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Did you know
The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street
... that the
People's Library
(pictured)
was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in
Zuccotti Park
, New York?
... that the
Stillwell Avenue
/Surf Avenue intersection in
New York City
is the site of the world's
largest subway station
?
... that, unlike other
Colonial Revival
post offices in New York, the
Lenox Hill station
on
Manhattan
's
Upper East Side
has two main entrances on either side?
... that the
New York City Fire Department
lost 12 firefighters in the
23rd Street Fire
in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on
September 11, 2001
?
... that a
meeting
on May 24, 1963 brought black leaders together with U.S. Attorney General
Robert Kennedy
, who complained, "You can't talk to them the way you can talk to
Martin Luther King
"?
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