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The New York Daily News called
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The plan introduced this week had been promised by Mayor Thomas R. Vezzetti, who pledged in the campaign that led to his June election to curb the development of luxury condominiums that he said had displaced low- and middle-income
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Welch, Matt (2009-06-01). "Hiking in
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