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"The island of Manhattan is a gigantic metaphoric model of the compression of an immigrant ship that has moored and never left. Every apartment is like a berth. Every square meter of street is a deck. The skyscraping offices are the bridge."

SOURCE            "About Looking"
KEYWORDS      city, ship, apartment, street
GENRE               20th Century Essay

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