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Swimmers take on East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn Bridge Park for NYC Swim event

More than 400 swimmers made their way from Manhattan to Brooklyn today via the East River as part of the NYC Swim event. The participants came not only from Brooklyn, but traveled from all over the

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