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ARCHIVE, ENTERTAINMENT: The Original Gotham

With the release of the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” we take a look back at the inspiration for the original Gotham City: 1930’s and 1940’s era New York City.

Gangs ran the streets; Prohibition was enforced and then overturned; and marvels in engineering helped create the city’s iconic landscape, one skyscraper and bridge at a time.

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