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On 2021-05-22 6:44 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 5/22/2021 2:22 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:


>>
>> I started living in NYC in 1971. No one was selling sweet potatoes
>> from carts.
>>

>
> They used to until 1970 when the Roasted Chestnut coalition forced them
> out.Â* Thousands of sweet potato carts were abandoned, some dumped in the
> East River.Â* It was quite a battle for years.




Are they still dumping things into the East River. My 5 times great
grandfather's body was dumped into it after he was robbed and murdered
in the 1790s