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Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages
Years before “The Power Broker” started appearing on the shelves of every journalist giving a Zoom interview, I would enlighten (my wife would say “bore”) friends and family with my enthusiasm for Robert Caro’s monumental biography of New York City planner …