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Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Movement-Yorks-Long-Take-Streets/dp/1531508219">Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back its Streets from the Car</a>.

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