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Reporter in the Metro section of the New York Times. Author of Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year among the Oldest Old.

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Is New York's Love-Hate Relationship With Horse Carriages Over at Last?

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By John Leland Verified
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New York's City Council seemed poised to finally ban carriage horses from Central Park last week, with a strong push from the council speaker and conditional support from the mayor. If the ban goes through, it will be the end of an era. That era, of course, is the era of battles over carriage horses in Central Park. Almost from the day the first ones appeared in the 1860s, critics have sought to ban or regulate them.
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Is New York's Love-Hate Relationship With Horse Carriages Over at Last?

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By John Leland Verified
| Breaking One
New York's City Council seemed poised to finally ban carriage horses from Central Park this week, with a strong push from the council speaker and conditional support from the mayor. If the ban goes through, it will be the end of an era. That era, of course, is the era of battles over carriage horses in Central Park. Almost from the day the first ones appeared in the 1860s, critics have sought to ban or regulate them.
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How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives

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By John Leland Verified
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NEW YORK -- They began as strangers playing chess in Central Park. Frank was a scholar of South Asian textiles, known to friends as a guy who will lend a hand. Lincoln was homeless, living on a sidewalk on 59th Street. Paul was an older man living alone, in an apartment across the street from the Dakota, one of New York's storied addresses. They formed the kind of casual friendships that can happen over a chessboard.
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