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Horse home, sweet horse home. Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg opened the new stables for the NYPD's Mounted Unit at Pier 76, near 36th Street. The new stables had to move after being faced with eviction by the Hudson River Park Trust, which wanted to continue renovations to the park and take over the space near 23rd Street.

Basketball City, that puffy structure off the West Side Highway on West 23rd Street will need to leave tomorrow, since the city wants to get working on continuing to improve Hudson River Park. The fight to stay at Pier 63 (which the Villager called "political football" back in 2004 when its lease expired) even escalated to the point where Basketball City claimed bankruptcy in an attempt to stay, while parks advocates have been eager for the facility to leave. Crain's reports Basketball City's owners are looking for a new space, but they do not think they'll find anything until next year. One partner, Bruce Radler, said, "We'll easily lose 50% of our revenue." Until then, Basketball City "will continue to run some of its corporate and youth leagues renting space in an ad hoc consortium of school gyms."

- We're still not sure if we're excited about Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars, but here's the transcript from his Larry King interview