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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnion AV: Donald J. Trump State Park Is As Ugly As Its' Namesake
Donald Trump isnt just a disaster as a presidenthes also a disaster as a state park.
Donald J. Trump State Park sits in Westchester County, New York, and encompasses 436 acres of land originally purchased by Trump in the 90s. He intended to develop it into a golf course, but couldnt get permits from the towns in which the property sits, and thus turned around to donate the land to the state of New York in 2006, subsequently claiming a $100 million tax write-off. The park closed due to budget cuts in 2010, though it only had a $2,500 annual budget prior to that, and now sits mostly abandoned and entirely uncared for. In 2010, there was an attempt to convert at least part of the property into a dog park, but the New York State Office Of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation ran into trouble when it both had issues raising funds and discovered asbestos in at least one building on the property.
All of that decrepit shabbiness is on full display in a new series of Instagram photos from former A.V. Club Philadelphia City Editor Emily Guendelsberger, a journalist who recently snuck into a GOP retreat by posing as a congressmans wife. Guendelsberger took a trip up to Trump State Park over the weekend and subsequently declared it an abandoned wasteland, posting photos of muddy fields, overgrown tennis courts, and dilapidated buildings. She also captured a picture of one of the grossest looking swimming pools known to man, and it, along with a number of Guendelsbergers other photos, is posted below. More than anything, the pictures seem to shine a light on the fact that not everything Trump touches turns to gold.
http://www.avclub.com/article/donald-j-trump-state-park-ugly-and-dilapidated-its-251208
Donald J. Trump State Park sits in Westchester County, New York, and encompasses 436 acres of land originally purchased by Trump in the 90s. He intended to develop it into a golf course, but couldnt get permits from the towns in which the property sits, and thus turned around to donate the land to the state of New York in 2006, subsequently claiming a $100 million tax write-off. The park closed due to budget cuts in 2010, though it only had a $2,500 annual budget prior to that, and now sits mostly abandoned and entirely uncared for. In 2010, there was an attempt to convert at least part of the property into a dog park, but the New York State Office Of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation ran into trouble when it both had issues raising funds and discovered asbestos in at least one building on the property.
All of that decrepit shabbiness is on full display in a new series of Instagram photos from former A.V. Club Philadelphia City Editor Emily Guendelsberger, a journalist who recently snuck into a GOP retreat by posing as a congressmans wife. Guendelsberger took a trip up to Trump State Park over the weekend and subsequently declared it an abandoned wasteland, posting photos of muddy fields, overgrown tennis courts, and dilapidated buildings. She also captured a picture of one of the grossest looking swimming pools known to man, and it, along with a number of Guendelsbergers other photos, is posted below. More than anything, the pictures seem to shine a light on the fact that not everything Trump touches turns to gold.
http://www.avclub.com/article/donald-j-trump-state-park-ugly-and-dilapidated-its-251208
I can't post pictures but this is definitely very interesting!
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Onion AV: Donald J. Trump State Park Is As Ugly As Its' Namesake (Original Post)
Initech
Mar 2017
OP
Gives ya so much optimism about America's National Park system over the next 4 yrs... n/t
TygrBright
Mar 2017
#5
madaboutharry
(40,150 posts)1. I'm glad they didn't succeed in changing the name.
Especially after Pete Seeger. Pete Seeger deserves a beautiful park.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)2. Perfect metaphor
for the Maggot.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)3. A lot of his projects fail. And the USA is his current project...
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Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)4. Now we know where he got his plans for making America great again.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)5. Gives ya so much optimism about America's National Park system over the next 4 yrs... n/t