Ms. Shin, a Brooklyn artist who has created public works for the Long Island Rail Road and a Battery Park City elementary and middle school, has designed pieces in mosaic and glass for the 63rd Street station, which will be expanded to accommodate the Second Avenue line.

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But the city already has a smaller high-tech park which has been incubating small companies for several years and is now attracting big hitters like Microsoft, which has opened a research center here, and US videoconferencing company WebEx.

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While the city has a long history of embracing free expression, circumstances at the park had become "intolerable, " he explained.

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The New York City Parks Department has plans to use that park as a pedestrian walkway and told the judges to park their vehicles elsewhere.

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Thomas Merrill, a professor at Columbia Law School who has studied the public trust doctrine, agrees the city can't transfer a public park into private use without permission of the state Legislature.

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One Osaka project, to build a Universal Studios theme park, has been dogged by allegations that the city has been helping one of its private-sector partners, Sumitomo Metal Industries, to avoid the cost of cleaning up the contaminated land on which the park is to be built.

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The 60, 000 capacity ground at Stanley Park has been unanimously approved by Liverpool City Council planning committee after a five-hour meeting.

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Former Fulham, England, Manchester City and Newcastle United manager Keegan has been out of the game since quitting St James' Park for a second time last September.

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In the men's event Austria's World champion Martin Rettle has a good chance of winning gold after coming second in the Olympic test run at the Park City track last season.

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