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FILE - Robert Caro poses for a portrait, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK – Receiving an award from one of Manhattan's oldest cultural institutions, The New York Historical , had Robert Caro thinking about childhood.

“It (New York Historical) has been a very integral element of my life since I was a little boy," Caro said Wednesday night during his brief remarks as he accepted the first-ever Historians' Laureate Medal in the organization's 221 year-old existence.

A native New Yorker who grew up near what was then called the New-York Historical Society and still lives just blocks away, Caro remembered many visits growing up as he walked around the neighborhood with a favorite aunt.

"Among the various honors I’ve bee

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