This avenue is from the bad old days of Manhattan. Anything bad would happen here. Drugs, prostitution, robberies you name it. I remember meeting a guy from the CB radio over here, then his sister who came in the car and sat and spoke to me one night. The guy had an interesting story. He told me how his father was upstate New York driving when he was pulled over by a police officer who seem to have fun harassing him maybe because he's Hispanic. His father had enough. He reached down and pulled out a metal pipe and whacked the cop a number of time until he passed out. Then his father drove off never to venture into that area ever again. That's just one story, The housing projects on Avenue D are both named for local New Yorkers. We will examine who was Lillian Wald for the Lillian Wald Houses. "Lillian D. Wald, (born March 10, 1867, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died Sept. 1, 1940, Westport, Conn.), American nurse and social worker who founded the internationally known Henry Street Settlement in New York City (1893). Wald grew up in her native Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Rochester, New York. She was educated in a private school, and after abandoning a plan to attend Vassar College she passed a few years enjoying an active social life. In 1889 she broke completely with that life and entered the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, from which she graduated in 1891. For a year she worked as a nurse in the New York Juvenile Asylum. She supplemented her training in 1892–93 with courses at the Woman’s Medical College. She was asked to organize a class in home nursing for the poor immigrant families of New York’s Lower East Side, and in the course of that work she observed firsthand the wretched conditions within the tenement districts." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-D-Wald We will now examine who was Jacob Riis. "Jacob Riis, in full Jacob August Riis, (born May 3, 1849, Ribe, Denmark—died May 26, 1914, Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.), American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City. Riis, whose father was a schoolteacher, was one of 15 children. He learned carpentry in Denmark before immigrating to the United States at the age of 21. He subsequently held various jobs, gaining a firsthand acquaintance with the ragged underside of city life. In 1873 he became a police reporter, assigned to New York City’s Lower East Side, where he found that in some tenements the infant death rate was one in 10." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacob-Riis ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRY5W6waioI

"An Irish tourist who was born in New Zealand died while trying to take a selfie on Thailand’s “death railway.” Patrick Ward, 45, fell to his death from a moving train in Kanchanaburi province in western Thailand on Tuesday. Ward reportedly opened the door of the train to take a selfie. He then slipped and fell to the ground below the railway at Krasae Cave in Sai Yok district, according to reports." A Day Spent at Kanchanaburi, Thailand near the River Kwai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOf71Rnlg7w Hiker's Fatal Fall in Grand Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FgSm2Ge3og The Stunt some girls do for a picture. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OCfhHgNJGfk ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCm_Kb5hJ4