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Hundreds of people gathered near the steps of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York on World AIDS Day Thursday, congregating at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic that struck the nation in the 1980s. The crowd listened with quiet reverence as the names of some of the 100,000 people who died in the city since the epidemic's deadly heyday were read. With the flip of a sign, the patch of grass outside the hospital was declared the NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent's Triangle.