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Yeah, I also really have to question this guy’s time frame. I moved to NYC in 1985 and it was booming. And had been for a while. There must have been 30 big apartment projects going up on the Upper East Side at the same time Trump Tower was being worked on. He was riding a wave, not causing one. His activity in turn became part of the wave, but he was neither the prime mover nor the only part of it. It was Reagan and the bull market in Bonds and Stocks that made NYC rich, and it happened on Wall Street. It wasn’t real estate developers, it was bond houses that made the city boom.

Obviously you didn't read the article.

Trump started this in the early '70s, when real estate and NYC were on their last legs! You practically couldn't give away a a luxury co-op; let alone sell one and the Markets were in the doldrums...laying off people left & right!

And his West Side project, where the old rail yards had been a blight and an eyesore for MANY decades, was way ahead of its time. Trump is a visionary and sees things as they could be, long before others ever get a glimmer of an idea about the future.

You're nothi8ng but a JOHNNY-COME-LATELY to NYC and never took the trouble to become a REAL New Yorker, who knows the history of the city where you live. And you also have a lousy memory...the '80s in NYC was filled with strikes, piles of garbage on the streets, murders, muggings, and your UES "BUBBLE" wasn't exempt from any of that.

The Reagan revolution hit NYC just like it did the rest of the country. But NYC was still immersed in the disastrous last terms of Ed Koch. All you may remember is the Wall Street boom and lunches at Ruth Chris but I remember the street crime, the subway crime, graffiti, City Hall corruption (Donald Manes), Bernard Goetz, Korean delis constantly under siege, Jewish neighborhoods constantly under siege and a myriad of other disasters. There was never a time that Donald Trump didn't speak out about all these messes culminating in his outrage over the Central Park Jogger case. And during all this time, when he could have pulled up stakes, he kept on building, kept on being a part of the social makeup of NYC. He didn't like being a social swan or drake but he was dragged into it by sister-in-law Blaine and eventually he ditched that part of his New York persona. But he never forgot his dream to build. His transformation of the west side near the highway cannot be compared to other builders of the boxlike apartments I lived in for 30 years - the ones that were hilariously excoriated by Tom Wolfe in “Bonfire of the Vanities.”

He is and always will be a booster of NYC and an American patriot. He is a fighter and not a quitter. He will bring all of this to the White House if he is lucky enough to serve. Go Trump!