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| | Relocation Blues by Steven Malanga |
 | | Meanwhile, state and city officials haggled for years over the plan to redevelop Ground Zero, with some observers, including Mayor Bloomberg, pessimistically calling for a reduction in the office space planned for the site, assuming that it would be unneeded. |
 | | The city, state, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have spent 25 years trying to develop land on the Queens waterfront, with little to show for it, due to government agency squabbling. |
 | | By contrast, the LeFraks and their Newport City partners have built 20 residential and commercial towers on the Jersey City waterfront in less time. |
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