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Steeplechase Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1897 to 1964.Steeplechase Park was created by the entrepreneur George C. Tilyou as the first of the three large amusement parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904).
Illustration of Steeplechase Park, with the Pavilion of Fun's "Funny Face" mascot in the middle of its facade. On July 1, 1965, Trump purchased Coney Island's recently closed Steeplechase Park for $2.3 million, intending to build luxury apartments.
The apartment complex was built in 1963–1964 and developed by Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump. [1] [3] The complex, built on the site of the former Culver Depot, [4] was designed by architect Morris Lapidus. [2] The construction cost US$70 million. [5]
Mr Trump's mother became a US citizen in 1942 and died in 2000, aged 88. But she returned to Lewis throughout her life and always spoke Gaelic, Mr MacIver says.
President-elect Donald John Trump dedicated his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal," to his parents, Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. “The most important influence on me, growing up, was my ...
On September 20, 1964, Steeplechase Park closed for the last time, [100] [101] and the next year, the property was sold to developer Fred Trump. [102] On the site of Steeplechase Park, Trump proposed building a 160-foot-high (49 m) enclosed dome with recreational facilities and a convention center.
Before Fred Trump died at the age of 93 in 1999, Trump had reportedly sought to rewrite his father's will to strengthen his position as the sole executor of his father's estate.. Citing ...
The face's most prominent appearance in Coney Island was in glass on the exterior of Steeplechase's Pavilion of Fun, [9] created when the park was rebuilt in 1909. [10] The pavilion was destroyed by Fred Trump in 1966 [11] [9] in an unsuccessful attempt to create condos on the site. [12]