How Donald Trump helped save New York City

nypost.com ^ | February 7, 2016 | 6:00am | Steve Cuozzo

[TBP]

The Don has been very good for NYC. That doesn’t mean he should be president.

[Trumpinator]

The Don has been very good for NYC. That doesn’t mean he should be president.

-------

Who should? A lifetime govt employee politician trained as a lawyer?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Trump the prosperity preacher is going to make everyone rich. Don’t you know that? Just believe....believe and all your billionaire wishes will come true. He’s magic. /s

[TBP]

Someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have.

I do think he’d be a GREAT Mayor of New York — but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn’t support him for president either.

[kabar]

Nothing succeeds like success, especially if it is in the real world and not the political bubble.

[babble-on]

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.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I have wanted a businessman President for decades! Someone who knows when and where to spend money and when and where not to spend money.

[euram]

Trump isn’t perfect, but we’ve had enough of lawyers turned politicians. We don’t know exactly what he’ll do if elected, but we know what the others will do without having to wait and see, and that is NOTHING positive, just like all the career politicians we’ve elected over and over again. At least with Trump, we have a chance of something good coming of it.

[Trumpinator]

Someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have. I do think he’d be a GREAT Mayor of New York — but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn’t support him for president either.

-----

Ideology over competence. During the Civil War the north promoted generals based on their adherence the party line over their generalship abilities. It did not work out so well.

Trump is conservative enough. These litmus tests sometimes would disqualify Reagan for the GOP ticket.

[Trumpinator]

The article talks about where the boom happened - land projects long neglected by the commies running the city.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have ..

LOL.

You Purity Pansies are a caricature, now.

[nopardons]

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.

[TBP]

Look at his views on the issues and his history, and then get back to me.

[nopardons]

Giuliani would have been a far better nominee than McQueeg!

[Trumpinator]

Perfect is the enemy of the good.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. look at his views on the issues and his history, and then get back to me ..

No thanks.

I don't socialize with libs.

[miss marmelstein]

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!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. the Don has been very good for NYC. That doesn’t mean he should be president ..

Maybe short a roll or two, TP?

Embrace the accomplishment gap, between yourself and Trump. Do not be ashamed of it.

[miss marmelstein]

See my post 18; we’re going over the same ground!