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New York Downtown Rediscover the place thatis shaping the new NYCBy Peter Jon Lindberg
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N
o one can agree precisely when i
sared, le alone where i sars. Souho Houson Sree? 14h? 23rd? Does i in-
clude he arher-flung galleries o Chel-
sea? The Financial Disric? Do he leafier
blocks o he Wes Village sill coun, or are
check-cashing joins and graffii a prerequi-
sie? Some say Downown New York is less
a place han an idea, more abou sensibiliy
han geography. (For he purposes o our
discussion, les call i he swah beween
14h and Chambers Srees, rom he Hud-
son o he Eas River.).
The one hing New Yorkers can agree
on is ha Downown jus eels differen. You
sense i he minue you cross ha dispued
border. Few ciyscapes have such recog-nizable iconographyhe cas-iron aades
o SoHo, he Belgian blockpaved lanes o
TriBeCa, he waer owers puncuaing roo-
lines like squa wooden rocke ships, he
hoardings plasered wih dance-mix ads, he
congee joins and Puero Rican bodegas, he
bodega ha las Tuesday became a bisro.
Funky. Grity. Hip. Eccenric. Indie.
Irreveren. Cool. The prefix Downown hascome o connoe all sors o hings, no all o
hem endemic o Lower Manhatan. Down-
owns atiude and aesheic have been
codified, commodified, and sold in a million
pieces, such ha any clued-in kid visiing
rom he mainland can dress he par and
pass as a local. And while is sill he de
aco hub, Downown no longer corners he
counerculural marke in New York. Ariss,
designers, and musiciansand he galler-
ies, shops, and clubs ha suppor hemare
increasingly drawn o he cheaper reaches
o way-Upown and he ouer boroughs. Is
a sign o he imes ha mos o New Yorks
op rock acs (MGMT; TV on he Radio; heNaional; he Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Sanigold;
he Hold Seady) are based in Brooklyn.
You migh conclude ha he bohemian
culure Downown nurured as is own has
up and moved elsewhere. No quesion, his
isn he Lower Manhatan o your uncles
hard-core band. Money, boh corporae and
Our team looks at the big ideas, cutting-edge architec-
ture and design that are shaping the new New York.
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privae, plays more o a role here han ever:he median price o a wo-bedroom condo
is $1.37 million, compared wih $315,000 in
1993. No even 9/11 could knock Downown
off is genriying rajecory. Today, he area
has ar ewer ar galleries, ar ewer poery
clubs, and six American Apparel sores. I is
markedly easier o buy eye shadow han a
New York Dolls record.
Ye underneah he spi-shine gloss
in he cracks beween La Perla and LOcci-
aneha churning, invenive, pioneering
spiri improbably surges on. You can see i in
he young provocaeurs o ashion, ar, and
design who ollowed heir muse o Lower
Manhatan, in spie o he coss. You canhear i a experimenal music venues like
(Le) Poisson Rouge and he Sone (run by
avan-garde hero and longime Downown-
er John Zorn). You can knock i back in he
innovaive new breed o cockail barsin-
cluding PDT, Pegu Club, Mayahuel, and
Deah & Co.ha are ransorming New
York nighlie. Downown has become he
anchor o he ciys resauran scene, as well
as he preerred locaion or new hoels. And
aer decades in he doldrums, New York is
finally back o creaing bold new archiec-
ure, much o i below 14h Sree: Winess
he abulous New Museum, opened in 2007
on he Bowery, and, nearby, he soon-o-rise headquarers or he Sperone Weswaer
gallery, designed by Norman Foser. Even
hose inerloping luxury brands and naion-
al chains are copping a Downown edge:
consider Derek Lams sriking new SoHo
sore, by Japanese firm sanaa (who also de-
signed he New Museum), or J.Crews acu-
ally-quie-hip mens emporium in TriBeCa,
he Liquor Sore (co-conceived by Andy
Spade). I one reads anyhing abou he his-
ory o New York, one sees ha is a whole
differen ciy every en years, says Sean
MacPherson, who, wih he Bowery Hoel,
has done pleny o define he curren phase.
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View from the Rock-
feller Center
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Then and Now - Downown Rebirh
Id say his imeable is off by abou, oh, 10
years. These days, Downown changes isel
every oher week.
More han mos pars o New York, Down-
own readily evokes Then and Now, Beore
and Aer. Hisory is orever bursing o he
surace here, like he underlayers o sub-
way posers or las seasons blockbusers.
For his reason Downown also evokes in isdenizens a keen sense o nosalgia, usual-
ly o he pessimisic sor: Everyhing wen
downhill aer Floren/CBGB/he Mudd
Club closed. Alphabe Ciy was beter when
i was jus ariss and dealers and hieves.
TriBeCa was beter when i didn exis. I
moved o Manhatan a age 24in ime o
cach Jeff Buckley a Sin- bu oo lae o
glimpse Basquia chalk-paining sidewalks.
Whenever you arrived, i seems, you were
eiher oo lae or oo old.
A avorie lamen concerns he Fall o
SoHowhere, eigh years ago, in a meaphor
oo preposerous o make up, he Downown
branch o he Guggenheim Museum was
replaced by a Prada sore. Is rue ha So-
Hos mos recen meamorphosis is sarling
even in a ciy defined by meamorphoses.
Bu oo oen we neglec he long viewand
across is hisory, he curious expanse be-
ween Houson and Canal Srees has seen
pleny o ebbs and flows. Mosly armland
SoHo (South of Houston)
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in he 18h cenury, i became, by 1825, one
o he riches and mos densely populaed
neighborhoods in Manhatan. John Jacob
Asor was a principal landowner. Bu rend-
iness had is drawbacks. The 1860s saw an
influx o high-end reailTiffany; Lord &
Taylorha orced ou a quarer o is res-
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as 1985, when Marin Scorsese sho his cul
classic Aer Hours here. The film sarred
Griffin Dunne as an Upown Mr. Jones los
down he rabbi hole o prehedge und
SoHo and TriBeCa. In he course o one
long nigh hes accosed by burglars and
mohawked punks, flummoxed by a kinky
sculpress, chased by an angry mob, and
ulimaely sen back o Midown encased in
plaser o paris.
You cerainly couldn find a place o
spend he nigh back hen, unless you counhree-dollar SROs. High-end hoels were
scarce Downown unil he mid-90s, when
a handul o bouique properies made in-
roads. Now heyre on every oher block. The
pas 18 monhs have ushered in Rober De
Niros Greenwich Hoel, in TriBeCa; Sean
MacPhersons Jane Hoel, in he Wes Vil-
idens. (Does any o his sound amiliar?) I
was a his ime ha SoHos iconic archi-
ecure ook shape: he grandly ornamened
commercial buildings and warehouses cladin cas iron. Bu in he 1890s reailers began
relocaing Upown, and SoHo spiraled ino
decline; hrough he firs hal o he 20h
cenury i became a waseland known as
Hells Hundred Acres.
The Fluxus aris George Maciunas
really pioneered SoHo as a place o live and
work, explains Lisa Phillips, direcor o
SoHos New Museum. Saring on Wooser
Sree in 1967, Maciunas se up co-ops in
disused cas-iron buildings. So began he
rise o New Yorks mos amous ariss col-
ony. I was abou more han jus affordable
space, Phillips says. I was abou seeing
beauy in unconvenional environmensliving in hose inerzones, in places ha
people wouldn normally hink o as sae.
Is easy o orge how desolae he
ciy used o eel souh o Houson Sree. In
1970, TriBeCa had only 243 residens. To-
day, i has 26,151. Downown sill came off
as a wild, vaguely menacing ronier as lae
History is forever bursting
to the surface here, like the
underlayers of subway posters
for last seasons blockbusters.
Houston Street
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lage; Andr Balazss he Sandard, New York;
he Cooper Square Hoel, designed by Carlos
Zapaa Sudio; and he jus-opened Cros-
by Sree Hoel, in SoHo, he firs saesidepropery rom Londons ever-sylish Firm-
dale group.
Downowns hoel boom has helped o
lure a relaively new demographic over he
pas decade: ouriss. Indeed, some week-
ends here appear o be more visiors on
Spring Sree han in Times Square. No sur-
prise, eiher, or SoHo and is saellie neigh-
borhoods have become reail desinaions o
rival Madison Avenue, wih boh global and
homegrown brands, ousize flagships and
back-alley bouiques cheek-by-jowl.
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Click here to see the
best places to stay
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Bowery Hoel
335 Bowery
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Crosby Sree Hoel
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848 Washington St
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Best Hotels in Downtownlage; Andr Balazss he Sandard, New York;
he Cooper Square Hoel, designed by Carlos
Zapaa Sudio; and he jus-opened Cros-
by Sree Hoel, in SoHo, he firs saesidepropery rom Londons ever-sylish Firm-
dale group.
Downowns hoel boom has helped o
lure a relaively new demographic over he
pas decade: ouriss. Indeed, some week-
ends here appear o be more visiors on
Spring Sree han in Times Square. No sur-
prise, eiher, or SoHo and is saellie neigh-
borhoods have become reail desinaions o
rival Madison Avenue, wih boh global and
homegrown brands, ousize flagships and
back-alley bouiques cheek-by-jowl.
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Today even Upown girls sray as ar souh
as (gasp!) Howard Sree, on he grungy
ringes o Chinaown, o peruse he racks a
Opening Ceremony. Carol Lim and Humber-
o LeonU.C. Berkeley grads whod worked
or Bally and Burberrycoounded he bou-
ique in 2002, selling heir own line o cloh-
ing alongside a mix o labels rom Europe,
Asia, and Souh America. A branch in Los
Angeles ollowed. In Augus he duo openedan eigh-sory deparmen sore in Tokyo.
Bu heir hears remain in Lower Manha-
an, specifically he alernae universe o
Howard Sree.
This is a iny pocke o Old New York, Lim
ells me. Even when we opened in 2002,
i was desered aer 7 p.m. Ye hey ound
pleny o kindred spiris. Up he block is E.
Vogel, he 120-year-old cusom shoe place;
Ted Muehling, whos made jewelry around
here since he 90s; and newer sores like De
Vera and BDDWis his incredible litle
sree.
The culinary landscape, oo, has exploded.
Clohes, Food and Rocknroll
Howard Street
In conras o a decade ago, mos o New
Yorks resaurans-o-he-momenhose
ha aren in Brooklynare below 14h
Sree: he Spoted Pig,Locanda Verde, heWaverly Inn & Garden, Eletaria, and he
genre-deying, desinaion-defining resau-
rans o Keih McNally (including Balh-
azar, in SoHo; Pasis, in he Meapacking
Disric;Schillers Liquor Bar, on he Lower
Eas Side; and he new Mineta Tavern, in
Greenwich Village). And hen here are he
Lower Eas Sides WD-50, where relenless-
ly innovaive Wylie Duresne conjures his
meaphysical cuisine, and David Changs
border-jumping Momouku empire in he
Eas Village. Is hard o imagine hese later
resauransdefianly casual, ofea, o-
en quie affordableexising anywhere bu
Downown. And is appealor boh dinersand resauraeursremains undiminished
(i no enhanced) by he areas genrificaion.
As Graydon Carer, co-owner o he Waver-
ly Inn, says, In any oher ciy, downown
connoes a raffish, unbahed, counerculur-
al sensibiliywha Republicans would call
edgy. In New York is all o ha, plus is
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geographically accurae.
Even Upown ches are migraing souh.
Daniel Boulud, whose namesake French
resauran ses he sandard or Upper EasSide fine dining, has arrived on he Bow-
ery, o all places, wih a resoluely inormal,
resoundingly loud boe called DBGB Kich-
en & Bar. (Yes, he name is a pun on CBGB,
whose ormer quarers are jus up he block;
he legendary rock club closed in 2006.)
Hearing he Replacemens blasing while
sampling Bouluds noe-perec charcuerie
is quie he novely. Bu i heres a discon-
nec beween his name and he neighbor-
hood, Boulud doesn see i. Ive been a
New Yorker or weny-five years, and jus
happened o drop my suicase Upown, he
says. Ive been coming down here jus as
longparying, visiing riends. So openinga resauran here seemed naural.
Bu Boulud migh no have chosen his
quirky srip were i no or he uurisic
edifice looming down he sree. The New
Museum recalls a seven-sory sack o gi
boxes (an allusion o SoHos reail ransor-
maion?). The seting is incongruous: wo
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restaurants, shops
and nightclubs
DBGB Kitchen & Bar
blocks norh o a shop wih a sign proffer-
ing CASH REGISTERS, SLICERS, SCALES,
BANDSAWS and wo doors up rom he
Bowery Mission homeless sheler. Ye he
museum embraces is conex wih an ex-
uberan HELL, YES! (so reads he rain-
bow-colored sign on he aade, an insal-
laion by Swiss aris Ugo Rondinone). The
purview is global, ye he curaors are dedi-
caed o exhibiing ariss who sill live and
work in Downown, such as he up-and-
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DBGB Kitchen & Bar
connoes a raffish, unbahed, counerculur-
al sensibiliywha Republicans would call
edgy. In New York is all o ha, plus is
geographically accurae.Even Upown ches are migraing souh.
Daniel Boulud, whose namesake French
resauran ses he sandard or Upper Eas
Side fine dining, has arrived on he Bow-
ery, o all places, wih a resoluely inormal,
resoundingly loud boe called DBGB Kich-
en & Bar. (Yes, he name is a pun on CBGB,
whose ormer quarers are jus up he block;
he legendary rock club closed in 2006.)
Hearing he Replacemens blasing while
sampling Bouluds noe-perec charcuerie
is quie he novely. Bu i heres a discon-
nec beween his name and he neighbor-
hood, Boulud doesn see i. Ive been a
New Yorker or weny-five years, and jushappened o drop my suicase Upown, he
says. Ive been coming down here jus as
longparying, visiing riends. So opening
a resauran here seemed naural.
Bu Boulud migh no have chosen his
quirky srip were i no or he uurisic
edifice looming down he sree. The New
Museum recalls a seven-sory sack o gi
boxes (an allusion o SoHos reail ransor-
maion?). The seting is incongruous: wo
blocks norh o a shop wih a sign proffer-
ing CASH REGISTERS, SLICERS, SCALES,
BANDSAWS and wo doors up rom he
Bowery Mission homeless sheler. Ye he
museum embraces is conex wih an ex-
uberan HELL, YES! (so reads he rain-
bow-colored sign on he aade, an insalla-
ion by Swiss aris Ugo Rondinone). The
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French, Steakhouses, Cocktails
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The Deroi naive vividly recalls his firs
rip o New York in 1977a pi lgrimage o
see he Ramones a CBGB. Now, in CBs old
digs, Varvaos embraces his inner rock geek:selling vinage vinyl, displaying punk mem-
orabilia, saging ree concers, and reaing
he room less like a clohing sore han, well,
a club. We see i as a culural space, he
says. No way are we rying o emulae wha
was here beore, bu we waned o keep o
he hisory, and o keep music alive in he
Bowery. We have a sage and a P.A., so on
any given day, people show up and play
he guys rom Cheap Trick, Ringo Sarr,
he New York Dolls. And pleny o curious
young rock ans who aren remoely iner-
esed in ashion drop in o he sore jus o
see where CBGB once was.
coming Corsican-born mulimedia aris Ag-
ahe Snow and esablished ariss like Laurie
Simmons.
We were keen o bring a grea work o ar-chiecure o he ciy, and o his sree spe-
cifically, Phillips says. The hope is ha he
Bowery will become a sor o laboraory or
experimenaion in archiecure and design.
Is cerainly become a bona-fide ouris
desinaion. And he museum has spurred
an unexpeced revival o he Bowery: be-
sides DBGB and he Bowery Hoel, recen
openings include Double Crown, a resau-
ran-lounge rom design collecive AvroKO;
he clohing emporiumBlue & Cream; Bow-
ery Elecric, a bar and rock club co-owned
by musician Jesse Malin; a soon-o-debu
pizzeria rom McNally; and, in he ormer
CBGB space, a splashy John Varvaos sore.Hold on, you sayhe birhplace o punk
rock is now a ashion bouique? Well, as
Dave Navarro o Janes Addicion pu i
recenly, Beter his han a Pinkberry. To
Varvaoss credi, rock and roll has always
been par o his brands aesheic; he even
hoss a monhly music show on Sirius XM.
Before and after: The famous nightclub CBGB was closed
in 2006, and reopened as John Varvatos, a designer
menswear store.
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Downown is a place o endless collisions
and near-misses, where disparae worlds
rub up agains one anoher wih remarkable
amiliariy. Heres Yonah Schimmels bak-
ery (opened in 1910) abuting an ar-house
cinema; heres he Bowery Hoel sidling
up o a mehadone clinic. In an Eas Village
basemen, he sulry speakeasy PDT hides
behind an unmarked door in a ho dog join,
while over on he Wes Side, a derelic ele-vaed reigh railroad is abloom wih flow-
ers, ransormed ino he ciys newes park.
The High Linehe ormer railroad in ques-
ionis an ap symbol or Downowns
quirky charms, sruggles, and (coninual)
rebirh. Ye were i no or he vision o wo
ordinary ciizens, aris Rober Hammond
and wrier Joshua David, he High Line
migh be jus a memory. Hammond moved
o New York in 1993 and was capivaed by
he Meapacking Disric and Wes Chel-
seasemi-indusrial areas ha weren ra-
diionally beauiul, ha some consider eye-
sores. The High Line in paricular caugh
his imaginaion: a rused jumble o seel
High Line - Railroad Rebirh
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girders, concree, and shadow ha wound
hrough Manhatans ar wes side. Buil in
he 1930s, he 1.45-mile-long railway had
been unused since 1980 and was markedor demoliion. A a communiy board hear-
ing on he subjec in 1999, Hammond me
David, and he wo ounded Friends o he
High Line, an advocacy group dedicaed o
saving he srucure. FHL would go on o
raise $150 million o recas he railway as a
pedesrian park.
Downown has more o he juxaposiions
I love abou New Yorkhe glamorous and
he grity, he hard and he so, he old and
he new, Hammond says. Thas why I love
he High Line: Who would have imagined a
seel srucure wih wildflowers growing on
op? The firs secion o he park opened
las spring o rave reviews. The High Linehas culural atracions as well as is ine-
graed archiecure and plan lie. As par
o a long-erm plan or he park o hos
emporary insallaions and perormances
o various kinds, Creaive Time, Friends o
he High Line, and he New York Ciy De-
parmen o Parks and Recreaion commis-
sioned The River Tha Flows Boh Ways by
Spencer Finch as he inaugural ar insalla-
ion. The work is inegraed ino he window
bays o he ormer Nabisco Facory load-ing dock, as a series o 700 purple and grey
colored glass panes. Each color is exacly
calibraed o mach he cener pixel o 700
digial picures, one aken every minue, o
he Hudson River, hereore presening an
exended porrai o he river ha gives he
work is name. Creaive Time worked wih
he aris o realize he sie-specific concep,
which emerged when he saw he rused, dis-
used mullions o he old acory, which me-
al and glass specialiss Jaroff Design helped
o prepare and reinsall.
The High Line is an apt symbol
for Downtowns quirky charms,
struggles, and (continual) rebirth.
View from the top of theHigh Lane
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Counerculure Revival
There are hose who eel Downown has be-
rayed iselor, more o he poin, hemin
he name o mammon, ha money has bro-
ken Downowns spiri. Resenmen over
genrificaion is nohing new, bu is grown
increasingly biter in he pas 15 years. (ThaGuggenheim-Prada swich didn help.) For
he firs ime in Manhatans hisory, i has
no bohemian ronier, declared Adam Go-
pnik in The New Yorker in 2007. Anoher
booksore closes, anoher heaer becomes
a condo, anoher soulul place becomes a
sealed residence. MacPherson seconds Go-
pniks alarm: I oen wonder, Do we really
need so many banks?
Bu i he effecs o millennial prosperiy
were undeniable, he effecs o recession are
now plainly visible. Soreron vacancy raes
in New York are a heir highes since he
early 1990s, and a ull one in 10 reail spac-
es in SoHo are presenly unoccupied. Wihprices loosening up a litle, MacPherson
says, here migh be more room or more
advenurous projecs..
So will he soening o he real esae mar-
ke spark a revival? Will poes and sculpors
recolonize Lower Manhatan? Phillips is
opimisic. Downown sill represens he
vanguard o he counerculure. Theres sillCity Hall Park
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neighborhood rom her youh, when he
Lower Eas Side was sill dominaed by
working-class amilies. Is ransormaion
ino a rendseters basion is now complee,hough races o he Old World remain: in
he cacophonous weekend markeplace on
Orchard Sree; in he discoun underwear
shops run by Orhodox Jews; in he bril-
lianly conceived Lower Eas Side Tenemen
Museum, which documens he era when
his immigrans gheto was he denses con-
urbaion on earh.
Federman sudied or an MBA a Yale and
worked in inernaional developmen and
healh care and as a yoga eacher unil a ew
a lo o renegade hinking ha akes place
hereand he downurn is going o bring
even more changes.
Ar and music do seem o be more inspiredwhen people are sruggling, Jesse Malin ob-
serves. Downown always needs ha nex
kick in he ass.
I novely is one o he only consans in
New York, here are also places whose con-
sancy is he novely. Places ha have held
on so long hey migh as well be preserved
in vinegar. Places like , he Jewish appeiz-
ing shop has occupied he same Houson
Sree soreron since 1920. Is he sor o
spo where you migh join a nonagenarian
widow, a atooed drummer, and Harvey
Keiel in line or bagels and whiefish.
All hese hipsers whove setled in he
neighborhood are now discovering us,says Niki Russ Federman, he 31-year-old
grea-granddaugher o ounder Joel Russ.
Youll see hem chating wih he grand-
mohers, sharing ipsOh, you have o ry
he wasabi-roe and cream-cheese sand-
wich!
Federman remembers a wholly differen
years ago, when she began o consider join-
ing he amily business. She go an unex-
peced boos rom a Downown icon. I was
a a riends pary, and Lou Reed happenedo be here, she recalls. Id brough some
hors doeuvres rom Russ & Daughers, and
Lou was hovering around he able, devour-
ing he smoked salmon. Someone finally
old him who I was. He marched righ over
and shook my hand and said Niki, I jus
waned o sayyoure New York royaly.
Lou Reed! I almos dropped on he floor.
And when Lou Reed speaks, Downowners
lisen. No long aerward she sared work
a he shop.
Russ & Daughters occupied the
same Houston Street storefront
since 1920
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The one hing New Yorkers can
agree on is ha Downown jus
eels dieren. You sense i he
minue you cross ha dispued
border. Few ciyscapes have
such recognizable iconography.
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