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    THE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER

    Apr 01, 2020 3 minutes
    by Barbara Lerman-Golomb

    New Yorkers are resilient. As the song, “New York, New York” goes, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. There’s no better example of a tough, hard-working New Yorker than the mighty oyster.

    In the early 1600s, there were 220,000 acres of oyster reefs in what is now New York City. The waterways were pristine, teeming with diverse marine species—whales, otters, turtles, a huge variety of fish, and mollusks like oysters. Oysters were a plentiful

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