They began gathering early Saturday morning, trekking out from Brooklyn and Manhattan in sensible footwear and khakis, to see Hillary Clinton announce her bid for president. This was, technically, not the first time Hillary announced: that came in the car insurance ad the campaign released in mid-April. But presidential announcements are the new birthdays: you have to stretch out the fun for as long as humanly possible. And so Hillary fans found themselves on Roosevelt Island, formerly a home for the city’s poor and socially undesirable, with the skyline looming large in the background, listening to Katy Perry and Pharrell on repeat. "We are in the shadow of Manhattan and we're in the shadow of Queens," said Chris Bastian, a Brooklyn Heights transportation coordinator wearing a vintage Hillary t-shirt. "New York is the microcosm of America. It's got rich, and very rich. It's got poor and very poor. It's got Hispanic, Asian, young, old, retirees. Every voter Hillary is going to run into out on the campaign trail."

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