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Across China, entire cities of luxury mansions, marble staircases, Gothic churches, and billionaire-grade theme parks now stand abandoned, rotting in the open air. Cattle graze between $850,000 villas ...

Despite the big plans, only around 9,000 people have moved to Forest City since the work began several years ago.

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A late elderly Brooklyn couple who voluntarily cared for an abandoned city-owned World War I memorial in a once-overgrown patch of park were honored Tuesday in a touching Veteran’s Day ceremony.