Condo board heads to court to get Trump name removed from building
By David A. Fahrenthold May 3 at 6:00 AM
NEW YORK — The condo board at a Manhattan high-rise called “Trump Place” will be in court on Thursday morning, asking a judge’s permission to take that name off the building’s facade.
The high-rise, at 200 Riverside Boulevard in the Upper West Side, is one of a string of six buildings that Donald Trump helped develop in the 1990s. All were christened “Trump Place,” though Trump doesn’t own any of them.
Since the 2016 election, three of the buildings removed the Trump name.
Last year, the board at 200 Riverside began to consider taking down its own signs — after some residents complained that the Trump name might reduce their property values in liberal New York. But one of the Trump Organization’s lawyers threatened them with legal action — saying that the terms of an 18-year-old licensing agreement require the building to display the Trump name.
In response, the condo board sued the Trump Organization. The board wants New York Justice Eileen Bransten to determine: Does that licensing agreement require it to put up signs with Trump’s name? Or does it merely allow it to have the signs, if the members want?
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