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We were out last Friday taking shots of cars parked in the new Select Bus lanes on 34th Street -- you know, the ones NYPD has pledged to help keep clear. If only we had walked a few blocks west we might have hit the mother lode.

This shot, submitted by a tipster, is of 34th between 8th and 9th Avenues. Is this Midtown South precinct parking? VIP detail? The aftermath of an anti-terror swarm? Does it matter?

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