Trump Village

Trump Village
Interactive map of the Trump Village area
General information
TypeResidential
LocationConey Island, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Coordinates40°34′42″N 73°58′25″W / 40.57828°N 73.97358°W / 40.57828; -73.97358
Completed
1963–1964
Design and construction
ArchitectMorris Lapidus
DeveloperFred Trump

Trump Village is a seven-building cooperative apartment complex in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York.[1][2]

History

The apartment complex was built in 1963–1964 and developed by Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump.[1][3] The complex, built on the site of the former Culver Depot,[4] was designed by architect Morris Lapidus.[2]

The construction cost US$70 million.[5] 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.[6] Five out of the seven buildings were Housing cooperatives while the other two were rental apartment buildings under the Mitchell Lama affordable housing program, which in 2007 exited the program and privatized into market rate luxury housing.[2][3][7] After the housing development left the Mitchell Lama program, there was a significant increase of grievances being filed from the remaining residents who had moved in under the original affordable housing program about mistreatment from the housing staff and the loss of government ombudsman monitor over tenant rights protections they once could access when it was a government contracted housing development.[8]

It is the only Trump-branded building complex named by Fred Trump rather than his son Donald.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Trump Village Apartments". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Fahim, Kareem (April 8, 2010). "Brooklyn Towers Have Trump Name but No Limos". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Kasperkevic, Jana (April 16, 2016). "'What election?': Trump Village residents aren't enthusiastic about their namesake". The Guardian. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Denson, Charles (2011). Coney Island and Astroland. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-0738574288. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ Snyder, Gerald S. (July 26, 1964). "Millionaire Calls Work His Hobby". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. p. 65. Retrieved August 12, 2016 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ↑ Gwenda Blair: The Trumps. Simon & Schuster, New York 2016, p. 205 f.
  7. ↑ "The Incredible Shrinking Mitchell-Lama Program". Habitat Magazine. September 7, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  8. ↑ Gannon, Devin (August 21, 2017). "Loss of affordability at Coney Island's Trump Village highlights issues with the city's Mitchell-Lama program". 6sqft. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  9. ↑ Badger, Emily (August 10, 2015). "How Donald Trump abandoned his father's middle-class housing empire for luxury building". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
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