New York City is the capitol of the world the head quarters of the world. NYC also is the headquarters of the News industry and the publishing industry. Those two industries I am trying to reach. The idea of having my manuscript with me while driving the cab crossed my mind number of times yet postponed it. A postponement I came to regret after coincidently picking up Mike Woods of FOX 5 News. I did not have any materials to show or give him. After this, I always carried with me a printed early copy of my manuscript, with a cover letter addressed to prospective passengers who are working in either publishing or News reporting. I also started to carry few of my complete manuscript on a CD. Hoping that the lighting will strike again and I‘ll meet another newsperson to present for and hand my materials to.
On the evening of septemper 5th 2006 I was driving my cab in the west side of Manhattan. It was raining heavily. As I was looking for passengers, a lady with big dark glasses and a partially covered hair hailed me. I stopped for her. Since she got in the cab from the vicinity of ABC News, immediately after she told me her destination, I asked; do your job has anything to do with reporting the news? Yes, she answered. It was a one word conclusive answer loaded with a dash of how dare you don’t know me? I looked in the rear view mirror trying to see if I can identify her and she was Cynthia McFadden the famed ABC News’ national journalist. Yes, lighting can strike twice and this time it struck much brighter. Her destination was close there was no time to digest the “shock” of having her in my cab. She was in the phone constantly giving instructions to various recipients, as if she was still in her office. She seemed and sounded like a person with a lot of responsibilities and authority. I started presenting my design concept for Lower Manhattan for her using the drawing in my printed manuscript every time we stopped at a red light. It seemed like I was able to catch her attention she started to come closer to the cab’s partition window. I told her that the rebuilding process of lower Manhattan is corrupted. As we were ready to reach our destination she said give me this (the printed book) and I have a very good investigator to look at it. Instead, I handed her my manuscript on a CD that was a more advanced version of the printed manuscript. I regretted doing this; I should have given her both the printed copy and the CD. As we arrived, I ended by reminding her of how very successful she is in the new format of “Night Line”. She nodded proudly.
Almost a year later I picked up Eyewitness News’ Scott Clark, I showed him my manuscript and with out him asking I hand-delivered a printed copy of my manuscript to his office in ABC's Eyewitness News.
here are some excerpts from the letter i hand-delvered to her on septemper 6 , 2006
During a stop in a red light I presented to you the cover page of my book that highlights one of my schemes to expand Lower Manhattan. You answered “give me this (the book) and I will hand it to a very good investigative reporter to look at it. I suggested that you take a CD that has a lot more information than the book. I was surprised while you were multitasking and talking on the phone in the backseat of the car you asked the most important question reading the entire topic “Is it doable?” You asked , I answered “certainly is, I would still be in school if it was not”. I can elaborate more to tell you that both Lower Manhattan and Governors Island have long history of land-fill started in the 1600s and going on until present time. Diagrams highlighting this land-fill history are included in the CD I handed to you yesterday.
If you decided to examine the national rebuilding process of Lower Manhattan, you will realize that you will need help from someone with architecture background. The good news is you got the help you need already in the CD that I gave you . It includes tens of objectively critical essays regarding the current rebuilding process . It also includes a national rebuilding approach that easily supersedes the current rebuilding approach.
Both the letter and the CD I handed you are enclosed one more time here.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Ramez A. George
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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