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The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street

... that the People's Library (pictured) was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park, New York?
... that the Stillwell Avenue/Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station?
... that, unlike other Colonial Revival post offices in New York, the Lenox Hill station on Manhattan's Upper East Side has two main entrances on either side?
... that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001?
... that a meeting on May 24, 1963 brought black leaders together with U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who complained, "You can't talk to them the way you can talk to Martin Luther King"?

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