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Vidya Padmanabhan

Vidya Padmanabhan is a writer who lives in Newark.

Collecting a City

By Vidya Padmanabhan

For a 30-year-old New York firefighter, Dave Herman is a throwback to a different time when neighbors knew each others’ names, perhaps even borrowed cups of sugar for their baking.

Wall of Lady Liberty postcards. Courtesy of the Vidya Padmanabhan.
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