[ April 24, 2024 ]
NYC is dying and this is what the Democrats prioritize. The party of misery and punishing hate remove every good, happy things from our lives.
They’ve ruined an entire generation of children and still refuse to open schools. Record suicides, substance abuse, depression is roiling our children’s lives – Democrats consider just consequence for their unprecedented power grab.
BTW, Trump built the Wollman Rink.
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NYC shutting Central Park ice rinks to kids to freeze out Trump Organization
By Lois Weiss, Elizabeth Elizalde and Nolan Hicks, NY Post, February 20, 2021 |
New York City announced it’s closing the Trump run Wollman and Lasker Rink in Central Park for the former president’s actions during last month’s riots at the Capitol.
NYC announced it’s closing the Trump Org-run Wollman and Lasker rinks in Central Park over the former president’s actions during last month’s riots at the Capitol. Robert Sabo for the NY Post
Skaters arriving at Central Park’s two ice rinks are in for a cold awakening next week — the rinks, which are both managed by the Trump Organization, are being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.
The Trump Organization says its last day of operating the iconic Wollman Rink and the smaller Lasker Rink at the park’s northern end will be Sunday.
The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.
The Trump Organization is closing its doors after close of business on Sunday, so it will have time to pack up its belongings — including some 1,700 pairs of ice skates — and move out.
The city is terminating all four of its Trump Organization concession contracts.
“Trump has been impeached from operating the ice rink,” a de Blasio spokesman had said Jan. 31 in announcing the concession terminations for Wollman Rink, along with Lasker Rink, the Central Park Carousel and Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx.
On a typical season, the two Central Park rinks operate through March and into early April. The carousel never opened for the season and remains closed due to the pandemic; the golf course closed for the season in December.
“Despite our appeals to the City to allow us to continue operations through the duration of the skating season — which would not only save the jobs of nearly 250 individuals who work or otherwise provide services Wollman and Lasker Rinks, but also allow us to continue to provide the numerous public skating sessions and skating and hockey programs that we host on a daily basis — the City rejected our efforts,” the Trump Organization told The Post in a statement.
Executive Vice President Eric Trump, the former commander in chief’s son, slammed de Blasio for being “petty” in ending the contracts, and said he was saddened that kids would be kept off the ice.
see alsoTrump gets frozen out of operating Central Park’s Wollman Rink
“The city is saying in effect, ‘We don’t care if it destroys the skating season; we want you out now,’” Trump told The Post. “This is one of the only things that kids can do” for outdoor winter recreation, he noted.
“De Blasio is now shutting down skating season while New York dies. It’s horribly sad,” he said.
“The mayor is absolutely petty. This isn’t about us, this is about the people of the city who come here to skate and disabled kids who joined hockey teams and others who joined skating school and take lessons every week,” Trump added.
The Trump Organization is appealing the contract terminations, including the city’s attempt to kick it out of the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, a contract worth millions and which has 18 more years left to run.
“This is purely a political stunt that only hurts New Yorkers,” Trump said. “Instead of focusing on a dying city which everyone is leaving because of rising crime, high taxes, closed businesses and totally incompetent leadership, the mayor is painting signs in front of Trump Tower and destroying more jobs along with the only outdoor activity available to children during a pandemic. Why? To get back at a person who sits on the other side of the political aisle and now lives in Florida? Let’s cancel kids’ programs six weeks early, that will show Trump.”
Donald Trump rebuilt the then-run-down Wollman Rink at the park’s southern end in the summer of 1986, and it has since been a haven for families looking to skate and play hockey.
The Mayor’s Office could not immediately explain why the rinks were being closed without replacement concessionaires in place when asked late Friday.
The Parks Department confirmed to The Post that it had delivered a termination notice to the Trump Organization on January 15 with an effective date of Feb. 26 for both rinks.
The department is still looking for concessionaires to fill the gap, a spokeswoman said.
Companies have a March 19 deadline to submit their proposals.
“We are working diligently through our competitive RFP process to secure new operators for these great amenities so as not to impact the respective seasons,” Parks spokeswoman Crystal Howard said.
The smaller Lasker Rink had already been set to close for renovations, the department said, as part of a $150 million rebuild also encompassing the Lasker Pool, but ground breaking was not slated to begin there until the spring, according to the Central Park Conservancy website.
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20 Comments
3 years ago
The sooner NYShitty collapses, THE BETTER!
NYC and the liberal DemocRAT lunatics in it are a blight on the local and national landscape and again, the sooner it vanishes into the dust, the better it will be for America.
3 years ago
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Tasmanian Devil
The only problem with DEMS in charge for perpetuity… tax payers will endlessly bail them out. Voter fraud and voting machine fraud will keep them in unless they address it and DEMS don’t want to. They want universal mail in ballots!
3 years ago
Benito De Blasio unavailable for comment…
3 years ago
Trump needs to tell nyc FOAD and then sell all of his assets in ny!!!!!
3 years ago
Isn’t that discrimination? Is discrimination illegal?
3 years ago
So petty and small these people are!
3 years ago
It is quite instructive to watch the collapse of NYC. It is a reminder of the phrase – “those who ignore history are destined to repeat it”.
3 years ago
Boy, I can sure feel for unity these days! I bet this was the way it was before 1861. There was so much unity in America back then and probably even more today. Even during those days the Democrats were good people. It was the party of slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, the KKK, anti-civil rights, etc. I can sure feel beauty growing.
3 years ago
The Democrat Party runs on 100 proof stupid.
3 years ago
One Superintendent of schools put it this way…”Football or Funerals”.
https://standforhealthfreedom.com/CDC-investigation
3 years ago
sour grapes taste bitter. we make things worse to cover it up. what have the dems., done to make life more comfortable for the population???ZZIILLCCHH!!!!!
3 years ago
Let’s see. The Bidens are throwing National Guardsmen to the parking ramps for barracks while demanding they hang around DC indefinitely, de Blasio is alienating the people of New York while he drives everyone out of the city, killing jobs as they go, the idiot city government of Minneapolis seems to have its police force tied to a sort of dunking stool -now we keep them, now we don’t. Biden’s puppeteers cut the Keystone Pipeline in order to destroy hundreds, no thousands of jobs. Media giants are hacking away at their own substance by banning every worthwhile commentator, costing themselves billions of dollars plus their own relevance. The revolution can’t be far off. The Democrats seem to have made enemies of everyone for no good reason.
3 years ago
Seems we are waging war against the future. Schools closed (never happened before), Playgrounds closed, churches closed, McDonald’s closed and now outdoor recreation area closed. Childhood memories gone!
Oh and schools now indoctrinate rather than teach three R’s.
Adults we should be proud if ourselves!!!!
3 years ago
Do it anyway
REBEL
YOU own the government, the government DOES NOT OWN YOU.
Carry a copy of the Constitution with you – when “John Law” comes to arrest you, hand them the pocket Constitution and ask them to show you where they have that “authority”.
Remember, any “legislation abhorrent to the Constitution IS NOT “LAW” AND NEED NOT BE OBEYED – at least according to the supreme court.
And, remind “John Law” that they are SWORN TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION ABOVE ALL ELSE.
If they “fine” you, ask them to show you the “injured party” to whom you are to pay such “restitution”. There MUST be an “injured party” who has “suffered loss”.
3 years ago
Every time you think that they can never get more vile, petty or just pain stupid they find a way to prove you wrong.
3 years ago
After a huge outcry the mayor reversed himself. The most outrageous thing the mayor is doing to the schools is having them indoctrinate children with critical race theory and blm propaganda. That is far worse than remote learning which may actually save lives.
3 years ago
When will the people of NY stand up and be heard?
3 years ago
NY and NYC deserve it all. Total collapse, murder, sodomy. They deserve it. Let them wallow in it. If you meet someone in your state or city and they say they are from NY or NYC. Tell them they need to go back. Leave us alone.
3 years ago
Wo are really the stupid people, here, if we let these people run things?
