In some neighborhoods, like Fort Greene, just about anyone can join nannies, business owners, dogs.

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"My record is 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes and I'm going to break it hopefully just by eating it like a beast, " said Chestnut, who is vying for his sixth title.

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"Tell me in what part of the world do you find a cemetery with bodies of girls who didn't do anything wrong - they just worked - and for that they have been raped, tortured and murdered, their bodies thrown into the desert like dogs, " said Victoria Caraveo of Mujeres por Juarez, a local women's group.

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