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ALBANY — Call it Javits Lite.

Gov. Cuomo yesterday strongly suggested he’s willing to compromise on his plan to replace the Javits Convention Center on the West Side with a Battery Park City-style development while building a huge new center at Aqueduct Race Course in Queens.

“You could leave part of Javits,’’ said Cuomo, when asked about criticism that Manhattan hotels will be hurt and some exhibitors won’t want to travel to Jamaica when coming to the city for trade shows.

The governor outlined a plan for a $4 billion, 4 million-square-foot, convention center in his proposed state budget that would be privately funded by Malaysian-based Genting Group, which opened a huge racino at Aqueduct late last year.

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