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5 Things You Never Needed to Know About NYC

5 Things You Never Needed to Know About NYC

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I recently took the New York City tour guide exam. (I passed. More on that to come in a future issue.)

The instructions for preparing for this test, per the rather dryly worded government web site, lay out a challenge. They recommend a handful of texts that cover the peoples, history, art, and architecture of New Yo…

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