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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Photo: Al Ponte’s time Machine, Facebook
10/23/22