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'69 Mets: Win provided New York City with an escape

hen weighed against other famous New York City scenes of the late 1960s, the Mets' stunning world championship seems so simple, light and sweet.

The team gave the city a collective moment free of gravity and conflict, a form of civic and spiritual escape.

Imagine Woodstock for Rheingold drinkers.

Joan Miccio (nee Potterton) taught English at Arthur W. Cunningham Junior High School...

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