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PUBLISHING, SCIENCE, SEARCH,
MORE, THIS IS METRO FOCUS WITH
SCHNEIDER.
>> TONIGHT, WHAT
SANDY DESTROYED IN MANHATTAN
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO WATER
>> BIG BRIDGES GET GOOD MONEY.
O.K.
CORRAL MADE BIG HISTORY BUT DO
YOU KNOW WHO MADE WYATT EARP A
>> AND A
SPRINGTIME TRADITION
IN BROOKLYN.
>> WE HAVE A LONG WINDOW WHERE
>> FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM IS
>> CORPORATE FUNDING FOR METRO
LEARNED WHAT THAT MEANS AS A
CITY, WHEN SUPER STORM SANDY
TO FIX IT.
WE WILL TALK WITH A REPORTER
WHO HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE
RECOVERY
STORY AT THE "WALL
STREET JOURNAL."
BUT WE BEGIN WITH RICK KARR.
>> THE SHUTTERED
MANHATTAN HAVE NOT RECOVERED
SOME OF THEM WERE PUT IN PLACE
WITHIN DAYS 69 STORM, AND KEPT
OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE REAL
ESTATE IN THE WORLD IS
SURROUNDED BY WATER.
BIG CHUNKS OF LOWER MANHATTAN,
LAND THAT WAS RECLAIMED FROM
THE WATER, LIKE BATTERY PARK
CITY BEHIND ME HERE.
THAT CAN PROTECT IT FROM STORM
SURGES LIKE THE ONE THAT SANDY
SENT ASHORE.
FORCE.
WOULD INTERACT WITH THE AREA'S
>> SO IT'S A VERY POOR
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT ACTUALLY
>> BILL SOLECKI IS A PROFESSOR
THERE'S A LOT OF PROJECTIONS
IT HITS THE SHORE.
OF DIFFERENT PLACES.
DAMAGE THEY COULD INFLICT ON
DOLLARS SOUTH FERRY SUBWAY
STATION COULDN'T SURVIVE THE
PREDECESSOR COULD.
WHEN AN EXPLOSION AT CONED'S
EAST SIDE GENERATING STATION
PLUNGED LOWER MANHATTAN INTO
THAT ITS RETAINING WALLS HAD
TO KEEP OUT THE SURGE.
STREET, ENGINEERS LEARNED THAT
SALTWATER AND OLD COPPER
TELEPHONE WIRES DON'T MIX.
WHEN 5 FEET OF WATER FLOODED
THIS BASEMENT CABLE VAULT.
THAT CONNECT THE BUILDING TO
THOUSANDS OF HOMES AND OFFICES
AROUND THE
SERVICES
SERVICE, VIDEO
SIGNALS.
>> THE TELECOM COMPANY GLEANED
SOME GOOD NEWS FROM THE FLOOD.
WHILE THE STORM PLAYED HAVOC
IT HAD NO EFFECT ON MODERN
FIBER OPTIC LINES.
VERIZON STEPPED UP ITS EFFORTS
TO REPLACE THE COPPER CABLE.
>> WE ARE MOVING AS MUCH
SERVICE, IF NOT ALL SERVICE AS
QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO FIBER
OPTIC-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE
BECAUSE HAVING A FIBER
AREA UNDERGROUND IS THE BEST
WE HAVE PUT 20 YEARS
WORTH OF
INVESTMENT, WE PUT THAT IN
PLACE IN A NUMBER OF WEEKS AND
INVESTMENT
BEFORE THE STORM BUT LOWER
THAT KIND OF FORESIGHT AND
EAST RIVER AND EACH ONE OF
THAN $100 MILLION TO REHAB AND
BRING UP AS WELL
HIGH-TECH FLOOD BARRIERA
CORDING TO A RECENT DAILY NEWS
STORY.
WILL BE DEMANDS THAT CALLS FOR
MONEY, TIME WHEN GOVERNMENTS
THERE'S NO WAY TO COMPLETELY
WATERS THAT SURROUND IT.
NEW YORK CITY GREW UP WHERE IT
RIVERS, NEW YORK BAY AND THE
ATLANTIC OCEAN ARE NEARBY.
HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHATEVER
THOSE WATERS
FOR METRO FOCUS, I'M RICK KARR
>> AND JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE
ABOUT HOW THE GREATER NEW YORK
AFTERMATH OF
SANDY IS LAURA
>> ABSOLUTELY IF YOU WANT TO
LOWER MANHATTAN IN THE FIRST
WEEK AFTER SANDY, IT WAS A
DIFFERENT WORLD.
CLOSED
WERE STILL CLOSED AND A LOT OF
THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.
IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR THAT
AREA TO COME BACK.
>> IT'S -- WE'RE CERTAINLY
GETTING THERE.
>> HAS IT MADE IT MORE
>> I THINK TO LIVE THERE, IT
EQUIPMENT UP TO HIGHER FLOORS.
>> RICK'S PIECE TALKED A LOT
ABOUT LESSONS LEARNED.
SUPER STORM SANDY.
THINGS ABOUT THESE STORMS IS
THAT THEY ARE VERY -- THEY ARE
LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN AND TO
SOME DEGREE, ONE OF THEM IS TO
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.
I THINK THE BIG THING THAT
ELEVATORS AND BOILERS IN THE
BASEMENT AND THAT WASN'T A
BUILDING SO CLOSE TO THE
WILL HAPPEN?
>> I DON'T THINK SO.
I DON'T THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN
ANY TIME SOON.
>> WHICH AREAS OF THE CITY ARE
DOING WELL IN THEIR RECOVERY
ARE NOT DOING SO WELL.
>> I WOULD SAY LOWER MANHATTAN
DID FAIRLY WELL.
THERE'S A LOT OF INVESTMENT,
ONE OF THE AREAS I LOOK IS
THERE WAS A HUGE FIRE THAT
WIPED OUT MORE THAN 100 HOMES.
REALLY STRUGGLING.
>> AND HOW WILL WE PAY FOR ALL
OF THIS?
A LOT OF PEOPLE -- SOME PEOPLE
HAD INSURANCE.
THAT FUNDING JUST GOT APPROVED
SO WE WILL START TO SEE THAT
BUILDINGS?
FIXING IT?
>> YEAH, MM-HMM.
GETTING LOANS FROM THE SMALL
PAY OR
LIKE THAT?
>> I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE
THAT'S FLOWING INTO AREAS LIKE
THE ROCKAWAYS THAT HAVE BEEN
OF
DECADES.
>> ARE THERE OTHER BENEFITS OF
KNOW, MANY OF US HAVEN'T SEEN?
WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON?
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
I THINK THE ROCKAWAYS IS A
FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF THAT.
ROCKAWAYS BEFORE THE STORM, IT
LOOKED LIKE SOMETIMES A SECOND
WORLD COUNTRY.
THERE WERE NOT JOBS THERE OR
OF IN POOR REPAIR AND ROADS IN
POOR REPAIR.
>> LAURA, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
SANDY NEXT WEEK.
JOIN US FROM
LIVE TOWN HALL, HOSTED BY MIKE
SCHNEIDER.
MANAGING EDITOR MIKE
SCHNEIDER.
>> THE PORT AUTHORITY HAS FOUR
OLD, THEY ARE ALL OLDER THAN
YOU.
THAT'S RIGHT, THE PORT
AUTHORITY HAS NOT OPENED A NEW
BUT THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
MARTIN ROBINS WHAT WE'RE GOING
TERMS OF
LONG-TERM LANGUAGE
THE BRIDGE IS DEFINITELY
CAN'T BE
POSSIBILITIES WITH THE BRIDGE.
SECOND BRIDGE AND TURN THE
WAY, BUT OVER THE YEARS THAT
OF DEFICIENCIES IN THE
DECISION WAS MADE TO BUILD A
HAVE SUPER TANKERS GOING
NEED TO GET INTO THE
THEY CAN'T FIT
BAYONNE BRIDGE AS IT IS.
>> THAT'S A DRAMATICALLY
DIFFERENT PROGRAM.
MOTORISTS.
EXPERIENCE GOING ACROSS THAT
IT'S
RELATIVELY LIGHTLY USED BRIDGE
HUGE TANKERS CAN'T GET UNDER
>> IT'S LOCATED IN A
CRITICAL
POINT.
IT STANDS BETWEEN NEW YORK
HARBOR AND THE NEWARK AND PORT
COMMERCE, AND THEY REQUIRE A
GREATER DRAFT THAN THE BAYONNE
BRIDGE CAN NOW
PROVIDE.
MUCH LESSER SCALE.
IT'S A MORE ROUTINE TYPE OF AN
ON THE BRIDGE.
AND VICEA VERSA.
IT'S HEAVILY USED.
IT'S QUITE HEAVILY USED BUT IT
NEEDS -- YOU KNOW, THE PASSAGE
DETERIORATE AND THE BRIDGE
NEEDS ATTENTION.
SAID AND DONE, WILL THIS
DRIVE?
>> I THINK AT THE OUTER BRIDGE
THAT THE RUTS AND POTHOLES AND
UP, AND IT WILL BE A BETTER,
SMOOTH -- EVERYBODY ENJOYS
DRIVING OVER A SMOOTH SURFACE.
>> AND SO THAT WOULD
BE A
THE GOTHELS BRIDGE WILL MAKE A
CONNECTION BETWEEN CENTRAL NEW
MORE
>> HAVE THEY DECIDED WHAT KIND
THERE?
IS IT?
THE PLANS ALREADY?
ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, MIKE.
RIGHT NOW?
>> NO, I'M SURE IT WILL HAVE A
>> LAST QUESTION WHEN ALL OF
THIS IS SAID AND DONE, WILL IT
ISSUES THAT AFFLICT US HERE IN
THIS REGION?
THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE COULD GET
BECAUSE THEY AREN'T CENTER
STAGE.
AND SO THEY DON'T ANSWER ALL
NEED -- THEY WERE ALSO
NEGLECTED.
LIGHTLY USED BRIDGE ONLY GOT
BECAUSE OF THIS COMMERCIAL
SHIPPING PROBLEM AND THAT IS
IMPORTANT, AND THAT CAN'T BE
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE
PORT AUTHORITY RESPONDED
THAT
ISSUE, AND GODSPEED TO
>> BECAUSE FIRST PART OF THEIR
NAME IS... THE PORT AUTHORITY.
>> OKAY.
VERY GOOD.
>> NEW YORK IS FULL OF
WE TAKE YOU TO THE "NEW YORK
BUILDING
OF PANELS AND TALKS FROM THE
URBAN FOOD SUPPLY TO GREEN
BUILDINGS AND A DISCUSSION
FROM NOW, WOULD WE STILL
BE
ABOUT TRYING TO GET MORE
WAY?
YEARS FROM NOW WE CAN SAY, YOU
OF THEM?
>> YOU ARE SEEING A REAL
CULTURE, SO WHETHER IT'S CAR
AND SO INCREASINGLY, YOU ARE
SEEING A LOT OF FOLKS -- AND
THAT REALLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO
GET AROUND OTHER WAYS.
THEY WANT CHOICES AND THAT IS,
SO THERE'S LIKE A 44% INCREASE
SEEING THIS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
TREND, A POSITIVE TREND, I
MORE EFFICIENT, SUSTAINABLE,
HEALTHIER SOCIETY AND SET OF
>> THE LEGEND OF THE SHOOT-OUT
AT THE O.K. CORRAL IS PROBABLY
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS STORIES
WHERE DEPUTY SHERIFF WYATT
EARP, ADVERTISE BROTHERS AND
DOC HOLIDAY SHOT AND
KILLED
IN TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA,
IN 1881.
MAGAZINE
FOR DECADES.
THERE'S A STORY BEHIND THE
STORY.
HIS COMMON LAW WIFE, JOSEPHINE
MARCUS EARP NOT ONLY HELPED TO
SPARK THE GUN FIGHT BUT SHAPED
WYATT EARP SYNONYMOUS WITH LAW
AND ORDER.
IN HER NEW BOOK "LADY AT THE
KIRSHNER
UNCOVERS SOME INCREDIBLE NEW
INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEGEND
>> NOW, ANNE, WHAT
MOTIVATED TO
WRITE THIS
CORRAL."
WYATT EARP WAS BURIED AT A
JEWISH CEMETERY.
AND SO IN A WAY THAT WAS THE
RUNNING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT
THERE I WAS IN JACKSON HEIGHTS
A BLACK AND WHITE TELEVISION
SET WATCHING WYATT EARP ON
O'BRIEN PICTURE.
YORK AND THAT SEEMS IMPROBABLE
AND FASCINATING AND THEN
O.K. CORRAL, EVERY SINGLE DAY,
IT REFERS TO EVERYTHING FROM A
CONGRESSIONAL SHOWDOWN, IT'S A
IT'S A TROPE THAT WE THINK OF.
THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS THIS
WOMAN JOSEPHINE MARCUS WHO HAD
AND THEN WYATT EARP HIMSELF, I
WHITE HAT.
JOSEPHINE WHO PUT THAT WHITE
HAT ON HIS HEAD.
I LIKE THE WHITE SIDE OF THE
>> I THINK LIKE MOST PEOPLE,
WHITE IN ALL OF US, A LOT OF
JOSEPHINE WHO SHAPED
THE LEGEND
OF WYATT EARP.
THE WEST, YOU DIDN'T SEEM TO
ANTI-SEMITISM.
THE PREJUDICE CAME FROM WITHIN
AND FOR MANY OF US WHO GREW UP
THE SAN FRANCISCO THAT
JOSEPHINE GREW UP IN, WHEN HER
YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, WAS A
HIGHLY STRATIFIED SOCIETY.
AND THE UPPER CRUST WERE THE
GERMAN JEWS AND THEN THERE WAS
FAMILY WAS FROM PRUSSIA, I.E.,
BELONG TO THAT
UPPER CRUST.
SHE'S UNCONVENTIONAL, BUT WHAT
SHE LIVED WITH TWO MEN AND SHE
THEM WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO
THEM FOR
ONE EXAMPLE.
HER.
BE LIKE HER SISTER WHO WAS
EVENTUALLY, BUT THEN THERE WAS
THE OTHER PART OF JOSEPHINE,
JOSEPHINE AND THAT'S THE
ADVENTUROUS, THAT IS THE WOMAN
ADVENTURE, THE NEXT FORTUNE.
>> NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT THES
AT THE McCAULEY HONORS
COLLEGE, WHICH YOU ARE THE
UNIVERSITY DEAN, THAT THEY
HELPED YOU RESEARCH THIS BOOK.
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
GREAT PRIVILEGES TO BE WORKING
WITH STUDENT BODY THAT I THINK
MANY OF OUR STUDENTS ARE
FUTURE LEADERS OF NEW YORK AND
THEY BRING INCREDIBLE ENERGY
McCAULEY STUDENTS WHO HAVE
THEM, FROM THE YOUNG WOMEN I
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE MAN AND
THE WOMAN WHO SHAPED VERY MUCH
>> HOW DOES McCAULEY FIT
INTO
THE CUNY SYSTEM.
WORK AS A PARTNERSHIP WITH
EIGHT OF THE COLLEGES OF THE
BOROUGH.
WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE
CAMPUSES AND THE STUDENTS HAVE
THEY ARE STUDENTS AT
COLLEGE WHAT IS NO INTERESTING
ABOUT THAT STRUCTURE IS THAT
BUSINESS OR AN ORGANIZATION IN
IN IT.
SO WE HAVE OUR STUDENTS ON THE
ONE HAND SITTING NEXT TO THE
DOWN THREE JOBS TO GO TO
SCHOOL, THE RETURNING VET FROM
AFGHANISTAN.
THEY HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE 69
BASE AND THEN THEY HAVE THIS
ACADEMICALLY WELL PREPARED
STUDENTS
WHO COME OUT OF JUST
100 HIGH
>> WELL, ANNE, CONGRATULATIONS
YOUR WORK AT MACAULAY.
>> THANK YOU, IT'S AN HONOR TO
BE HERE.
BROOKLYN MEETS JAPAN MEETS THE
SPRING TRADITION OF HONORING
THE BROOK LIP BOTANIC GARDEN
CELEBRATED
LAST WEEKEND OF APRIL.
THIS FESTIVAL OF TRADITIONAL
JAPANESE CULTURE IS CONSIDERED
LARGEST EVENT.
>> WHAT'S REALLY SPECIAL ABOUT
THIS CHERRY AND ALL CHERRY
WHICH IS
BECAUSE WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL
JAPANESE CHERRY TREES.
GARDEN AND THE WONDERFUL THING
ABOUT OUR COLLECTION, VERY
DIFFERENT FROM WASHINGTON,
D.C., IS THAT WE HAVE MANY
WHEN YOU CAN WATCH DIFFERENT
FULL
BLOOM.
THE CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL IS
BRINGS GENERATIONS TOGETHER.
ABOUT PRESERVING TRADITIONAL
CULTURE.
WE WORK WITH A DANCE TROUPE,
WHERE THEY HAVE COLLECTED FOLK
DANCES IN JAPAN AND IN THOSE
NO LONGER EXIST.
KEEP THESE TRADITIONS ALIVE.
DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO TRAVEL TO
BEAUTIFUL, PEACEFUL MOMENT AND
>> THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS LAST UP
AND THAT'S OUR BROADCAST FOR
THIS WEEK.
FOR OUR LIVE
SUPER STORM SANDY, A LIVE TOWN
NJ TODAY'S MIKE SCHNEIDER WILL
WEEK AND YOU CAN
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AT METROFOCUS.ORG.
WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.