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honk their horn, they didn’t stop their vehicles; they just didn’t notice them even though they were 100 feet away. Despite canoeing and camping, the City was their visual backdrop. Cohrs said that they were almost always within view of the Empire State Building or the World Trade Center tower. “It’s a very beautiful area,” said Cohrs. “Canoeing there and camping there is gorgeous, but there is a whole invisible fac- tor of toxicity, which