What’s in a name? For three New York City apartment buildings, it’s no longer “Trump.”
Workers pried 3-foot-high gold letters spelling “Trump Place” off the buildings Wednesday.
In some places, a shadow of the old name still lingered. The workers scraped and power-washed the surface where the letters had been.
New signage now displays the buildings’ street addresses.
Hundreds of residents had signed a petition to remove the name after the release of a recording of Donald Trump talking about women inappropriately.
The Chicago-based company that bought the buildings in 2005 says the goal was a “neutral building identity.” Equity Residential chairman Sam Zell tells The New York Times the petition signed by tenants had “no role” in the decision.
(AP)
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I doubt they’d remove Clinton’s name.
To Donald Duck…
It was the tenants who wanted the other Donald’s name off the building…it was not an arbitrary decision by the building management. It is reasonable for them to not want to have a name on their residences which is upsetting to many. We can find many analogies where streets, building, federal installations, etc. have been renamed based on short-term political agendas and subsequently restored to their original names. Remember the JFK Space Center (now back to Cape Canaveral, etc. Would the frum daveners in a new shul purchased from the former Reform owners of the building keep the name of some Reform “gadol” on the building “for ole times sake” or historical objectivity?
To no. 1: Clinton’s name was not on the building.
There are many streets in New York State named Clinton, to honor DeWitt Clinton, an early (maybe the first) governor of New York.
To no. 1: And just to confuse you a little more, there is a neighborhood in Manhattan called Clinton (West Side, 30’s – 40’s). And just to confuse you a lot more, Clinton is just north of Chelsea.