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Salon
Salon
Politics
Bob Hennelly

New York City can't keep from crumbling

New York City is a complicated place where several million people make life work for themselves and their families every day. It’s a place where on the same day a seven-story apartment building can collapse with no one injured, and a few hours later an 11-year-old boy can hang himself with his shoelaces.

It’s a mélange of the miraculous and the despairing.

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