Word: gansevoort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mitchell's hands the city skyline, tugboats, river barges, even rodents have a singularity that others overlooked: "A lust for blood seems to take & hold of the brown rat. One night, in the poultry part of old Gansevoort Market, alongside the Hudson, a burrow of them bit the throats of over three hundred broilers and ate less than a dozen. Before this part of the market was abandoned the rats practically had charge of it. Some of them nested in the drawers of desks. When the drawers were pulled open, they leaped out, snarling...