Upper west siders generally know about rent control, wegmans, saturday night live, the safest places & times to go in central park and morning side park but not much else to speak of. The newbies there only know about the Trump skyline on the west side. They don’t know about Trump’s earlier life in the 70’s & 80’s & 90’s in NYC. Trump has been a fixture in NYC for a long long time.
I am out in fly-over country. My introduction to Trump was via 'Cindy Adams' pieces on 'the Donald'... Trump was a 'business man', and I really never paid much attention to him, and never watched his Apprentice show... But I have heard out of Trump's own mouth that his first job was in Ohio, sent there by his father... And he is particularly fond of Ohio and lessons learned there. Trump has repeatedly stated that he got a 1 million dollar loan from his dad to start his business... and that he repaid that loan...
I am amazed at all the 'fake news' filled with green eyed envy over an American success story.
Well, if you grew up on the UWS in the 1950s, you’d know all about this. The UWS was a mixture of middle class Jews, who lived on West SIde Avenue, the Drive or CPW, and in between on the side streets,Irish, Italians and Hispanics. There was a large scattering of elderly or dysfunctional SRO (single room occupancy) residents starting in the 1960s. Except for certain areas, it only became “hot” in the late 1990s. Parts of it are still not “hot.”
Trump was gruesome tabloid fodder for years because of his spectacular divorces. He did a great thing with the Wollman Rink and various other initiatives after that, but he never seemed to move on politically and dropped out of the mayoral race, His real niche came with his reality TV shows and that was the type of business he was good at doing.
I’m not criticizing or saying this is bad, simply that it wasn’t the normal way of doing politics but perhaps that’s why he won, But he’s done a good job of picking people with experience and good conservative ideas and I think it’s all going to be fine.