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Lurking behind Mayor Michael Bloomberg's dramatic bid to make the landmark Tweed Courthouse his school headquarters are the political alliances and rivalries of the Manhattan museum world.
The big loser in Bloomberg's scenario is the Museum of the City of New York in East Harlem, which enjoyed favor in Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration.
Its top official, Robert MacDonald, recalled yesterday how "so much time and money and energy had been invested in moving the museum to Tweed," a Giuliani initiative Bloomberg has put the brakes on.
The museum at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, whose board members have ranged from writer Pete Hamill to former Koch administration Deputy Mayor Ronay Menschel, had hired architects and lined up exhibition...