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  1. Mark Kurlansky _ The Big Oyster: History on the

    This is New York: skyscraper champion of the world where slickers and know-it-alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where the truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye. -BEN HECHT,Nothing Sacred, 1937
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  2. Mark Kurlansky _ The Big Oyster: History on the

    Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The
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