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...In The New Yorker in 1927 (the same year he published The Gangs of New York), Herbert Asbury described the area as “a region of such utter depravity that horrified reformers called it ‘Satan’s Circus’....
...In Britain fire hydrants tend to be small concrete paddles marked with a mean yellow enamel “H”. The mechanics are all underground, invisible....
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