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Lighting up New York
New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik explores the social history of the Big Apple, through the best and the worst of times, and sees a sense of optimism for the future.
New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik explores the social history of the Big Apple, from the city's age of innocence to its dark days as the murder and mugging capital of the world.
After the immediate confusion following 9/11, Gopnik sees a new certainty emerging with hopes of a future for New York as glittering as its past.
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Fri 22 Jun 2007
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