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Your Guide To The Best Drinking Fountains In Manhattan
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 4, 2012
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Published Sep 4, 2012
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Recently, we learned that street vendors have been jacking up the price of bottled water to $3 a pop—which is absurd for several reasons, not least of which is that we have arguably the best tap water in the country, with more than one billion gallons a day piped in from the Catskills and elsewhere to our homes, businesses and parks. There's no need for anyone to pay money to quench their thirst in this city! To that end, we enlisted drinking fountains aficionado Jacob Daniels to help guide us around the best drinking fountains in Manhattan. Click through for an H20 tour of the island, from the tip of Bennett Park to end of the isle in Battery Park.
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