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City Of New York Probing Illegal Closures Of Public Trump Tower Atrium For Campaign Events
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Annonomeister
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Date: June 01, 2016 01:26PM
NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters) - "New York City is investigating Donald Trump’s practice of closing down the public atrium in Trump Tower for presidential campaign events that are off limits to the public.
In order to add more floors than zoning rules would otherwise allow, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, agreed to create a two-story public atrium on the ground and lower floors of the building, which opened in 1983 on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
But security staff wearing Trump badges spent several hours shooing away a growing crowd of New Yorkers and tourists from the doors on Tuesday morning after Trump decided to hold a news conference in the atrium to discuss his fundraising for veterans groups.
“Department of Buildings inspectors will be investigating the allegations that the (public atrium) was closed contrary to the building owner’s agreement with the city,” Joe Soldevere, a department spokesman, told Reuters on Tuesday.
There are scores of “privately owned public spaces,” or POPS, throughout New York City, intended as a trade-off between developers who want to build taller and preserving space for the public in the city’s densest neighborhoods.
In the case of Trump Tower, the 6,000-square-foot public atrium, which is lined with pink marble, must be open to the public between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day, a fact advertised in large gold letters over the building’s Fifth Avenue entrance.
As with other such spaces, it can be closed up to four times a year for a private event after permission from city officials.
Trump has held several events in the public areas of Trump Tower since launching his campaign in the atrium there last June."
In order to add more floors than zoning rules would otherwise allow, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, agreed to create a two-story public atrium on the ground and lower floors of the building, which opened in 1983 on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
But security staff wearing Trump badges spent several hours shooing away a growing crowd of New Yorkers and tourists from the doors on Tuesday morning after Trump decided to hold a news conference in the atrium to discuss his fundraising for veterans groups.
“Department of Buildings inspectors will be investigating the allegations that the (public atrium) was closed contrary to the building owner’s agreement with the city,” Joe Soldevere, a department spokesman, told Reuters on Tuesday.
There are scores of “privately owned public spaces,” or POPS, throughout New York City, intended as a trade-off between developers who want to build taller and preserving space for the public in the city’s densest neighborhoods.
In the case of Trump Tower, the 6,000-square-foot public atrium, which is lined with pink marble, must be open to the public between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day, a fact advertised in large gold letters over the building’s Fifth Avenue entrance.
As with other such spaces, it can be closed up to four times a year for a private event after permission from city officials.
Trump has held several events in the public areas of Trump Tower since launching his campaign in the atrium there last June."
Re: City Of New York Probing Illegal Closures Of Public Trump Tower Atrium For Campaign Events
Posted by:
desperate times
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Date: June 01, 2016 01:29PM
Jesus, if this is a story how desperate are Dems?
Re: City Of New York Probing Illegal Closures Of Public Trump Tower Atrium For Campaign Events
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Trump's Unbounded Arrogance
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Date: June 01, 2016 01:51PM
On display for all to see.
Re: City Of New York Probing Illegal Closures Of Public Trump Tower Atrium For Campaign Events
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Get Used To It
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Date: June 01, 2016 02:03PM
desperate times Wrote:
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> Jesus, if this is a story how desperate are Dems?
Not desperate at all. We've got plenty of material. This investigation was initiated by New York City - not the Democratic Party (and no, they're not the same thing). You can't shut down a 6,000 foot atrium in the most prominent building in Manhatten without people noticing. Trump should have known that.
Trump better grow a thicker skin. There are undoubtedly dozens of stories like this coming his way. You can't piss off every body in the known universe and not expect some blowback.
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> Jesus, if this is a story how desperate are Dems?
Not desperate at all. We've got plenty of material. This investigation was initiated by New York City - not the Democratic Party (and no, they're not the same thing). You can't shut down a 6,000 foot atrium in the most prominent building in Manhatten without people noticing. Trump should have known that.
Trump better grow a thicker skin. There are undoubtedly dozens of stories like this coming his way. You can't piss off every body in the known universe and not expect some blowback.