new yorkers reacted to the stamp act with outrage. this was parliament's first attempt to tax the colonies under a new regime by placing on playing cards and legal documents. they're going to threaten the groups most likely to complain, lawyers, printers, and people who hang out at taverns. this is a bad idea. you will see what happens. first, new yorkers threaten to attack the stamp officer from in 1765. packs them off to fort george. when delegates from colonies convened in new york city during the stamp act congress in october of 17 685, john dickinson was among them. he wrote to his mother at a center will consume the greatest part of our afternoon. he was a straitlaced philadelphian. he is worried. this is how they were getting political business done. the day before the stamp act was to take effect, the merchant ped documentsrap in black as a sign of mourning this would be the death of liberty. 200 merchants met and resolved they would import no goods from great britain until the stamp act was repealed. this would put pressure on

>> a new yorker story is the most demanding literary form.t is much harder to write a new yorker story than a book. i have been fascinated with the gm ignition switch controversy. i am very late to the game here, but i don't want to write a book about it. i don't think anyone would read a book about it. but would it be the kernel of a great article? absolutely. >> we have seen journalists start their own companies. why not do something like that? >> because i would be terrible at it. i have to wake up too early in the morning, there are all kinds of very good reasons for me to steer clear of that. >> what about how the nfl has handled some of these domestic violence issues? >> this is a sport that is living in the past that has no connection, i think, to the realities of the game right now. and no real connection to american society. ♪ >> one of the subjects you wrote about is the nfl. you said it will become a ghettoized sport because of concussions, only poor athletes willing to play the game and that the sport could become obsolete. the nf

that's the result of some pretty hard work. >> the "new yorker" was still a lucky break. one of the mistakes we all make, when we look back on our lives, yorker" is not a lucky break? we overestimate our own qualifications and choices and underestimate the role of simple good fortune. >> have you evolved your conclusions? have you changed? >> you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you are a joke. you are a fossil. ♪ >> there are myths about some of the greatest creators that are boiled down in the legend. what is the myth of malcolm gladwell, and what is the reality? >> i don't think i have arrived at the level of myth. i am just about as boring and pedestrian in my private life as i appear to be in my public life. >> the tipping point, was your first best-selling book, you said you had no idea how big it would become. looking back, do you understand why it did? >> i don't. my books and books of many other people caught a specific wave, i think, over the last 20 years. which is, there was this emerging class of businessperson demanding a higher le

that is the way it is experienced for most new yorkers. i grew up using my local neighborhood library in a part of new york called and wanted. 20 to 30,000 kids come under bridges after school every day. it is safe. they do homework. they use the computer. we have now launched for the first time in our history afterschool programs. we aim to become the largest afterschool program possibly in the nation because we have kids coming in and because everybody needs more help on education. all of that is part of the experience of the library. people don't know this. we are the leading free provider new york of english-language instruction. new york is having a program. we teach citizenship. we're the leading free provider new york of basic computer skills training. we will be up 150,000 people enjoying those programs. we are also now starting to teach coding so that kids in the south bronx or harlem would want to get jobs in the information-technology industry can can come to the library. we are the leading nonuniversity part or with kucera, the

i have a bunch of things i want to write for the new yorker. same kind of meandering progress that it has taken over the course. >> i cannot wait. thank you very much, malcolm gladwell, for joining us on this show. it's been an honor and a pleasure having you. ♪ >> the following is a paid advertisement from starvista entertainment and time life. >> ♪ somewhere beyond the sea >> bobby darin, frank sinatra, dean martin. >> ♪ volare >> tony bennett, nat king cole, johnny mathis. >> ♪ it's not for me to say you

something like a third of new yorkers depend on the new york public library for having computer access because they don't have broadband. you can't even apply for a job in age. especially in the poor neighborhoods who absolutely depend on us to read and go online or to have a quiet place to sit and read and think and write and create. so that's very powerful stuff and it's also true in the better off neighborhoods in new york that every seat is filled. the new york public library has never seemed more. more books circulating, more computer use. every neighborhood wants one and we had more use than ever. it's a the way that it's experienced most new yorkers. they come into the branches after school every day. after school programs we aim to become the largest afterschool program possibly in the nation because we have the kids coming in and everybody needs more help on education for all of that is part of the experience of the library where people don't know this with the leading free provider in the english language instruction new york is have immigrants he teaches citizenship. we are

>> a new yorker story is the most demanding literary form. it is much harder to write a new yorker story than a book. i have been fascinated with the gm ignition switch controversy. i am very late to the game here, but i don't want to write a book about it. i don't think anyone would read a book about it. but would it be the kernel of a great article? absolutely. >> we have seen journalists start their own companies. why not do something like that? >> because i would be terrible at it. i have to wake up too early in the morning, there are all kinds of very good reasons for me to steer clear of that. >> what about how the nfl has handled some of these domestic violence issues? >> this is a sport that is living in the past that has no connection, i think, to the realities of the game right now. and no real connection to american society. ♪ >> one of the subjects you wrote about is the nfl. you said it will become a ghettoized sport because of concussions, only poor athletes willing to play the game, and that the sport could become obsolete. the

new yorkers do complain. but new yorkers are very generous of spirit.ew yorkers appreciate when something special is taking place. >> another problem -- mother nature. >> there had to be a rule change in terms of us being able to bid on getting the super bowl. there was a rule that if it was an open exposed stadium, it had to be in a city where the average mean temperature the day of the game is above 50 degrees. that is clearly not the case in february in the new york and new jersey area. >> they changed that rule for this game. >> it went away. >> the stadium has a team of 1000 at the ready to clear snow from the stands with a network of chutes. facility operations vp dave duernberger says they are ready for the snow. >> we put a snowmelter on the 300 concourse, and one down here on the field. we have a 600-ton snowmelter we can use in the parking lot. they have a jet engine inside. the heat that is produced from the jet engines is what melts the snow. >> it is a big operation. >> no matter what the weather, it will be a great day. >> some of the grea

. -- a job at the "new yorker." underestimate the role of simple good fortune. >> have you involved your conclusion about anything you've written? >> you still believe the same thing you wrote about 15 years ago then you are a joke, a fossil. ♪ >> there are myths about some of the greatest creative and innovators that are often boiled into legend. what is the myth of malcolm gladwell? i am just about as boring and pedestrian in my private life that i am in public. you said you had no idea how big your book would become. looking back, do you understand why it didn't? >> we caught a very specific wave over the last 20 years. ofre was this emerging class business person who is demanding a higher level of sophistication and thinking about business in the world. i haven't read it in 20 years. >> so many of your ideas have been widely debated. have you evolved your conclusion about anything you've written? >> all the time. you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago then you are a joke, a fossil. wasll kind

bellevue hospital, the flagship, a hospital that served in the toughest times and making all new yorkersully throughout this challenge. it's my honor to present dr. ron. [ applause ] >>> that's new york mayor speaking about the recovery from dr. craig spencer from declared ebola free. he'll be formally released from the hospital. once he has an opportunity to speak. we'll go back and hear his comments live. >>> for now i want to take it back to alcopoco, mexico where jose diaz-balart is covering the zwro outrage over the 43 missing students. >> indeed. we will go back to the press conference. when the doctor eventually begins to speak. in washington, frustration continues to grow from all sides. as president obama is expected to act on immigration any day now. frustration from republicans. senators ted cruz and mike lee who promised to make that an major part of the conformation process for the president's nominee for attorney general, loretta lynch, as well as from my next guest. this is erica anka andiola. all indications that the president seems to be acting on immigration sometime so

and it's our job as new yorkers to confront that.n some of the good people who work here treated badly. it hasn't been that often but we've heard enough reports to tell us. you never discriminate against someone who's helping others. [ applause ] if we could just get the conversation back to the truth there is no cause for anyone to be treated with anything but respect and our thanks for serving people in need by the way, our fellow new yorkers who come from those three west african nations, some of them have been stigmatized. people who are good hardworking people going about their lives contributing to our society. no one should be stigmatized because of where they come from. that is an un-american act and we will embrace all of our fellow new yorkers. [ applause ] i said if you want to help, if you want to help fight this disease at its root and that's a battle we can win you can support the extraordinary organizations that are doing this work, one of them doctors without borders that sponsored dr. spencer's extraordinary work. th

and so now this week, this the cover of the newest issue of "the new yorker." it's called broken arch. and the artist who created this cover, his name is bob stack. he lived in st. louis for 17 years, and he says that watching the news right now in his home state breaks his heart. quote, my hope is that the events in ferguson will provide a bridge and opportunity for the city and also for the country to learn and to come together. last night and into this morning people poured out on to the streets all over the country in solidarity with the folks that had been protesting in ferguson. from new york, boston, minneapolis, atlanta, portland, oakland, l.a., people last night took to the streets and they marched. in many places people used their bodies to block traffic, to close roads and highways. in los angeles they blocked the highway, the 101 highway. in new york they stopped traffic at the lincoln tunnel. they closed the brooklyn bridge also. they blocked both highways on either side of manhattan. for the most part all of these protests were peaceful, although t

you might recognize her as a cartoonist of "the new yorker." but joining us now here on the red carpet is david steinberger who is president and ceo of the perseus publishing group is also chairman of the national book foundation. what is the national book foundation? >> it's an organization that is committed to increasing the impact of great books on the culture. the thing we're best known for is the national book awards. it's great to see roz chast at the. if he wins he'll be the first graphic novel or the first graphic work ever to win a national book award for her really moving, amazing book. spin did we just hear what your vote was speak rocks are not allowed to vote. i don't have a vote. we have judges that we fly in from around the country. they have lunch. we have four categories from four different restaurants. they have lunch, and that that lunch we have -- we tell the one thing. you can't get the check and we make a decision. you have to pick the winner. no one knows until the get up on the stage today. >> how do you pick the judges?

most new yorkers would be like, what's the square footage? what's the rent? take it. all right. so maybe the quarantine is a bit of an over reaction. or as our freedom personal liberty-lovin' congress calls it, government underreach. >> we need to look at travel bans. >> something like a forward operating base have people report 21 days before they're to leave the country. >> they wait for people no close than six feet. >> doctor, you can get ebola sitting next to someone upon a bus if they in fact throw up on you, can't you? [ applause ] >> doctor, let me ask you this, what if you are yawning, guy runs up throws his ebola diarrhea right in your mouth. >> jon: ebola in the mouth, boom. what are you going to do then? >> all right. i stand corrected. i guess quarantine and travel bans are the best way to fight the disease. >> the idea of a blanket quarantine for people who come back could possibly have a negative consequence of essentially disincentivising people to go there. the best way to protect americans is stop the epidemic in africa we need those health

and bright and beautiful lois long of the "new yorker," her columns on the new york fashion industry on and off the avenue. and new york's boiling nightclub life. a column called "lipstick." they really, more than any other columns, helped to launch the "new yorker" as america's most sophisticated, first really sophisticated cosmopolitan magazine. i recently prepared for internet publication a little feature on the striving women of new york, which i have up here. and you don't have to pay for it. okay? i have to say here, though, just to pause, that while i appreciate the wonderful things the reviewer of "the new york times" wrote about my book, i was really shocked by her comment, that i quote, with few little exceptions like nightclub owner and elizabeth arden, the men appear in miller's book as showgirls and prostitutes. none of my characters are pliant show girls. and there isn't a single prostitute in the book. one wonders. anyway, while this is going on, while arden and goodman and these people are transforming fifth avenue, i don't have a slide on this, but ann vanderbilt and

his essays and reviews have been published in "the new yorker," "the new york times," the "washington post" and the nation among other outlets. in his cover essay on the invisible bridge for "the new york times" book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlstein's gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a rosetta stone for reading america and its politics today. it says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. true to form, perlstein doesn't condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. for now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found in the pages of his epic work. please welcome rick perlste

women writers like zelda fitzgerald and my personal favorite, bright and beautiful lois long of the new yorker. her column on the new york fashion industry on and off the avenue. new york's boiling nightclub life. she wrote a column called lipstick. really, more than any other columns helped to launch the new yorker as america's most sophisticated kcosmopolitan magazine. i wrote something on the striving women of new york up here and you don't have to pay for it. i have to say here, just to pause, while i appreciated the wonderful things the reviewer in the new york times book review wrote about my book, it was a strong review, i was shocked by the comment with few exceptions like a nightclub owner. the women tend to appear in miller's books at pliant chill girls and prostitutes. this is a gross misrepresentation of the book. they are not show girls and there's not a single prostitute in the book. one wonders. anyway. while this is going on, while arden and goodman and these people are transforming fifth avenue, i don't have a slide on this, but ann vanderbilt and ann morgan, the daughter of j

. >> there are reports that new yorkers looked at new yorkers stealing or grabbing banksy's work. let's watch. >> stealing it now as we spoke. >> don't even know the artists. they know they are going to get money on ebay. >> banksy - did he intend for people to take his work? >> i think so. there's a precedent for him doing this residency and he has seen the effects in the past. that piece was not tied down, and the reaction, and people trying to steal the pieces is built into the project. >> the film is user-generated comment. tell us how it works >> we were contacted by h.b.o. from the documentary session, they contacted us towards the end of the month. all the work was on display, and the residency was ending for us to catalogue that. we had social media. we went through. all the footage, it was a way for us to collaborate. >> you had to use crowd sourcing to put this together. >> absolutely. it's a film in new york, by new yorkers. the reaction to the work is part of work itself. based on crowd sourcing, what was the surprise? ipted i think that the relationships that formed a

as a native new yorker this makes me finally want to move out of nyc. >> how can we let a woman who is not even from new york welcome people to the city. the statue of liberty said, i know, it's just crazy, isn't it? >> the tourism industry said its intent was to target people outside of new york city. taylor's sense of enthusiasm, excitement and wonderment as a newcomer is precisely what we wanted to tap into. they also like her ability to shake it off. ♪ shake it off ♪ shake it off >> the ad agency told us that taylor is not getting paid for the stint. she's donating proceeds to new york city public schools. some online propose alternates. jay-z, sarah jessica parker, spike lee, jerry seinfeld, jennifer lopez, lester holt, erica hill. >> i think a transplant is great. i think one of the things i always loved about this city is you can get off the airplane, rent an apartment tomorrow and you're a new yorker. it's always been welcoming. transplants really sell the city well. >> i'm from new jersey but i was never a new yorker growing up. we never visited

i was never a new yorker growing up. we never visited the city. i feel like a new yorker.ved to the city. >> i love she is donating the proceeds of the song to the new york public schools. >> i'll take the other side. no, i'm just kidding. >> spike lee. >> i think they would all be great. >> you think of some of those people. >> absolutely. >>> not necessarily taylor. good for you. >> shake it off. >> come visit us. up next, your complete guide to the weekend box office. are [ male announcer ] lowe's presents how to shed pounds this winter. there. no more drafts. finally. [ male announcer ] this troy-bilt 24 inch electric start gas snow blower, now just $499. [ male announcer ] this troy-bilt 24 inch come on! let's hide in the attic. no. in the basement. why can't we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let's hide behind the chainsaws. smart. yeah. ok. if you're in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. it's what you do. this was a good idea. shhhh. be quiet. i'm being quiet. you're breathing on me! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you

carter said since when did you start reading the new yorker? i read it every week! [laughter] how many characters am i going to have on stage and i realized i had a fourth one in her and i need he had someone who could talk to him like that. they have a lively relationship. >> she ended up being a good tart part of the story and the story is carter and begin and sadat and brzezinski and others, it's such a wonderful throw back to a time that seems like a long time ago, but as you note, very correctly, we're still talking about this so much and while the personalities may be different, the issues are many the same. >> the camp david accords were in two parts. one is israel and egypt and that's the peace that's been established and not been violated violated. the second part was a framework for peace between israel and the palestinians and that's not been implemented and every single attempt to bring peace between them since then is simply an attempt to finalize the camp david accords. that part that's never been completed. >> and the area of the world we're talking a

>> new yorkers aren't easy to startle, but, like st. john, many of us have been stunned to learn that the tower casting those shadows across the children's playground is the vanguard of more to come. a line of gated castles is forming along the southern rim of central park, staking a privileged claim to the space, sky and sun long shared by all. this building is the first, marketed as one57, ninety stories tall on west 57th street. the noted architectural critic paul goldberger could hardly believe his eyes. >> the very top floor is the most unbelievable view you've ever seen, but it's a view from an airplane really. you're completely disconnected from the sidewalk. >> a private city in the sky for the rich, the very, very rich. as goldberger wrote, "if you seek a symbol of income inequality, look no farther than 57th street." >> they're mostly the international super rich. it's a whole category of people. most people are living there part time and have other residences either in this region or elsewhere in the u.s. or elsewhere in the

a new yorker, of course. she was very influential in his early life. >> what was his greatest skill? other than his will to prevail. >> other than his will to prevail -- i was going to say it was never giving in. the thing that he had that i find stunning in writing the book and researching it and that many people who dig into churchill come out with the feeling was his energy, his industry. he was like the toy with the battery that just keeps going. and churchill's unlike anybody or any journalist that i know -- he could drink red wine at dinner. white wine, brandy, liquor. he would then go upstairs to his office, walk around while a secretary was waiting up, and dictate until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. >> a book or speeches? >> speeches, thoughts, memos. he composed not just more words then dickens or shakespeare but more words than them combined. and he won the nobel prize for literature. and his paintings still sell for about a million dollars. >> he won a nobel prize for a history of the world war. >>

a lot of new yorkers are not happy about the pick and they're making pa parodies. >> explaining why the big apple is so unique. >> allow me to highlight some important new york vocabulary words. >> she goes on to talk about. convenient stores, and there are others who say they're the real ambassadors of the city. >> when a real new york ambassadors. >> welcome. >> now everywhere you look, it's impossible not to be affected by something or someone in new york city. >> sometimes we walk down the street at night. >> or ride in the subway. >> and it's like a group of guys, like, eyeing you? >> and some guy pulls out a knife. >> now i know i should run from things like that. >> so they're not the only new yorkers posting parody videos. >> first, the taxi is your friend, and they're easy to hail unless you're black, hispanic, carrying luggage, traveling to a borough. could something do something about that horn ♪ welcome to new york ♪ you'll probably never feel ♪ welcomed to new york >> leave it to new yorkers to tell you what they think. >> and i don't know what people in iowa really care "i

it's the sound that people heard when they had heard people say i'm a new yorker and people said "new yorker" and that's what they heard. and that's the name that they gave our tribal down. part of the evidence of the ongoing relationship between the united states and the hueden huedenshaunee. is found november 11th, where the united states delivers treaty cloth and salt to the united states nations. who signed that treaty of can canandaig canandaigua, so every time, november 11th, that's what it's come down to a little bit of cloth and a little bit of salt? well, actually, it's a lot of cloth and a lot of salt. but that's not the point either. the point is those are the symbols of the validity of the treaty. a brightening of tcovenant chai was used at the time. the covenant because it is a relationship and an ongoing treaty, that the covenant chain may tarnish. and it may need to be brightened up from time to time, so you need to polish the covenant chain. you need to renew your friendship. you need to meet face-to-face. you need to have discussions face-to-face. and all of that is p

what is the new yorker trying to say.t this country in many ways is broken when it comes to race relations. also i want to make a point. we have to be careful in terms of how we talk about, distribute, show the images as mainstream images. i believe some of the violent images, particularly the one of the young boy and cleveland. of him dying. that doesn't say violence to humanity. we have to be careful in terms of how we understand what the images are doing to us. >> you were saying you hope we are not desensitized to what is going on by seeing it over and over. >> that is one of the effects, certainly it is. >> great to see you. thanks for giving us your opinion of his images. they are very powerful. >> the white house is proposing stricter rules to cut down on smog. the knew plant targets countries with some of the worst ozone ratings. critics say it's not worth it. new standard would slash family budgets. reduce gtp and cost u.s. economy millions of jobs. in san francisco, many middle class residents are forced out. ev

rd people say, i am a new yorker. they heard -- and the people said "niyaka." that is what they heard. and that is the name they gave our tribal town. part of the evidence of the ongoing relationship between the united states and six nations iroquois confederacy peoples is every november 11, the day the treaty was signed, where the united states delivers cloth thetreaty cloth and salt to native nations. who signed that treaty of canandaigua in 1794. every.ry, that's done november 11 and someone might ask, is that what it has come down to? a little bit of cloth and salt? it is a lot of cloth and salt, but that is not the point, either. the point is that those are the symbols of the validity of the treaty. a brightening of the covenant chain is the language that was used at the time. that the covenant chain has those three links of peace, friendship forever. from time to time, because it is a relationship, because it is an ongoing treaty, that the nish, andchain may tar it may need to be brightened up from time to time. so we need to polish the covenant chain. yo