The couple also sold their apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, and moved to a luxury building on Park Avenue South.

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The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.

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But with less than a month to go before the final vote, organisers announced a new venue deal with the New York Mets baseball team, which is building a new home in the borough of Queens.

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For that, sponsors are still waiting out the final verdict on a new building, whether it goes up on Long Island or Queens, lest the club move in with the Nets in Brooklyn or leave the market altogether.

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