Which Way Is the River?

By ALAN ROGOWSKY

Dear Diary:

From the Useful Information Department.

Overheard in front of the subway station at West 72nd Street and Broadway.

Woman: “Which way is the river?”

Policeman: “That way. Or that way. We're on an island.”

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