Metropolitan Diary: ‘She Pulled a Book Out of Her Bag to Show Him What She Was Reading’

Watching two people meet on a downtown No. 1, left behind on New Year’s Eve and other reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

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