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Grittiness and Romanticism in New York and Paris

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Alice of Skyrra was inspired by a book about New York in the late 1870s. The author recalls walking down Doyer Street, where former boxers opened saloons and gangsters wore chain mail. "I could imagine all the people that had lived there," she says.

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