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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The Don has been very good for NYC. That doesn’t mean he should be president.
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Who should? A lifetime govt employee politician trained as a lawyer?
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
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.
Nothing succeeds like success, especially if it is in the real world and not the political bubble.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The article talks about where the boom happened - land projects long neglected by the commies running the city.
LOL.
You Purity Pansies are a caricature, now.
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.
Look at his views on the issues and his history, and then get back to me.
Giuliani would have been a far better nominee than McQueeg!
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
No thanks.
I don't socialize with libs.
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!
Maybe short a roll or two, TP?
Embrace the accomplishment gap, between yourself and Trump. Do not be ashamed of it.
See my post 18; we’re going over the same ground!
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