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Posted on January 13, 2019December 29, 2020

John Jacob Astor

The weekend before Christmas my family and I went to NYC to see a college basketball game at Madison Square Garden.  The trip was sponsored by the basketball booster club at my son's high school, and besides watching the game, we had a few hours to explore the city on our own.  I knew it …

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