There Are 8,000,000 Stories In The Naked City And This Is The Last One

November, 1976

How a Gang of Bankers and Muggers Decided to Pull the Plug on New York CityA tradition, long current among Indian tribes, told of a remote period when a calm translucid lake surrounded the fair island of Manahata. Gold and silver fishes abounded in the lake; fruit and flowers were inexhaustible upon the land; and above all brooded the spirit of the sovereign god, Manitto! But suddenly an irruption of the great river laid waste the peaceful spot; the roadway opened to the sea, and amid the rush a...

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