Noreen Doyle

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 1:19 p.m.

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The president and CEO of the Hudson River Park Trust offers a too-modest explanation of its popularity: \\u201cI think there\\u2019s a universal urge that people have to see and connect with water.\\u201d Melville writes something similar at the start of Moby-Dick. Different ending, though.

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