FILE - This Nov. 12, 2007 file photo, show real estate developer Douglas Durst at Purchase College's 40th Anniversary Gala in New York, where Durst was honored by the college with a Nelson A. Rockefeller award. An urban renewal war over a crumbling Hudson River pier has turned into a battle between New York billionaires. Media mogul Barry Diller and his wife, designer Diane von Furstenburg would like to transform Pier 55 on Manhattan's West Side into an undulating, futuristic island park and performance space, which Durst opposes.(AP Photo/Gary He, File)
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