Last updated on February 24th, 2019 at 04:35 am
Residents of a Manhattan condominium complex have voted to have the Trump name scrubbed from the exterior of their building, new reporting shows.
According to The Washington Post, “The name ‘Trump Place’ will come down from a New York building’s facade after condo owners at 120 Riverside Blvd. voted to have the name removed.”
The move comes after 55 percent of the building’s condo owners voted in favor of having the name removed from the exterior.
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According to The Post, it’s the second time in four months that the name “Trump Place” was taken off a building at the request of its residents.
As the Washington Post‘s David Fahrenthold pointed out on Thursday, this is the sixth instance in which a New York City building has removed Trump‘s name since 2016.
BREAKING: Another NYC building named after @realDonaldTrump has voted to take his name down.
The “Trump Place” building at 120 Riverside Blvd will be the 6th NYC building to remove Trump’s name since 2016. https://t.co/r1XNGqDzpb— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 21, 2019
The Trump name is absolutely toxic
This isn’t an isolated incident. As David Fahrenthold also noted, there were six buildings called “Trump Place” on Election Day in the upper west side of New York City. Now there will only be one.
Additionally, four hotels have had the Trump name taken down – in Rio, Panama, Toronto and SoHo in New York.
While Trump‘s business won’t be financially impacted by Thursday’s news, Fahrenthold pointed out that it’s just more evidence that the president’s name is toxic in New York City, the “hub” of his real estate business.
In a tweet, The Post reporter noted that Trump condos have been seeing their resale value decline.
For this specific building, there’s zero financial impact. Trump Org lost the contract to manage it years ago.
Bigger concern: more evidence that their brand is toxic in NYC, the hub of their real estate biz. @CityRealtyNY has already found Trump condos losing resale value. https://t.co/EObw8dQQcq— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 21, 2019
In other words, the city that knows Donald Trump best – the place he and his family have called home for decades – wants nothing to do with him.
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Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
