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The Department of City Planning, under the orders of Bloomberg has discovered that the city's land mass is less than originally thought. After spending months analyzing aerial images the geographer of the department, Michael Miller, reports that the five boroughs contain 304.8 square miles, while for 20 years it's been documented at 322 square miles.

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