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| "Having the Trump Name on the Buildings is Embarrassing" Says Realtor |
Trump real estate holders have banded together to remove the President-elect's name from their buildings.
According to the New York Times, residents at 140, 160, and 180 Riverside Boulevard received an email today from Mary Pawlisa, a senior regional manager for Equity Residential, the group that owns the building. It said: "This week, the Trump Place building names will change to the street addresses — 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Boulevard. The purpose of this change is to assume a neutral building identity that appeals to all current and future residents."
This email appears to be the direct result of an online petition titled "Dump the TRUMP Name," which received hundreds of tenant signatures in October.
Last month, Trump press secretary Hope Hicks told the Times that Trump had not heard of the petition and that it seemed like "an inappropriate thing to do."
"If the name comes off, the building will lose tremendous value," she said.
In reality, the Trump name has been discredited.
Linda Gottlieb, the resident who started the petition feels like the tenants won. "We used the power of protest to say that we don't have to accept the spread of the man's influence into our very homes," she told the Times. "To me, it feels like a cleansing of the place where I live."
by SAM DANGREMOND and CAROLINE HALLEMANN
NOV 15, 2016
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