Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie h Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore few people owned automobiles so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.

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