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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 03:35 PM Feb 2019

Another Trump Place decides to take down the name

By David A. Fahrenthold
February 22 at 12:07 PM

On Election Day 2016, six residential buildings called Trump Place stood in a row on Manhattan’s Upper West Side ...

Soon, Trump’s name will be gone from all of them.

On Friday, the last building holding on to the name announced that it would take it down ...

One day earlier .. the second-to-last Trump Place building .. had announced its own decision to remove the .. name ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-the-second-time-in-two-days-a-building-called-trump-place-decides-to-take-down-the-presidents-name/2019/02/22/cf4480d6-36b9-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.fe600c778863

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Another Trump Place decides to take down the name (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
Excellent!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2019 #1
I remember passing those buildings and wondering how the residents... LAS14 Feb 2019 #2
Yesterday's and today's decisions were votes of condo boards struggle4progress Feb 2019 #5
A fugly omen portending Dirty Donny*s doom ? Achilleaze Feb 2019 #3
Trumps Ego gets another hit. too bad riversedge Feb 2019 #4
Womp de-freaking Womp Blue Owl Feb 2019 #6
Kickin' with gusto! Faux pas Feb 2019 #7
I wish they would take down the one in Chicago 3catwoman3 Feb 2019 #8

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
2. I remember passing those buildings and wondering how the residents...
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 03:38 PM
Feb 2019

... could stand it.

I can't read the Post article. They want $1 and we already subscribe to the Times and Globe.

Can anyone tell me who owns the buildings and how the decision was made?

3catwoman3

(23,975 posts)
8. I wish they would take down the one in Chicago
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 07:07 PM
Feb 2019

It is right on the river. We took an architectural river cruise on a beautiful sunny afternoon. The barge was moored right next to the Trump building. I pulled my hat down over my eyes until we pulled away so I didn't have to look at it.

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