But when it came to NYC...no one would touch it.
NYC was poison. The politics went back hundreds of years.
Trump went in there and made a fortune--changed the skyline.
How any human being could do that is beyond me.
My small investment banking group was first in the country by a certain metric (I attribute its success to the team of which I was leader but a small part). We wouldn't know where to even begin in NYC. It is a vast swamp of politics and graft.
Only a bona fide genius could do what Trump did. And he makes it seem simple.
It was not simple.
“NYC was poison. The politics went back hundreds of years.”
To Boss Tweed, or even earlier.
“Trump went in there and made a fortune—changed the skyline.
How any human being could do that is beyond me.”
It is beyond me too, and I worked with high end commercial RE developers for 25 years in Los Angeles.
“Only a bona fide genius could do what Trump did.”
A remarkable confluence of intellectual brains and “street” brains.
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