A Historian Is on a Quest to Locate Lost Events
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: June 29, 2009
Forlornly unidentified and altogether forgotten, these sites have been literally lost to history.
On Avenue of the Americas, there is a block where the first cellphone call was completed in 1973; on West 125th Street, where the old Blumstein’s department store stood, nothing marks the place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in 1958.
Then there is the spot on Fifth Avenue where Winston Churchill, crossing against the light, was struck by a car in 1931 and nearly killed.