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New York Faces Noise Cure and Skyscraper Fever
New York begins a citywide effort to curb noise from horns and street hawkers as police push mufflers on vehicles. The piece also notes mounting Park soil costs for Central Park, an insect moth episode endangering urban trees, Bishop Potter’s death, and looming high rise construction challenging fire department water pressure.
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New York
Gotham
Bingham
Central Park
Father Knickerbocker
Manhattan Island
Manhattan
Nature
National Association of Audubon Societies
Bishop Potter
New York City
Grover Cleveland
Tmes