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...New YorkEver since the distant day in 1524 when a Florentine captain named Giovanni da Varrazano dropped anchor in the Hudson and thereby became Manhattan's first out-of-town visitor ("A very agreeable situation," he penned approvingly of the harbor), the idea and the fact of New York City have sparked the dreams of explorers -- from the original robust advocates of adventure and independence to latter-day Jasons on age-old quests for power and pelf, status and fame, balm and sensua...