Second building in two days:
WaPo: For the second time in two days, a building called 'Trump Place' decides to take down the president's name
On Election Day 2016, six residential buildings called "Trump Place" stood in a row on Manhattan's Upper West Side — a legacy of Donald Trump's efforts to develop that site, and a sign of the Trump name's enduring value in New York.
Soon, Trump's name will be gone from all of them.
On Friday, the last building holding on to the name "Trump Place" announced that it would take down the president's name, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.
That email, sent out by the condo board at 220 Riverside Boulevard, said that it had held a vote of building owners, and that owners representing 83 percent of the building had cast votes.
"Of the 83 percent [that] voted, 74.7 percent voted to remove the signage, and 25.3 percent voted not to remove the signage," the email said.
"Over the next several weeks, we will select a company to carry out the required work" of removing the signs, the board said.
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These decisions signal how Trump's politics has become a weight on his brand in some of the foreign countries and liberal U.S. cities, particularly Manhattan, the city that gave him his start. At both of these buildings, residents were willing to spend money to remove any trace of Trump's name from their facades.
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Then, in 2017, a condo building at 200 Riverside also considered the idea. Before they made a decision, they got a letter from the Trump Organization, which said the building was required to keep up the sign, by a licensing agreement signed in 2000.
If it was removed, Trump lawyer Alan Garten said, the company "will have no choice but to commence appropriate legal proceedings."
The building at 200 Riverside sued the Trump Organization instead, and a judge ruled it could remove the sign if it wanted. Last October, it did.
That left just two "Trump Place" buildings — the ones that voted to remove the sign this week.
