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New York Night Market Tales and Racketeers
A New Yorker at Large reports on arrest substitutes used by racketeers for minor offenses and a cover charge scam at night clubs. The piece notes an outdoor poetry market in Greenwich Village, artists and poets pricing low to attract buyers, and an upper Broadway museum devoted to American Indian exhibits.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Slim McCormack
Ruth Rappaport
Maxwell Bodenheim
Washington Square
Upper Broadway