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A slew of critics who vowed for years to bury Donald Trump's development vision for the Upper West Side came to City Hall yesterday to praise him.
Speaker after speaker who had fought bitterly against plans for the huge "Trump City" development along the Hudson River spoke glowingly of the sharply scaled-down replacement that a kinder and gentler Trump had negotiated with some of them since December.
"We on the West Side are glad it's in our area," said City Council member Ronnie M. Eldridge. Trump, the titanically boastful and feisty dealmaker of the 1980s who had scorned many of the civic groups as not reflecting the desires of the community, was replaced yesterday by a conciliatory Trump humbled by his financial problems of the 1990s.
His Trump City plan for the 76-acre former Penn Central railyard site between 59th and 72nd Streets was replaced by a project that he grudgingly let the civic groups dub Riverside South for the time being. He stood alongside Mayor...