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Episode 265: What's In a (NYC).Name

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The Disproportion of Things Named for a Person

I wonder if you sometimes think that there are too many things named for a specific person. LaGuardia is certainly the one that comes to mind. I tried really hard to focus on the more obscure people whose names you would know without knowing much about them beyond their name. Maybe Van Cortland, who's not in the book,. There's a lot of stuff named after them. No, obviously nowhere near as much as LaGuardia.

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