Richard Habersham-Bey: My furniture store was right across the street from The Coronet – the old Coronet, the first Coronet. They stayed there for a short while but they had a lot of jazz musicians. 

[He suggests coming by at another time later so he can unpack some of the many photographs he has in his collection. He displays citations from the City of New York and Brooklyn and other photographs from when he later bought the old Count Basie Club in Harlem and ran that (circa 1968) while still running the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn. All his citations were in recognition of The Blue Coronet, from entities such as politicians Roger Green, Al Vann, Concerned Citizens of Bedford-Stuyvesant, etc.] 

I was the chairman of the board of [Bedford-Stuyvesant] Youth in Action [Brooklyn]. 

[Displays photos of the grocery store his parents owned.]