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• Trembling at the thought that its Yankees might leave town forever, the stone-broke metropolis ponied up an estimated $100 million to provide the likes of 6,900 parking spaces .
• A few years ago, he remarked wistfully that he wished he could "wake up stone-broke .
• But a stone-broke Evans has lost her home.

• broke
• bust
• skint
• stony-broke