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De Blasio, a Democrat, has said he wouldn’t do any new business with Trump.
Is that any way to treat a man who’s doing so much to ensure Hillary gets elected?
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I would have thought that New York City owned the name to the park, unless the official name is not ‘Central Park.’ But just like Trump to profit off the reputation created by others.
I have just one objection to your article, and that’s where you write:
"…more than two decades ago, when the park had a far less glamorous reputation than it does today."
I grew up in suburban New York and lived in Manhattan from 1972 through 1978, which qualifies as “more than two decades ago,” and have wonderful memories of a beautiful Central Park. There was ice skating in the winter, and in the summer, Schaeffer Beer produced rock and pop concerts at the then empty ice rink. There are memories of Barbra Steisand and Simon & Garfunkel performing for hundreds of thousands in the park. My wife and I would go to Bethesda Fountain and take the rowboats out. We’d have Sunday picnics in the park. Yes, back then you would pass people advertising ‘loose joints’ and selling grilled street meat on a stick, but believe me, that was part of the charm.
Yes, there was crime. One stayed out of the park at night. I’m not totally looking back with rose-colored glasses. But the one time that I was a victim of crime (and one time was one too many) took place not in Central Park, but just blocks from my Upper West Side apartment, at 7 o’clock at night, on 80th street just after I turned up from Broadway. That was 43 years ago, when - I guess - the Upper West SIde ‘had a far less glamorous reputation.’
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Trump once owned the Plaza Hotel along Central Park South, operates a skyscraper hotel overlooking the park and famously renovated the park’s once-downtrodden ice rink.
I’ve run around the reservoir many times. Can I claim it?
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Yes, the years you reference you have done accurately. But the article references 1991, which is more than two decades ago (they did not reference more than 3 decades ago, they were just putting the year 1991 in perspective). From the article:
“His first application came in 1991, when the city’s violent crime rate was near its height and the park often conjured up fears of urban danger. There were 2,154 murders in the city that year, as opposed to 328 last year, and 1991 was just two years removed from the Central Park jogger case in which a woman was attacked and raped while running through the park.”
And as a lifetime NYer who has lived in Manhattan all my life, I will attest to the above for sure.
The city can allow use of the name, and usually takes a piece of the action. Give Trump credit, it was a good move, though the more likely scenario is that one of him more savvy attorneys floated the idea, and he went with it.
Many of Trump’s Central Park products are not currently in production, but they can be found in some discount stores and gift shops.
A preview of Mr. Trump’s life in about 4 months.