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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Perpetual Conflict

Governors Island

"With its bouillabaisse of nationalities and ethnicities and  its 8 million ambitious, sometimes clawing personalities squeezed into a rather cramped 309-square-mile patch, New York is a city in perpetual conflict. The big surprise is that there isn't more open warfare."
Joseph Berger, The World in a City