sorts. you know? and. >> yeah. >> my family, they love it. they just love what i'm doing. they're really proud of me. they're proud that i kept it going. no matter how many times my mom told me to stop dancing in the kitchen. and, you know? [ laughter ] >> while she's cooking. they all know now it was worth it in the end, so. >>

in new york city, a majority ofples on the beat are black, latino or asian but it's still minorities are overwhelmingly targeted. >> here in mainly black bedford, new york, police issued 8,200 tickets for riding a bike on the sidewalk which in 2008, compared to 32 issued in nearby white park slope. >> watchdog groups argue the main problem isn't police diversity. >> diversity will probably help with better policing but won't make a significant difference. in new york city, for example, whether it's a white cop or a cop of color, that officer has to get with the program and that program in new york city is to focus on low-income communities of color and petty infraction. it results in harassment and unnecessary punishments. >> 86% of those arrested in new york for miss demeanors in the first six months of this year were black. activists allege police officers view minorities as the easiest way to meet arrest quotas. communities view the police as unpredictable, armed occupiers. >> 30%, close to that population. >> even the executive director of the organization representing the black o

very end of last year, but primarily humpbacks are the ones that rerecord off of the waters of new york city. these whales can be hit by ships, and the entrance of new york harbor is a very busy place. in fact, some of the whales that we have been able to identify have been identified precisely because they do have prop marks on the back of their bodies. whales that we have seen have been in and around boats and seem very much aware of their presence and how to avoid them. so rather than thinking of whale watching only taking place in the northern waters of maine and massachusetts, or alaska, people now have the opportunity to see these animals in our own backyard here in new york. >> at least 49 whales have been spotted swimming around new york city just this summer. >>> sad news to report tonight. the associated press has reported that legendary actress, lauren bacal has died. she was known for her smoky voice and the look. she starred opposite in humphrey bogart in to have and have not. bogart fell for her on the set. they were married after the film, and they were together until bogart d

we'll see you soon soon. >>> today thousands of people marched in new york city to protest the death ric garner the father of six died after a police officer allegedly put him in a fatal choke hold while placing hum under arrest. cbs news correspondent jericka duncan has all the details. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> what do we want. >> justice. protesters in staten island showed their grief and anger at the we will not go back march. >> we're out here supporting those who have lost their lives at the hands of ignorance. >> reporter: this cell phone video ignited outrage when a police officer used a choke hold to subdue eric garner. he died a an hour later. the new york city medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. garner's wife broke down as protesters passed sidewalk where the incident happened. >> i'm hoping that this will, you know, bring justice for my son. that's all we're asking for is justice. >> reporter: protesters walked past the district attorney's office which has agreed to present the garner case to a grand jury for consideration of criminal charges. police chok

new york city businesses are closing up shop ahead of our shop and anti police protest. tudio. good to see you. have not seen you since you were running for governor last time around. the protests this weekend, we were talking about it earlier and michele. this man died in police custody. what do you make of this move? we will close down before the protest starts. >> well, these people are trying to agitate and disrupted by warning businesses and getting them all upset over this thing. >> what is sharpton doing? what i you doing over there on a business street in the middle of a business day organizing 3,000 people to walk down the street. connell: i'm sure his point would be, well, that is where it happened, s.i. >> find a nice part for yourself. i am sure they have nice parks. that would be really nice. find your followers and have fun. you are disrupting the businesses. connell: would you do that? you know what, not even going to take the chance. >> why would you. someone throw a rock through your front window. he knows exactly what he's doing. in many senses the press

although he has been recently house-hunting in new york city. ederick said that dicaprio visited one of his team's listing, a new construction downtown. >> i want to designing in very specific for someone superduper wealthy. the roof is for the penthouse only. >> reporter: those who are not household names do not get the red carpet rollout. potential buyers are screened before they can tour. >> i said no to multiple people who wanted to see houses. and generally speaking, we don't feel they qualify. i had another client who wanted to live next door to sylvester stallone. i called up sly and he said he had a stalker. and we were able to cancel it. >> reporter: have you ever been taken advantage of? >> it's nothing for us to ask for bank statements, letters from accountants to verify there's money in their account. it's standard at this price point. >> reporter: it's a high-intensity lifestyle, selling these high-end homes. >> everything must be perfect. >> reporter: where a multimillion-dollar deal can hang on a tiny detail. but if all goes well a

city. >> why? what about the free market? if you can afford to buy in new york city, fine. if you can't, you can't. it's harsh, but -- >> we have a free market in new york city. we see products across the board, large, small. what's happening hyperluxury because of the cost of land acquisition, what most developers are telling us in order to return a profit on the buildings i've got to build hyperluxury product. 15, 20, 80 million dollar product, that is a very, very limited audience as you can imagine. what we're finding is the best solutions are projects that are city, state and private development partnerships. great development would be gotham west on the west side of manhattan, it took a decade to get it off the ground. gerri:. >> it's a little rough neighborhood. >> former industrial neighborhood. >> little down and dirty. >> exactly. people like to live in lots of different neighborhoods. with the hyperluxury product, it can give the impression there is nothing affordable for family buyers, lower income buyers, there is the product in new york city. it's hard to compa

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the focus of that was new york city. s primary residence for the second half of his lifetime was just outside new york city in a little town called west orange, new jersey. he arrived in 1885 and it was a very cold winter. he stopped first in jacksonville and insane augustine. -- and in saint augustine. he built a home for himself and he built a home for his partner. they remained partners for a few years and then had their differences in edison bought his partner some. two mirror image homes. his interest in plants began when he first arrived here. he was looking for a plant filament that could be used in the lightbulb and that was bamboo. we have several dozen varieties of bamboo on the property now. he loved palm trees. .e have 100 variety of palms he brought the royal palm to fort myers. the reason why this land was so important was that it cost the u.s. government to come forward with what was called the patent law. if you invented something with plants and it was a process that was worthy of patenting, it was issued

each inmate costs new york city about $47,000 a year to house and feed. many are awaiting the outcome of their cases or transfer to a state prison. >> arthur damian, step up. bring all your property with you. take your hat off. >> the routine is much the same as it was five years earlier when we visited rikers. men habitually in trouble with the law, cycling in and out. we met damian arthur in 1999 on his fifth visit to rikers. >> you get used to it after a while. once they get back in, you know your surroundings. you feel more comfortable after a while. >> what will now happen is that we will go through our strip search procedure. >> you can't have the boots here. what size you wear? >> 8 1/2. >> guess what, 10 is going to be your lucky number. >> we will take his other property, secure it, his civilian attire, until he's discharged from the facility. in the meantime, he will wear a green uniform throughout his stay in this facility. and that way, we can easily identify him. >> once an inmate is admitted, if he's not considered violent, he shares a dormi

and particularly in new york city, we have great hospitals. could this thing ever -- i know it sounds crazy, but they're talking about. >> everyone in the next city was all over him. >> they are talking about it. >> but one of the things i wonder about here is where this goes. our own health officials don't have a completely unblemished record when it comes to dealing with this stuff. do you have confidence that in this country if everything hits the fan, they're ready for it? is. >> i don't have confidence whatsoever. because viruses in general, now there may be exceptions, are untreatable. and incurable. there are some that are -- that can be treated and restrained and contained. but in general, viruses do, as you mentioned at the top, mut e mutate. in general, they are incurable. i'm extremely worried about it. and i don't know -- i'm very glad that there's so much confidence in hospitals in new york city. >> i can only tell you what people are telling me. >> right. fwu i respectfully suggest to you that viruses are extremely tricky little

you spent a lot of time as new york city commissioner makes sure this city was prepared post-9/11, arew? >> i think we're doing everything we reasonably can do to protect new york and other big cities as well. there are no guarantees. we know that thousands of people have gone to syria, have learned a trade craft and have good paper, ability to travel, use passport. >> american passports in cases. >> american and european passports. so it certainly raises the concern level as far as an attack here. >> we always think about it and having the conversation in new york and you were the police commissioner in new york. i think you brought up this, other places think about it as well. here's what the governor of texas rick perry had to say about borders being insecure. >> i think there's the obvious great concern that because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across, that individuals from isis or other terrorist states could be, and i think, is a very real possibility that they may have already used that. >> is it

the taney dragons are in new york city to appear on the "today" show. matt delucia is live at 30 rock for thus morning. you followed the amazing run all the way from williamsport to new york now. >> reporter: yes, chris, the taney dragons just arrived here a few minutes ago, they're here on the plaza at 30 rock getting ready for their appearance on the "today" show. it's still early. they just woke up. they have a lot of energy. they just got off their big run at the little league world series and one of the star pitchers, right here, mo'ne davis. how exciting has all this attention been for you? >> it's been very exciting. i wasn't really prepared for it but i mean, as the week went by i started getting used to it a little bit. >> reporter: you finished playing at the little league world series. now you're getting ready for all these tv shows. how have you been preparing for this? >> just be calm. >> reporter: are you excited to meet matt lauer. >> yes. >> reporter: we also have leyland lotts here. how excites hag this been? >> it's been quite a journe

secretary of commerce and the new york city mayor michael bloomberg and the majority owner of liberty lp, the parent company of bloomberg news -- of bloomberg lp, the parent company of liberty news. coming up next take a look at 2.5it ethics city's newest billion dollar casino has declared bankruptcy twice in the past two years -- why atlantic city's newest $2.5 billion casino has declared bankruptcy twice in the past two years. ♪ >> this is "taking stock your co--- taking stock." it cost over two point $5 billion to build and it has declared bankruptcy twice and asked to years. -- cost over two point $5 billion to build and it has $2.5red bank -- over billion to build and it has declared bankruptcy twice. we are joined from princeton new jersey. he has studied atlantic city gambling. .e joins us via skype i want you to lay out the landscape. a what is the economics right now of operating a casino in atlantic city? >> atlantic city is a very troubled area from a gambling perspective. gambling revenue has declined from over $5 billion in 2007 to under $3 billion today. that is about a

>>> on a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the new york public library, where we spoke with the library's president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its current operations and future. >> let's start with numbers. how big is the new york public library? how many employees, budget, et cetera? >> guest: a public library combines the largest circulating branch library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four important research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also the shop berg center in hard -- harlem. we have 2100 employees, a budget of $280 million a year, operating, about half from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating library system in the neighborhoods. the other half comes from return of a billion dollar en.com that employs me, a trust, and that we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 municipal a year. there's also -- $100 million a year. there's also somewhere in the vicinity of 40 or $50 million a year of capital improvements, again

we reached out to the department of consume affairs here in new york city. erred towels the department of transportation. they referred us back to the department of consumer affairs. so new york bureaucracy working as well as ever. not surprisingly, the part company of both buses involved in yesterday's cash, shep, refused to answer our calls or return e-mails. >> lawyers are on the way. people wearing colorful clothing. >>> what would you say is the coolest city in the country? >> new york city. >> didn't crack the top ten. new york is between washington -- no, between oakland and dallas. >> washington is the definition of uncool. >> wait till you see where d.c. is. do not move. hang with us. y burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. get reait's crabfest atk, dip. red lobster! the years largest variety of crab. like new crab lover's trio! or try new jumbo lump crab over wood-grilled

the tradition of trading in your old kicks for fancier ones. >> here in new york city there is a very fierce debate over the use of force by police and by prison guards. this confrontation started it all. last month a new york police officer used a choke hold by arresting eric garner. the tactic is banned and garner's death is ruled a homicide. the use of excessive force on teen nment inmates. bernard kerik former police commissioner. first of all, what do you make of this eric garner case, should those officers be involved in a charge? >> it's up to the grand jury. the state grand jury will look at it. they'll look at the arrest procedures, were they followed, was there excessive force, the me has classified it as a homicide. in other words. the officer what they're saying is the officer was the cause of death. the grand jury is going to have to look at it and say was it intentional? did he intend to kill him? >> when you look at this very disturbing video and again this is perhaps out of context, it might be a little bit in isolation but what goes through your mind when what you see

he tried to defend new york city but failed miserably. british commander william howe crushed washington's army. with the maneuvered, help of the navy run by his brother, to capture new york city. washington agreed to fortify and reinforce fort washington, the last fasting -- bastion on the island. howe overran fort resulting in american soldiers being captured. many died in prison. fort lee fell to a british force. these were some of the worst disasters of the war suffered by americans. at this point, lee lost washington -- confidence in washington as commander-in-chief. he recommended no reinforcements be sent to fort washington. washington was not yet the mythical figure he is today. lee appears to have made the decision he deserved to replace washington as commander-in-chief of the british army. after the fall of fort lee, general cornwallis began to chase the remnants of washington's army out of new jersey. outnumbered, washington differently needed help. he left lee commanding 7000 troops in white plains, new york, to protect new eng

city. >> while new york city is the safest largest city in america, crime has been going down, one of the reasons the crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests. everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island. a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of the laguardia airport. the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, everyday, they know everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> is coming through here if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're tired, they're dirty, they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> we get between 80 to 90 admission