In New York, he tried unsuccessfully to buy the One Madison Park condo tower, a project overlooking Madison Square Park, which stalled in the downturn.

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The company is partnering with Match.com in offering an online contest to singles to meet up for a first date at the Madison Square Park event.

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American Express is throwing a pair of Manhattan bashes, one in Rockefeller Center and one in Madison Square Park, where match viewing and clever games rule the day.

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The firm's MSREF Fund VII, raised in 2008 and 2009, has purchased the two Russian malls, a Manhattan office building near Madison Square Park with a partner, and a portfolio of distressed Australian property loans.

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"No Limits" has something in common with "Topsy Turvy, " the camera obscura in Madison Square Park, created by artistic partners Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder: Both works offer a new image of the Flatiron Building.

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And in one of the neatest art installations we've seen this week, Leo Villareal announced plans to install a 30-foot-tall "Buckyball" sculpture that's made up of 180 glowing LED tubes in New York City's Madison Square Park later this year.

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Theater is New York and New York is theater, and New York is not much like the rest of the country. (Shake Shack, a summertime favorite in Madison Square Park, has a menu for dogs.) New York is one of the world capitals of self-importance.

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Baseball woud be staged at the famous Yankee Stadium, tennis at Flushing Meadows, basketball at Madison Square Garden and the triathlon in Central Park.

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