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- ↑ List of newspapers in the United States by circulation
- ↑ Helfand, Zach (13 March 2023). "A Coup at the WestView News". The New Yorker . Retrieved 19 March 2023.
New York is a city of neighborhoods, and each has its own paper...The city has a hundred and sixteen of them
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