Facing massive financial pressure due to his mounting debts , Trump acquiesced and formed a partnership with his critics , formally the Riverside South Planning Corporation ( RSPC ) . While noting that Trump 's abandonment of his original plan came as a surprise , Paul Goldberger , in his appraisal of the final Riverside South plan , wrote that " Riverside South , the huge project planned for the 72-acre former Penn Central rail yards on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , now stands a real chance of being a cause for celebration rather than embarrassment . " With a master plan by Skidmore , Owings & Merrill/Paul Willen , FAIA , the RSPC compromise project was approved in 1992 without the television studios and office space that Trump had substituted for some of the residential space . The final project size was with of television studios still possible on the two southern blocks . Aside from a major new park , the community was promised a significant enhancement to Freedom Place , an existing four-block street behind a Lincoln Towers parking garage , including a monument to replace a plaque commemorating the three civil rights workers who were killed in Mississippi in 1964
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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Riverside South, Manhattan