
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.
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