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100 Years of New York City at the NYTimes
When the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center were going up and everyone felt the way Jay Gatsby and Nick Carroway did when they drove from Manhattan and Nick observed: "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
How to Build Skyscrapers By Robert Adam Spring 2002
The Valley of Ashes By Roger Starr Autumn 1992
The Voodoo That He Did So Well By Stefan Kanfer Winter 2003
Park Avenue in the Jazz Age By Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald Summer 1994
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