On the evening of Friday, July 7, two days after the release of the hit game Pokémon Go, 26-year-old Rochester native Ian Gauger launched the game on his phone and headed out into his Brooklyn neighborhood to play.
Gauger, a Master student in the architecture program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, had arrived in New York City at the beginning of June for an internship with the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, and is staying near the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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