FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER: The Cotton Club
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from the…
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New York City is a terrible place for horses, or for that matter, any animal bigger than a rat.However, the animal has been instrumental to New York's history. Today you can see them trotting through Central Park, looking lobotomized, carting around tourists in frilly…
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