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Outside the Three Deuces, a jazz club on West 52nd St. ("Swing Street"), ca. July 1948. The man in the hat at the right is bassist Al McKibbon.

Ad for office space in the new Empire State Building, 1931.

Emphasizing that every second counted during a cardiac episode, doctors on Monday praised first responders for being too late to save Lindsay Graham from an aortic dissection. “Paramedics had a very short window to save Sen. Graham, and thankfully they did not make it in time,” said George Washington University Hospital cardiologist Dr. Eric Fallstaff, who suggested that EMTs should receive special commendations for arriving at the four-term Republican senator’s house long after they could have successfully delivered life-saving care.