Bonwit Teller building to make way for his garish Trump Tower.
https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/the-travesty-of-trump-tower-and-bonwit-teller/
"...Long before I hated Donald Trump, I despised Trump Tower that tacky glass monstrosity on Fifth Avenue that replaced the elegant and stylish department store Bonwit Teller. If Bonwit’s signified impeccable style and taste, Trump Tower was everything garish and tacky.
Like the real estate developer himself.
The venerable Bonwit Teller closed its store at Fifth and 56th in 1979. That was good news for an ambitious 33-year-old Donald Trump, who acquired the old Bonwit’s building and began demolition in 1980, razing the 1929 art deco limestone structure to construct his namesake tower.
At the very top of the façade were limestone relief panels that were not only Bonwit Teller’s signature but works of art.
....
When I looked outside, I realized that a cluster of workmen were on a scaffold in the process of destroying the Art Deco limestone bas relief with masonry saws and jackhammers.
This piece of art and history being drilled to bits was destroyed right in front of my eyes.
Suddenly all the gallery goers in the room noticed too, going over to the large windows in disbelief, as we watched the demolition in absolute helpless horror. The sculptures fell to the ground to crack into smithereens.
Then someone in the room muttered loud enough for all to hear: “That fucking bastard.”
No one had to ask who he was referring to.
It was Donald Trump."....(more)
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