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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi landed in court today. Well, in the audience, along with 100 other activists, who are all supporting a lawsuit that aims to keep NYU from the full breadth of its massive expansion plans by designating four specific sites untouchable parkland. "I'm just a concerned mother, [a] Village resident. There's not a lot of places to play downtown," she told the Post. Alas, no resolution was reached at today's hearing, but the judge did ask both sides to submit written arguments in two weeks. [NYP; previously]