DON’T DUMP TRUMP!
A group of Westchester County residents is in a frantic fight to keep Donald Trump’s name emblazoned on their luxury high-rise, The Post has learned.
About two dozen tenants at the 40-story, 194-unit Trump Plaza in New Rochelle want the former president’s name to stay on the building even after his management company got the boot — but say anti-Trump members of the condo board are trying to fix the system in their favor.
“They promised us that they would be an apolitical board, but they’re not. This is all political,” said Monserrate Fisher, 79, who has owned a unit in the building since 2010.
The move to strip “Trump” from the tower — one of only two major residential properties in the county still carrying his name — failed to garner enough support at a 2022 condo board vote, the residents said.
That should have settled the dispute, but instead, some residents have apparently launched a campaign to get their way.
“They didn’t get the votes. This needs to stop,” said Al LePore, 65, who owns a unit with his wife Gina. “They won’t stop until they get their way.
“The board is hardcore,” LePore added. “They won’t talk to us because we are Trump supporters. You have to keep your political views to yourself in something like this.
“They hate the man, and they’re on a mission to destroy him in New York.”
‘They can’t convince me’
The glitzy tower was built in 2007 as part of the suburban city’s downtown revitalization effort, serving as a crown jewel in the middle of a once-underwhelming city.
The condo board voted in 2021 to officially get rid of the Trump Organization and turned over management to real estate giant AKAM — although the Trump name remained attached to the façade.
“While there is a small and very vocal group of owners who do not support the name change, there is a silent majority who we believe support the name change,” board president Greg Root told The Post in an email this week.
“After carefully studying the issue, we believe it is financially in the best interest of unit owners’ property long-term values,” he said.
Root conceded that the move to remove the name failed to pass during the 2022 vote — but only because not enough members showed up to vote.
“While it is correct that a vote on a name change was held in 2022, note that of those who voted 70% were in favor of a name change and 30% opposed,” he wrote.
It wasn’t enough for the supermajority tally that is necessary to make the change, Root said.
The tenants who are fighting to keep the name on the front of the building maintain the vote should have been the end of the story.
“I definitely do not want the name changed,” said Gina LePore, 68. “I don’t see a reason why. They can’t convince me why. We don’t all necessarily love Trump — some of us do, I’m a Trump supporter — but I don’t allow that to cloud my vision.”