February 09, 2012 05:15:07 PM
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Rich Koch

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UCNJ

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Any manhole cover

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Why? Because it was the infrastructure of New York - the sewers, the piped in water, and later gas, electricity and communications - that allowed New York to expand north from the Battery, to become the battery the country's explosive growth. And it was the ability to put it all under our feet that allowed our city to become an architectural and by extension cultural powerhouse.

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