He and his wife rented a townhouse in lower Manhattan after their original plan to move to a posh apartment block on the Upper East Side fell afoul of neighbours horrified by the hordes of camera crews.

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Alexander's, a department store chain that went bankrupt and closed in 1992, owns an entire city block on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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Alexander's, a department store chain that went bankrupt and closed in 1992, owns an entire city block on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

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In the Big Apple, however, Cintron ended up finding a "mother lode" of pay phones, 15 of them on a seven-block walk up Broadway on New York's Upper West Side.

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