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October 09, 2013

Meet Me In Grand Central

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Mark Hagerty remembers that as a child, he saw his father as a classic New Yorker: A self-made man who wore suits every day, took the train to Grand Central Station to work, and succeeded in the real estate business. In this conversation, he tells host Dick Gordon how New York City shaped his father, about their meeting place under Grand Central’s clock tower – and what that place meant at the end of his father’s life. The original version of this story aired June 18, 2010.

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