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'Refugee Camp' To Be Put Up In Central Park
'Refugee Camp' To Be Put Up In Central Park
By TERRANCE DEAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
February 22, 2006
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By TERRANCE DEAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
February 22, 2006
Visitors to Central Park and Prospect Park this September will encounter an 8,000-square-foot tent city.
The "refugee camps" won't house any actual refugees, but are designed to help New Yorkers understand what it is like to live in one.
The exhibit is planned by a humanitarian group, Doctors Without Borders, and is called "Refugee in the Heart of the City."
Use of Central Park for out of the ordinary activities has been a source of heated political controversy in the city in recent years. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude faced 26 years of opposition before finally mounting their "Gates" in Central Park in February 2005. And Mayor Bloomberg successfully fought a court battle to prevent a large anti-war protest rally in Central Park during the Republican National Convention in 2004.
The refugee camps, however, have been granted permits and have so far apparently not been met with any objections.
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