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I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Barbara Corcoran

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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
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Edgewater
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Barbara Ann Corcoran
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