While it dominates Long Island, North Shore recently bought Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.

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Often, the people injured in a disaster are literally color-coded by medical workers with colored tags, says Carl Ramsay, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, who has cared for people after an earthquake, airplane crashes, and large-scale fires.

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Now edgier parts of the borough are being celebrated, such as Fort Green (Spike Lee's home town), Dumbo (Down Underneath Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and Clinton Hill.

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