Posted on 02/08/2016 12:47:19 PM PST by Trumpinator
How Donald Trump helped save New York City
By Steve Cuozzo
February 7, 2016 | 6:00am
Long before Donald Trump stamped his name in gold on buildings around the world, posted snarky midnight tweets and joined the race for the White House, he was New York’s most important and bravest real-estate developer.
Whatever you think about his political views or crazy campaign, Trump doesn’t get enough credit for being a transformative planner who is in love with the city.
No matter how many times they watch “Taxi Driver,†younger New Yorkers and older ones who arrived recently have no idea of what the city was actually like in the mid-1970s through the mid-’90s. Notwithstanding Studio 54 and a short-lived Wall Street boom, the metropolis was reeling. Rampant street crime, AIDS, corporate flight and physical decay brought confidence to an all-time low.
Trump waded into a landscape of empty Fifth Avenue storefronts, the dust-bowl mugging ground that was Central Park and a Wall Street area seemingly on its last legs as companies moved out.
Except in Battery Park City, which was then as remote as an offshore island, few other developers built anything but plain-vanilla office and apartment buildings. Trump — almost by force of will — rode to the rescue. Expressing rare faith in the future, he was instrumental in kick-starting the regeneration of neighborhoods and landmarks almost given up for dead.
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I do hope that what we both posted opens so eye to the actual FACTS; though I doubt that the HOLIER THAN THOU PURISTS care.
Bingo
You look at Trump’s ACTUAL positions, instead of the anti-Trump propaganda your side posts and then YOU get back to all of us!
I hope so!
In a word, yes.
Love the Donald, by the way. The article is right on. I was in New York from the mid-'70s through the mid-'90s. I've pointed out for years how the economic and cultural comeback of NYC is the direct result of Donald Trump's and Rudy Guiliani's vision and practical instincts.
I've just decided over the last few months that his gifts don't look as if they translate to policy creation and execution. He doesn't seem to operate by principles. He has loyalties--which are great. Country, work, military, opportunity. But the policies you create in government will be there after you and your personal loyalties are gone. What the Founders created was a system that, more than any other, was less vulnerable to personalities. To save our republic, we need someone who knows how to build on that.
I bet that nobody even b others to read our posts.....because they are FACTUAL and not part of the anti-Trump propaganda they prefer; sadly.
After you said yes, your explanation did not explain how someone can work for the govt all his life can calls himself a limited govt conservative. It’s hypocritical. Govt jobs for me but not for thee.
Well, sadly, you are right. This hatred towards Trump is reminiscent of the hatred when Guiliani ran. I understand totally disagreeing with G about his stance on abortion but they denigrated every aspect of his career. Just as they’re doing with Trump. A man who actually uses the word “Muslim” when he wants to speak about what is bad for America! In today’s PC climate, that passes for courage.
And the FFs are ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES over the fact that THREE ( now TWO ) ineligibles are running!
So we wound up with McLame as the nominee and Obama won. :-(
NYC was fast becoming one big cesspool before Giuliani. Giuliani saved NYC. He was a great mayor and I would have supported him for NY Senator. I didn't support him for president though.
I still think however, Rudy, warts and all, was much, much better than McCain or Romney.
I agree completely, though that is not setting the bar very high.
Yes, indeed. The silly cross-dressing photos from the shows that are performed every year. I forget who put them on. Police or Firefighters or something.
On a personal note, before my brother moved back to NYC, he and his kid would stay at the Trump hotel on Columbus Circle. What an amazing building! The hotel room was circular as I remember with spectacular views of Columbus Circle and the park. The carpets were deep and plush and...oh, my! was it worth every penny my brother paid for the room.
So basically you’re saying you want the same ole-same ole dyed in the wool politician?
We have unique problems in the land these days and we need someone with vision as well as the ability to navigate the waters. There are very few visionaries on the face of this earth.
I’m GLAD to see that Trump had a few OOPS and OHMY’s along the way. Those are crucial experiences for growth and learning, essential for each and every human being for the same reason.
I remember NYC in the early 70’s before the twin towers were even completed. They were fully erected, but the skin needed to be finished on the top quarter of one of them.
The only thing I remember about Staten Island was Battery Park.
My dad lived in that city and he took us everywhere, we experienced everything including watching a bunch of punks leaping onto the fairly new vehicle of an elderly man and woman, slathering paint with brushes all over their vehicle, then pulling the elderly man from the vehicle, beating him up and leaving that old man crumpled in the middle of the intersection.
It was a dirty, filthy city full of run down old buildings with the exception of a few new ones going up and that included the twin towers.
I remember watching a woman with about 100 purses scattered all around her as she slept on the steps of Madison Square Garden...totally passed out. And I remember watching in wonder as people walked around Time’s Square at night wearing absolutely nothing more than bed sheets.
I remember the pollution being so bad, you couldn’t see the towers on the Geo. Washington bridge even when you were right under them, and when you washed your hair, the water was green from the grime in the air. Daily.
It was a scary place, for sure, but also exciting. I remember asking my dad to take us to Central Park, he refused. He just said it was a bad place.
I was just a visitor, a teenager, but teens don’t miss much. They see the good, they see the bad.
I’ve been in and out of NYC several times since, it’s cleaned up a lot, but you still have to watch yourself, pay attention to your surroundings.
And no city except perhaps Boston, can beat the food! The best in the world, and memorable.
Trump has a goofy personality, but that’s just the exterior. He’s high on the list of who’s who, and doesn’t act like that around the average person.
Thank God he’s not confined to the political box.
I had an orthopedic surgeon who was the team doctor for the New York Islanders. He was about 5'3" with small hands and I doubt he could play hockey. This did not make him a hypocrite. He was a brilliant surgeon who knew how the body works when it's playing hockey, and how to fix and heal hockey players.
The Founders relied on history to show them the principles and results of various experiments in government, as well as their own experience. Some were bankers, investors, farmers, tradesmen, and military men. But the architects of the actual system we revere were lawyer-politicians like John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams, to name a few. I believe that right now, we need a leader who knows history and the science of governance, and has a passion for liberty.
Trump wants to put America first and make it great again? Do you prefer the never ending line of law clerks turned career politician and their corrupt policies of perpetual decline?
The Lawyers Association along with the city government of Chicago put on a similar CHARITY SHOW every year.
ALL OF THE ELITE BOYS BOARDING SCHOOLS AND SOME OF THE CO-ED ONES, AS WELL AS THE IVY COLLEGES, HAVE PUT ON "HAIRY LEG SHOWS" FOR 100sOF YEARS....LONGER THAN THIS COUNTRY WAS A NATION! Of course, I doubt that today, with all of the PC crap, etc. those schools and colleges do it any more.
The problem, here, is that the vast majority of posters don't know ANYTHING at all about such things! Neither do they care to become knowledgeable about anything outside of their own twee bubbles.
WOW....that sounds marvelous...and yes, your brother's hotel room sounds as though it was worth every penny spent!
When we used to come into the City, from Chicago, we would stay at a suite at The Waldorf Towers; though once we did stay at the Pierre. I prefer the Towers. :-)
Saved New York City? Well, I won’t hold it against him. He can still be my second choice after Cruz.
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