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With a sweeping view of the Hudson River in the background, members of Westpride, a group opposed to Donald Trump's proposed Television City, gathered this week in a 43rd-floor restaurant of a Central Park building and prepared for battle.
The battleground lay outside the window, on the Hudson waterfront, from 59th to 72nd Streets, where Trump is proposing to build a collection of buildings that would house 7,600 apartments, a five-block shopping mall and almost 10,000 parking spaces. One building, proposed to rise 152 stories, is being billed as "the world's tallest building."
Members of Westpride feel such a concentration of buildings will bring in all kinds of pollution - from cars to crowds. The increase in density will endanger a good mix of residential neighborhoods and small business sections, said Steve Robinson, a Manhattan architect, West Side resident and co-chairman of Westpride.
Westpride will ask for a scaled down version of Television City, Robinson said. The project has not yet been approved by the...