There's a cluster of them right in the middle of town on top of the City Hall, and no matter what direction you go you're, you're looking at a camera.

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As a symbolic gesture to the public, the venue is marking the changeover with a free concert on Thursday that will include acts from Broadway shows ("Chicago, " "Avenue Q, " "Phantom"), plus the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, the Town Hall Broadway's Rising Stars Chorus, and others.

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More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation of Orient House, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.

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