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City officials looked on as bulldozers razed Manhattan's last homeless shantytown, making room for Donald Trump's new luxury development by the Hudson River.
The belongings of some 45 people were plowed away after nightfall in the rain, while "Trump's people watched, dressed in business suits," said Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless.
The real-estate mogul said the West Side encampment had to be demolished to make way for a mammoth housing project that will also include low-income units.
More than 140 officials from 12 city agencies, including the Police Department, showed up Wednesday night to sweep the cement coal bins under West...