Keeping Out the Masses, Keeping in the Few
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Gates are intimidating portals usually meant to keep out hoi polloi (the masses) and keep in the pit bulls.
Occasionally, they can be grand, befitting hoi oligoi (the few), and in this deluxe era it is not surprising that such gates are rising in Manhattan.
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