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We Stood on Both Sides of the New York–Dublin Portal and It Was Glorious
Hundreds of people and two WIRED reporters gathered at the Portal, which is open again after being closed due to “inappropriate behavior.”
David: When I arrived at the Dublin Portal just before 2 pm local time, it reminded me of the initial days of the project, when it seemed like it was living up to its promise and bringing a tiny piece of joy to this otherwise miserable world. “The new locations have 10 times more footfall and thousands of people approaching them, and also Lithuania and Poland have spent half a century inside of a prison called the Soviet Union—that is mostly why the culture is a bit more calm compared to Ireland and the US.” David: Of the hundreds of people who showed up at the Portal during the hours I was there, many of them were Americans on vacation in Ireland, maybe eager to see that everything back home was OK. Kiino Villand, a photographer from Los Angeles, was in Dublin to visit his daughter.
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