For generations of New Yorkers, the clang of a classroom clock or the dust of chalk-filled erasers brings back memories of their school days.

For 84-year-old retired teacher Marty Raskin, those memories live on in thousands of artifacts he has spent decades collecting.

What You Need To Know

Marty Raskin is a collector of educational memorabilia from NYC Public Schools and beyond

Raskin was a public school teacher for 32 years

He also attended public schools growing up in East New York, Brooklyn

"This would be plugged in, and this would be like a vacuum sucking up all the chalk. Before this you would go like this with the two things or a teacher would say, ‘Would you be an eraser cleaner monitor.’ And you’d go outside and bang all the chalk out," said Raskin, demonstrating an electric

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