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The newest location of Shanghainese restaurant Joe’s Shanghai, which popularized soup dumplings in NYC, became a destination for a neighborhood hit hard in the past year

VIEW FROM HERE-While most the nation was rural in 1890, those who lived in urban areas were crowded together as walking was the most common form of locomotion.  As a city’s radius became too great for walking, horse drawn trolleys were introduced.  Soon motorized trolleys were the wonder of intra-urban transit – when compared to their alternatives: horses or walking. The thrill of New York City and skyscrapers like the Empire State Building ingrained in our minds how futuristic city-life ...