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PS: I visited NYC in 1973 and 1974. I was a garbageman in New Jersey working for Joey Filiberto Sanitation. I'd take the train into NYC on the weekends to see football and hockey games.

NYC was pretty rough back then. I remember walking up the spiral ramp from the trains at Penn Station. A huge black man wearing a rain coat was on the ramp. He opened his raincoat.

On the inside of the coat were 100 watches or more.

"Hey kid! You wanna buy a watch?"

I told him I had no sense of time and went on my way.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vigilance

The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance cleaned up San Francisco back in the 1800s.

The city could use another cleaning.

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