Mary Shaw who also was born in Brooklyn posted this video on Facebook. I was born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in 1949, but my family moved to Queens two years later. This film offers a narrated tour of the borough in that year.
Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I retired three years ago after working as a Science/Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for 25 years. I have been married to Karen since 1983. We have a son Lee who is now 32 years old. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. I am interested in rock and roll radio. I am a big fan of the New York Mets.
The inauguration of the president should be a joyous occasion as the Americans celebrate the peaceful transition from one administration to the next. The two inaugurations that I recall are: