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A brief history of the island of Manhattan (and its neighborhoods).

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There’s a depressing sort of magic to Penn Station.

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The departures board in the train terminal is an imposing thing. It’s your only source of information in the whole place. Ticket holders stand there staring, waiting for the shuffling clicks of its mechanism.

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Technically, you really only need to have walked through the city once in your life to notice this, but it’s even more noticeable and even more of a pain in the ass when you’re in the city every day.