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High life

New York is a paradise for criminals

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

New York

New York, New York, once a wonderful town/ The people are crap and the mayor’s a clown/ The only safe space is a hole in the ground… I could go on, but why be so negative? Arriving from bucolic Switzerland, Newark, one of America’s ‘murder capitals’, feels like Katanga circa 1960.

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