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It’s a classic “What might have been” tale: A handsome young man wanders the streets of the Village on a beautiful fall day in 1960. A clown delights a quintet of kids on the sidewalk in front of a grocery store. The players in this serendipitous drama cross paths at Sheridan Square, within the viewfinder of Voice staff photographer Gin Briggs.
We know from the rest of that November 17, 1960, paper’s front page that future mayor John Lindsay had been re-elected to Congress a week earlier, that District Attorney Frank Hogan was promoting a plan “by
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