City Band Set To Drum Up Nixon's Day by Bryant Mason

When the New York Knickerbockers Drum and Bugle Corps performs at the presidential Inauguration in Washington Saturday, it will be the first such performance by a city band since the old police band played at Teddy Roosevelt's swearing in , in 1898. " We have had a number of honor's" says Harvey Berish, the band's 33-year-old general manager. Of course this is doubly unusual in that this is the first time since the turn of the century that a New York City band has been invited to play." The official band of the New York Yankees, the Knickerbockers unit is made up of 200 members who practice in a renovated, second-floor bowling alley at 2415, Westchester Ave. , near Zarega Ave. in the Bronx.