BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A highly-anticipated book
by President Donald Trump’s
niece Mary Trump is promising
an up-close insight into
the Commander-in-Chief’s
family history — but not without
an honorable mention of
Brooklyn Paper!
In her author’s note for Too
Much and Never Enough: How
My Family Created the World’s
Most Dangerous Man, Mary
Trump writes that she consulted
these pages — among
others — while researching
the iconic former Coney Island
amusement park Steeplechase
Park, which Donald’s
father Fred bulldozed in
the 1960s.
“For background on Steeplechase
Park, I thank the
Coney Island History Project
website, Brooklyn Paper,
and a May 14, 2018, article on
6sqft.com by Dana Schulz,”
she writes in her soon-to-bereleased
work.
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While it’s not clear which
articles Mary Trump refers
to specifi cally, Brooklyn’s
real newspaper has written
about the Fred Trump-Steeplechase
Park saga at least
twice, specifi cally in regards
to local exhibits by the Coney
Island History Project, once
by the paper’s former scribe
Will Bredderman in 2014, and
again in 2016 by reporter Dennis
Lynch.
Lynch said he was proud
that his work for the Paper
might have made it into Mary
Trump’s book.
“It’s great to hear she relied
on Brooklyn Paper reporting
and I’m proud that it will help
explain to a wider audience
the impact Fred Trump had
on Coney Island,” said Lynch.
“Local news outlets are so important
for the communities
they cover and I’m very grateful
for my time at the Brooklyn
Paper. I can’t tell you how
much I learned hitting the
streets and in the newsroom
from my colleagues and editors
there.”
Fred Trump famously
bought the Victorian amusement
park after it closed in
1964, hoping to turn it into waterfront
condos.
To stop the city from landmarking
the old building,
the real estate magnate invited
a bunch of his rich pals
to a party where they hurled
bricks through the towering
glass facade, knocking holes
in the People’s Playground’s
famous Funny Face painted
on the windows, which Coney
historian Charles Denson
once told this paper was a
“desecration of an icon.”
Mary Trump, 55, is a
trained clinical psychologist
and the daughter of Donald’s
brother Fred Jr., an alcoholic
who died when she was a teen.
Publisher Simon and
Schuster wrote in a preview
that Trump uses her intimate
insight into the family and her
clinical background to shine
“a bright light on the dark history
of their family in order to
explain how her uncle became
the man who now threatens
the world’s health, economic
security, and social fabric.”
The book has already
caused a stir in Washington,
with the president’s brother
Robert Trump trying to stop
publication by suing the author
and the publisher, arguing
the book violates a 20-yearold
nondisclosure agreement,
reported Long Island Press.
Still, an upstate judge allowed
the book to be distributed
as planned and the publisher
moved up the release
date from July 28 to July 14
amid the heightened demand.
A spokesman for Mary
Trump did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
Additional reporting by
Timothy Bolger
REAL NEWS!
Brooklyn Paper gets shoutout
in new Mary Trump book
President Donald Trump speaks at his fi rst re-election campaign rally in
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