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Childe Hassam via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) The reading of the Declaration of Independence that New York celebrates each Fourth of July has a local backstory: when a copy reached the city on July 9, 1776, and was read aloud to General Washington’s troops on the Common near today’s City Hall, a crowd surged down …

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A classic New York everything bagel with cream cheese on a dark plate, representing over a century of bagel-making tradition in New York City The classic New York bagel starts its life in a pot of water, not an oven — a brief boil before baking is the step that gives it that glossy, chewy …

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