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By Eliot Brown 12/02/08 9:08pm

City (Probably) Taps Van Valkenburgh for West Side Park

It seems the Bloomberg administration has chosen landscape designer Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to build a new West Side park, though there’s no official word yet from the city.

Last night at a forum on the West Side rail yards, both Vishaan Chakrabarti, an executive at the Related Companies who is leading Read More

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