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Travel and Places

The Greatest City in the World

(This article was written just after the 9/11 tragedy.)

“Sorry about that,” a guy in a tuxedo and white scarf said after he bumped into me outside Caroline’s comedy club.

“This IS New York, right?” I asked our next cabbie.

“Yes, mon,” he said, smiling beneath a shock of dreads, showing two rows of gold and silver teeth, “the greatest city in the world.”

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