Published Mar 17, 2004
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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Gothamist was there when the elephants from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey finally arrived, at 12:35am on a snowy Wednesday morning. The scene was wild- music, cheering, clapping, screaming. The elephants, however, seemed calm and healthy. More pictures at Bluejake.
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