Private events such as Fashion Week and the Big Apple Circus have subleased the park for up to 10 months a year, making much of it virtually off-limits to the neighborhood, the residents say.

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Other than pricing, Apple hit it out of the park with the iPad Mini.

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In other NYC news, we covered an underground park in the Big Apple which is to be illuminated entirely by fiber optics.

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The other Steve had his picture on the cover of Time while in his 20s, dated Joan Baez, owned an apartment in the famous San Remo on Central Park West in New York City, left Apple for 11 years, came back, saved Apple and died too young, at 56.

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