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Brooklyn man, French daredevil climb New York Times building

It was daredevil deja vu.

Just fives hours after the French Spiderman scaled the New York Times building on Eighth Avenue Thursday, a man from Brooklyn matched his death-defying feat by climbing to the tower's roof, raising questions about the skyscraper 's security.

Fueled by anger that hours earlier, Alain Robert, 45, had scaled his way barehanded up the facade of the 52-story Times...

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