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Josef Astor, a former neighbour, hangs a bag with food on the door of Elizabeth Sargent's studio apartment at the Carnegie Hall towers in New York on July 21. Sargent, a poet in her 80s, whose home for four decades was in one of the hall's two towers, must clear out of the city-owned space that is being gutted and rebuilt using tens of millions in taxpayer money.BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press

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The Carnegie Hall ballet studio, where it is said that modern American dance took its first steps with choreographers like George Balanchine and Martha Graham, is also being gutted for renovation.BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press

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The organ studio is seen after being gutted for renovation at Carnegie Hall.BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press

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