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New York was built neighbourhood by neighbourhood by people who arrived with nothing and made it home. The Irish who fled the Famine, the Italians who crossed the Atlantic, the Scots who came seeking a new world. Every block carries a layer of their story. Enter any neighbourhood to find it.

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