DEVELOPER Fred Trump (1905-1999) began building middle-class houses in Queens from a very young age, during the 1920s, and built Trump Market at Jamaica Avenue and 78th Avenue in the 1930s; he sold it to King Kullen shortly after he opened it, and there is still a supermarket on the site, which was marked by a plaque placed there by the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society (it was removed in the wake of the riots at the U.S. Capitol on 1/6/21).
Trump Village, the project for which he is best known in Coney Island, was constructed in 1963. He married Mary McLeod in 1936 and had four children, Maryann Trump Barry, Fred Jr., (who died in 1981) Elizabeth, Donald and Robert. One of his philanthropic efforts helped fund a pavilion in Jamaica Hospital that bears Fred and Mary Trump’s names.
The two houses where Fred Trump raised his family and where the future President grew up can still be found in Jamaica Estates.
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10/23/22
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Saw a photo of Fred Trump and some hired fashion models smiling
and holding up bricks in front of the Steeplechase pavillion,the implication
being that they were soon going to start chucking the bricks through the
many glass panes and start the demolition of the place.Some would find
that in extremely poor taste today.
On a visit to the aquarium, my Mom took me as a 5year-old down the boardwalk to see the closed, abandoned & condemned Steeplechase park & told me about how wonderful it was. I remember being frightened of the large cartoon face, but fascinated by the building itself, wishing we could go in & look around. Years later, when I found out about Fred Trump’s brick-throwing “party” I was horrified, but not surprised…
Hasn’t the Trump name been removed from the Jamaica Hospital wing as well?
Yes, it was.
You have the order of his kids wrong, plus left out his other daughter. It goes: Maryann, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, Donald, Robert.
Fred C. Trump Sr. was not unlike his father, also named Fred Trump, who made his money in the Yukon during the Gold Rush, not digging for gold himself, but by being a saloonkeeper. Figure out which dreams ARE realizable, and go for them. For Fred, it was building apartment buildings in Brooklyn and Queens. Not bad, but not quite Harry Helmsley either. His namesake son Freddy and his son Robert didn’t share their brother Donald’s ambition.
I had no idea Fred Trump had anything to fo with the protests on 1/6. Apparently, the Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong in these people.
“it was removed in the wake of the riots at the U.S. Capitol”
How very Sovietesque: throw the father down the memory hole because of his son.
man, I remember on tv seeing Fred trump break into the capital, it was really traumatic, still getting therapy for it today.
Re: The Trump historical marker, it was removed from the site because, apparently, there was information learned that people were going to remove it in anger. It was taken down preemptively. I know this from a first-hand source. It has not been destroyed; it is in a person’s possession for safekeeping.
It’s great to see so many commenters defending the Trump family & piercing the myth of 1/6. Apparently, there are many FNY commenters who watch Greg Kelly Reports on News Max. FNY has attracted a high caliber audience that can see through the bias of “driveby media”. Kudos to one & all.
Fred Trump was a racist and probably a member of the KKK. He discriminated against black folks in his rental properties and was taken to court and lost. He also was asked to build affordable housing by the city but over-charge for materials and labor. This resulted in him losing contracts & being black balled. He had to turn over his real estate business to his even more crooked son who cheated, defaulted and lied and stiffed his vendors. And he is unable to get bank loans. both are cartoon Bond villains.
“Thomas Paine”: You shouldn’t take the name of a hero of the American Revolution in vain (your TDS betrays you).
I view “Trump Derangement Syndrome as a badge of honor. And what could you possibly know about Thomas Paine? Americas greatest patriot who would have hated our worst president .