so the history we see here is very basic to what new york city is all about and to how new york cityeloped. >> the new york transit museum is a nonprofit organization administered but not funded by the mta, or metropolitan transit authority. you can view this and all other american history tv perhaps at c-span.org/history. cspan.org/history. tvjion american history tonight as we feature archival footage of the new president. we will see his swearing-in in ceremony and his first white house press conference. watch richard nixon's presidency end and gerald ford's begin on american history tv on c-span 3. >> while congress is on break, primetime features a wide range of political views on topics. this week the debate on america's greatness, veteran health care, and detectives from the centers of disease control and prevention. we visit the atlanta press club. and we take a history toward the civil war.t c-span primetime at 8:00 p.m. eastern. let us know what you think. call us at -- us.yoyou can email join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. you are watch

as a result, the new york transit museum has this fabulous document of what new york city looked like at the turn of the century, because all these photographs were taken for insurance purposes, but it leaves us with this terrific sense of what our history is like. our archive is used by filmmakers, advertisers, by students, by authors, because it is a wonderful -- it really gives you a sense of the history of new york city, based on all the contract drawings that we have, the maps of how the subway was built and how it ultimately was extended, the photographs that show what the city looked like as the subway was being built, and after, and the attempts to expand the subway system. we have this terrific collection of documentation in our archives. this picture here shows you -- this was a labor march to get better conditions for the workers who were building the subway system. the subway was built mostly by irish immigrants, italian immigrants, and african-american immigrants. the irish and the italians were able to get jobs based on their connections to either tammany hall or the pad

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 which is what the subways would go through, the subways would run through. laying track. and then ultimatel

these were the times new york city were in very dark financial shape. aders of the city at the time came together to talk about how to save new york city. >> and they did it right here? >> everyday they would say, where should we meet? my father said, it is a bit selfish on my part because all i have to do is take an elevator, but let's meet at the regency. [laughter] that is literally where the term -- in the mid-70's, where the term power breakfast started. we will re-establish the regency as the home of the power breakfasts, the place where people want to come to see and be seen. >> coming up, what kind of hotel room does $100 million buy? what is the most expensive part of this room? >> the bathroom. the bathrooms are very, very expensive. ♪ >> just before it reopened, jonathan tisch, chairman of loews hotels, gave me a tour of the newly renovated loews regency in east midtown manhattan. >> here we go, betty. after you. >> all right. newly renovated rooms. you have designed -- you picked out almost everything in this room. >> i can tell you stories b

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 york city built a network of 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 level never seen before. >> reporter: as new york was more dependent on the aqueduct residents from an upstate town notices someth

that can't make enough to make ends meet because living. >> reporter: it comes as the wealth of new york city, the world's financial capital is growing. new york ranks four in a recent survey of cities around the globe with the highest percentage of millionaires. joe berg says as the city is wealthier, demand at the 1,000 increasing. >> the demand goes up, represent is the single greatest cost that low income people face. if they can't afford to pay represent, they can't afford to find food. >> one in six new yorkers live in homes where they can't afford enough food, and points to east harlem as an example of new york as the wages rise. >> the economy has been recovering at the top. there's never been a bigger disconnect between how wall street and main street is doing. home here in east harlem are suffering mightily. even if jobs are starting to trickle back, many of them are part-time, many of them are poverty. >> and with less government aid for food, the strap is on shorties to fill the void and depend on donations to feed new york's hungry. >>> whether it's in new york or anywhere in the

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

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new york city is still scrambling to be ready for the first day of school for thousands of preschoolers. enrolling kids, hiring teachers, preparing classrooms. making pre-kindergarten available to any and all new york four-year-olds was a campaign promise of mayor bill de blasio. and this was the first opening day of school of the mayor's term. around the country elected officials have operated on the assumption that starting school earlier is better--period. heading to schools before kindergarten high pressure system get more kids ready to learn, ready to behave and ready to handle themselves in classrooms, and promises to narrow the gaps between poor kids and other kids who show up in standardized testing from the earliest grades on. on this edition we'll ask whether new york's emphasize on universal pre-k is a worth while priority, and how you measure the pay back. it's back to school season around the country. this year in new york city that includes all the four-year-olds, too. mayor bill declassio signature $300 million campaign process. pre-k education for all is set to launch se

>> new york city police officers are what brings peace to the streets of the city of the new york.se. we go out there and protect your rights. we'll protect his rights tomorrow to march in staten island. we'll make sure he can say what he believes and coit safely. >> it's important that the police protect everyone in a society. there are some people in staten island, some business owners in staten island who say they're going to close up shop because they're terrified of what will happen during that march tomorrow. can you give them some assurances that it'll be safe in it's safe to keep their stores open tomorrow and during that march? >> new york city police officers deal with demonstrations every day by the thousands of people on the street corner. and we do it well and we'll do it peacefully. we'll do it, also, on saturday. we'll make sure store owners can do business, the protesters can be heard, and everyone else is safe in the meanwhile. >> what about the rhetoric that has become popular and really wide spread across this country now especially in left wing media but police

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 compare manhattan to the rest

in new york city, for example, whether it's a white cop or a cop of color, that officer has to get with 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 officers in the u.s. seemed resigned. >> i would hope that african-american or latino officers or someone would have a little more understanding but let's be honest. the environment you are in, that is impossible. >> critics argue there is no room for communal mutual trust under a leadership that insists on adversarial mil tarized police can. until that changes, they argue, they will continue to shoot and the unarmed will continue to die. al jazeera, new york. co

needed to prevent more failures across the nation and perhaps no city is on the edge of it than new york city. the city's aging pipes are under incredible strain with demands far exceeding their original intend. >> every day new yorkers consume one billion gallons of water. >> this is famous delicious water. the champagne of urban water supplies. >> can you describe to me how massive the infrastructure is. >> new york city has been building water supply infrastructure almost continuously for 170 years. >> why is continuous construction necessary. >> you have growth far exceeding expectations. >> reporter: new york city built a vast network of aqueducts and reservoirs to the water sheds. >> they built the delaware aqueduct . >> reporter: it became the longest continuous tunnel in the world. but over the decades residents from a small up state town began to notice something odd. some rain and sometimes shine. basements in the area would flood with water. >> how high is the water gotten in here? >> well, this panel was here. because the water got that high. >> the water was up to here. >> the wa

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. >>

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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

>> the fact that new york state, new york city's pension funds are constituent government.five by the funds not one each with their of directors. that means seven sanitation stocks, pickthe the investments that the sanitation fund invests in. that is terrible governance to begin with. >> they do not literally pick the stock. they picked the people. >> people and from time to time pick the strategies. .verrules professional staff that is always a sign of a pension fund in trouble. if the trustees overrule the staff in terms of selecting advisors or selecting investments, that is a problem. >> i would not even call them bad governance. that is just nongovernment. >> that is really true. , $35 billion is spending 175 million and expenses. they do none of it internally. all of it is given out. the basic problem here -- is 170 5 million now, 15llion managed years ago $17 million in expenses on almost the same amount of money. the what they have done is basically blown the fees of 10 times and personally picking the people who receive the fees. is part of it. the other part of it

you spent a lot of time as new york city commissioner makes sure this city was prepared post-9/11, arenow? >> 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 i

. >> reporter: and new york city.k us inside their most exclusive listings and showed us the art of the big sale. >> today, i have a really important client flying from out of town. a little more conservative. i will put on a tie. >> reporter: he is a real estate broker who specializes in ultrahigh-end homes. that's when he's not moonlighting on "the real housewives of beverly hills." >> thank you very much. >> reporter: his wife is housewife kyle richards. the real estate agency he runs is called simply the agency. >> i sold houses to absolutely everybody. to extraordinarily high-end celebrities, whether it be armed schwarzenegger or heidi klum and seal. big stock guys. gurus in their industries. >> reporter: this 16,000-square-foot estate in los angeles is for sale for $45 million. built by italian developers, it is by some accounts, the most expensive home for femasale in america. a master bedroom with three walk-in closets and 8 1/2 bathrooms. >> obviously, we take the client to this house that is an art enthusias

the new york city medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.ner'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 choke holds are banned in new york city. >> people by the thousands really want to see police reform. this is not antipolice but it is antipolice violating the law. >> reporter: the nypd had a lamp presence at the rally. uniformed officers were joined by community police officers dressed in polo shirts and pants. authorities didn't want to appear threatening to a crowd determined to move forward. jericka duncan for cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> well, two rallies today in ferguson, missouri, this afternoon the saint louis county naacp held a youth march. protesters marched to the site where michael brown was shot by officer darren wilso

for cbs this morning, vinita nair, new york. >> so the chief spokesperson for the new york city police department invited those artists to come back to the big apple and talk about their stunt. no surprise, there hasn't been a surprise from the artists yet. go figure. >> you usually find them helping sailors and boaters in distress but the u.s. coast guard was called in recently to rescue some sea life. a giant turtle. a boater saw it struggling near atlantic city, after it became entangled in fishing line. the coast guard crew climbed into the water alongside the turtle and carefully removed the knotted mess and the turtle was able to swim away. that is a big turtle. >> some of the gas prices that are driving you crazy. we are looking at prices in cumberland, maryland, according to aaa fuel finders the most expensive $3.69 a gallon op maryland avenue and regular unleaded for $3.50 a gallon if you go to the d afned & d pit and go on mccullen highway. >>> when we started the morning show this morning, we came in around 3:00 in the morning, it felt like the humidity might have been near

new york department of correction was bernard kerik. his get-tough on crime policies have continued today. the new york city department of corrections says the result is a remarkable 90% decrease in violence at riker's, which has led to a substantial reduction in the inmate population. five years later, our cameras went back inside rikers to see how this once infamous jail has re-invented itself. >> i've got friends here. i have acquaintances. you don't come here to make friends. >> i know i should have at least 80 something arrests, close to 100 arrests, and i've been here at least about 30 or 40 times. >> it is not a pleasant living space. we're not comfortable. we make ourselves feel comfortable to ease the fact that we're in jail. >> the inmates call rikers the rock. the penal colony. iraq island. the guards call it the meanest precinct in america. welcome to rikers island jail. >> it is easy to get cut up, stabbed, murdered, raped. all type of things you have to deal with in here. if everybody's thinking that this is all good, this is something coming and this is something to try, this is not the thing

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

. >> 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

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

place. >>> prayers pouring in for comedian joan rivers who is in a medically induced coma in a new york cityserious condition after undergoing -- having having a cardiac arrest episode during an outpatient procedure. >>> a huge eruption in papua new guinea and communities have been evacuated and flights over that nation have been diverted. iceland, the latest eruption has not produced significant ash so european air travel has not been affected there. >>> finally you're looking at a buttermilk pie made by linda horton. ups now investigating the possibility that the crust was actually allegedly store bought, pillsbury crust. that would be a scandal. horton submitted all the details of her recipe except for the crust and now we have word coming in that she's being brought in for questioning. piece of advice, take the fifth. >> even if they reject the pie i will eat it. >> the only way to get to the bottom of this is send it to us and we'll eat it. >> time now for the weather and meteorologist stephanie roberts is back with us from our abc station in sarasota. good morning to you once again. >>

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

we don't know if the new york city area is his home. we don't know how many people he may have come in contact with since the time he started showing symptoms. what we do know is ebola symptoms can take from two to 21 days to method to star manifesto present. anyone in the area at the time has nothing to worry about. emphasizing the very 86 progress from the er to the isolation ward, and trying to keep expectations trying to keep people calm about the situation here at mt. sinai. >> paul beban reporting from new york. pauline, this experimental serum that the u.s. aid workers received what sit? >> it is called zmap. zmap is essentially a combination of three antibodies. antibodies are neutralizing a germ, the ebola virus. >> is the serum particularly new? >> they have been experimenting for quite a while. this approach has been used you know in the 1800s even before we had antibiotics. we would use serum or blood transfuse that from somebody who had recovered from the disease into somebody who is now sick. even in 1994 during an ebola o

>>> 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