N.Y. Today: These Are the Things That New Yorkers Achingly Miss

The crowds, the big-ticket blockbusters that were a subway ride away, “just everything.”

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Andrew Seng for The New York Times   These Are the Things That New Yorkers Achingly Miss The crowds, the big-ticket blockbusters that were a subway ride away, “just everything”: What’s gone has transformed the city. By Michael Wilson

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