The construction of 175 Park Avenue will mark the fall of an early Donald Trump–developed property.

Towering Infernal

Does New York need another gigantic office tower? RXR Realty, which plans to build the tallest building in Midtown East, on the site of Trump’s first Manhattan property, seems to think so

By William D. Cohan

Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

Donald Trump and New York City have been falling out of love with each other for quite some time now. The former president long ago decamped for Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, leaving his 11,000-square-foot triplex, in Trump Tower, to collect dust. (It’s not 30,000 square feet, as its owner has so often claimed.)

And when Trump rolls back into town these days—as he did in April for a deposition in the civil lawsuit that Letitia James, the New York State attorney general, has brought against him—the protesters arrive early and often in front of Trump Tower and along the route of his motorcade downtown to the courthouse. “New York hates you,” they chant, among other things.