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April 7, 2009
ABOVE: Puck Magazine satirizes father and son, Peter and Edward CooperKNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City. Other entrants in our mayoral survey can be found here.Mayor Edward…
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