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  Monday  May 20  2002    12: 28 AM

Graphic Arts

Another excellent Lileks production.

Gotham Skyscrapers & Views

It’s just a guess, but I’m sure I’m right: New York produced more postcards than any city in the world. It has the planet’s best collection of jaw-dropping monuments; every street has a building ten times as tall as the highest steeple back home. To send a card from New York was to tell the folks you were at the center of the universe. You were in the canyons of the giants. And the weather’s fine!
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thanks to newthings

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yhb's postcard collection


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thanks to consumptive.org