Trump’s name mysteriously removed from New York’s Central Park ice rinks
- The Trump Organisation, which still runs the rinks, has not responded to questions on the removal
Ice skaters on the two rinks in New York’s Central Park have long glided, or stumbled, past large red signs spelling “Trump”. Not this season, officials confirmed Wednesday.
The Wollman Rink, the most famous of the two, has just opened for the winter, but without the president’s name plastered over it for the first time in decades.
“Unsolicited, the Trump Organisation notified us in late August that they planned to change the on-rink branding,” a spokeswoman for the city’s parks department said in a statement.
Trump was a New York businessman on the rise when his company took over the management of the rinks from the city in the 1980s.
Wollman, built in 1950, is in the south of the park while Lasker Rink, built in 1966, is situated at the northern end.
Wollman had been closed for years before Trump finished a long-delayed redevelopment project and reopened it to the public.
