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Is NYC trying to go sin-free?

First it was your cigarettes. Then it was your cheeseburgers.

Now they want your racing form.

The Bloomberg administration announced yesterday that it would not bail out its Off-Track Betting Corp., meaning that the city's OTB parlors may soon go the way of quarter peep shows on 42nd Street.

By June, all of the city's 73 betting parlors could be gone, once the city stops funding...

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