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| | Martian robots take orders from Manhattan | ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | NEW YORK — These days, when one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars some 200 million miles away, the commands come from Lower Manhattan, from a second-floor office on Elizabeth Street, surrounded by dusted-off tenements. |
 | | Now its old storefronts are of-the-moment restaurants and stores, and the only trace of the neighborhood's immigrant past is in its name: NoLIta, North of Little Italy. |
 | | So two decades ago, when he was a mechanical engineering graduate student at Columbia, he set up his robotics shop in Manhattan, first on the Lower East Side on Ludlow Street, then, five years later, moving to the current location on Elizabeth, a former electrical power substation built in 1922. |
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