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In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, photo, Sean Bausert stains a chair at the Veterans Caning & Repair shop in New York. In a dusty, cluttered shop that seems oddly out of place in modern New York, a group of artisans is among the last still practicing a dying trade: chair caning. The painstaking art of weaving furniture details in a honeycomb pattern is still in demand, mostly for repair work, but the shop that's been around since the 1860s is under threat from a new wave of high-rise development on Manhattan's west side. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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