Some NASA pix

http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm

From dpreview.com

FD

I just saw a cab catch fire on 50th street corner Rockefeller plaza - probably from ruptured fuel lines - and explode and burn down. It was pretty cool (no casualties). Huge crowd of course.

It took FD about 15 minutes to turn a corner. Don’t understand why they didn't use the hydrants -- they didn't need the entire truck to extinguish one car fire, it would have been enough to just hook a hose to a hydrant. Instead, they tried to get in with a truck and that took some long-ass time...

I'm sure we'll see it on the news tonight.

UPDATE: Alex and I made it into NBC reporter's frames

"White Flight" as explained by Scientific American in October 1957

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=193AE1D8-E7F2-99DF-3F9726D59FA872C1&ref=rdf

I'm amazed they "dared" to re-publish this in today's PC world. Go SciAm!

Aside from low income, movement into the unaccustomed city environment tends to break down whatever stability of attitude and habit the Negro brings with him from the rural South. Family disorganization among Negro city dwellers is high, as measured by such indices as broken marriages, families headed by females, and unrelated individuals living in the same household. How does a mother keep her teen-aged son off the streets if an entire family must eat, sleep and live in a single room? What opportunity for quiet or security is there in a tightly packed, restless neighborhood? The slum encourages rowdiness, casual and competitive sexuality, a readiness for combat; disease and crime rates soar.

And nothing much has changed.