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High life

Taki: Mayor Bloomberg has sold New York out to the highest bidder

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

 New York

The trouble with driving into the city is nostalgia. Manhattan Island looms into view and it still has the same effect of wonderment as it did long ago. Once walking the streets, however, reality sets in with a bang. And it is a bang! Manhattan is one big building site, cement mixers and drills having replaced the soft tunes of Tin Pan Alley that I first heard when walking to Broadway and 47th Street.

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