Trump Village

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{{short description|Residential complex in Brooklyn, New York}}

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|location = Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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|completion_date = 1963–1964

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|building_type = Residential

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|architect = Morris Lapidus

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|developer = Fred Trump

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Trump Village is a seven-building cooperative apartment complex in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York.{{cite web|title=Trump Village Apartments|url=http://www.emporis.com/complex/102246/trump-village-apartments-new-york-city-ny-usa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821154108/http://www.emporis.com/complex/102246/trump-village-apartments-new-york-city-ny-usa|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 21, 2016|website=Emporis|access-date=August 12, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Fahim|first1=Kareem|title=Brooklyn Towers Have Trump Name but No Limos|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/nyregion/09trump.html?_r=0|access-date=August 12, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=April 8, 2010}}

History

The apartment complex was built in 1963–1964 and developed by Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump.{{cite news|last1=Kasperkevic|first1=Jana|title='What election?': Trump Village residents aren't enthusiastic about their namesake|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/19/what-election-trump-village-residents-arent-enthusiastic-about-their-namesake|access-date=August 12, 2016|work=The Guardian|date=April 16, 2016}} The complex, built on the site of the former Culver Depot,{{cite book |last=Denson |first=Charles |title=Coney Island and Astroland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVNG35jlce8C&pg=PA16 |access-date=September 9, 2013 |year=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0738574288 |pages=16–17}} was designed by architect Morris Lapidus.

The construction cost US$70 million.{{cite news|last1=Snyder|first1=Gerald S.|title=Millionaire Calls Work His Hobby|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7174250/|access-date=August 12, 2016|work=The Bridgeport Post|location=Bridgeport, Connecticut|date=July 26, 1964|page=65|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}} It was supported by the New York State Housing Finance Agency through public bonds issued by the state of New York, coupled with tax exemption.Gwenda Blair: The Trumps. Simon & Schuster, New York 2016, p. 205 f. Five out of the seven buildings were part of the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program until 2007.

It is the only Trump-branded building complex named by Fred Trump rather than his son Donald.{{cite news|last1=Badger|first1=Emily|title=How Donald Trump abandoned his father's middle-class housing empire for luxury building|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/10/the-middle-class-housing-empire-donald-trump-abandoned-for-luxury-building/|access-date=August 15, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 10, 2015}}

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