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YORKTOWN, N.Y. Donald Trump made only one demand in 2006 when he donated 436 acres of undeveloped land for a new state park in New York: It had to bear his name.
In typical Trump fashion, the future president expressed his hope that it would become "one of the most beautiful parks anywhere in the world."
But today it's a far cry from that.
The road to Donald J. Trump State Park in the Hudson Valley is filled with potholes, and it's difficult to find, situated at the end of an unmarked dead-end street. The park itself has no restrooms or garbage cans, no rangers or employees, no picnic tables, not even an entry booth. It does have plenty of weeds, dandelions, brush and trash.
"It's not a coincidence that it's hard to find, because I think the state is embarrassed," said state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, admittedly no Trump fan. "It's a shambles, not too different from what we see in the day-to-day operations of the presidency."
Hoylman is leading a controversial effort to change the park's name. He argues that the state Legislature can override Trump's agreement with the parks department because local residents and lawmakers were never consulted. He introduced a bill in January that would remove the president's name from the park.
Suggested new names are pointedly contrary to the Trumpian spirit. Hundreds of New Yorkers signed a petition urging the state to rename the park after another native son, the late Pete Seeger, a folk singer and social activist. Another petition called for renaming it after Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was struck by a car and killed in Charlottesville, Va., while protesting a 2017 white nationalist rally.
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)Sen. John Sidney McCain III State Park.
If herohater-#45 doesn't like that, give the park back to him and require him to maintain it.
DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)It should bear Trump's name and be left just the way it is.