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NYC fire hydrant earns twice minumum wage

NYC fire hydrant earns twice minumum wage

| May 5, 2014 | 0 Comments

The dome-headed, knee-height object looks like an average fire hydrant, but the water gusher on Forsyth Street in New York City’s Lower East Side is netting the city extraordinary gains: $33,118 annually, Ben Wellington estimates. The statistics professor from Pratt Institute, studying figures from NYC Open Data, suspected something was amiss when one address repeatedly […]

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