--- description: Letters spelling Donald Trump's name have been removed from three New York City apartment buildings title: Watch Donald Trump's Name Get Removed From an NYC Apartment Building image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f463b3d35917c9a/6988aece428a9e1155cd5099/donald-trump-building.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Donald Trump's Name Get Removed From a New York City Apartment Building by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 16, 2016 10:10 PM CUT  TIME Video by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 16, 2016 10:10 PM CUT Letters spelling [Donald Trump’s name](http://time.com/4573211/donald-trump-november-ninth/ "undefined") have been removed from [three New York City apartment buildings](http://time.com/4571942/trump-place-new-york-city-donald-trump/ "undefined"), following [Trump’s election win](http://time.com/4571422/president-obama-greece-donald-trump/ "undefined"). Crews removed gold letters spelling “Trump Place” from a residential building in Manhattan on Wednesday after hundreds signed a petition demanding the building drop the president-elect’s last name. “It will be like a breath of fresh air, walking down Riverside Boulevard not being embarrassed by the ‘Trump Dump’ name,” Marjorie Jacobs, a resident of one of the buildings said. “We knew that we did not feel safe with his name on the building.” **_Gifts:_** [**_The 100 Most Influential Images of All Time_**](http://shop.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/link/1039114.html?xid=cm-TIMEShopscTIMEArticle "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4574004/donald-trump-name-remove-new-york/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4574004/donald-trump-name-remove-new-york/"},"headline":"Watch Donald Trump's Name Get Removed From a New York City Apartment Building","datePublished":"2016-11-16T22:10:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:51:55.194Z","description":"The gold letters are gone","url":"https://time.com/4574004/donald-trump-name-remove-new-york/","keywords":["New York"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f463b3d35917c9a/6988aece428a9e1155cd5099/donald-trump-building.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f463b3d35917c9a/6988aece428a9e1155cd5099/donald-trump-building.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-building","caption":"","creditText":"TIME Video","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4574004/donald-trump-name-remove-new-york/","name":"Watch Donald Trump's Name Get Removed From a New York City Apartment Building"}}]}] ```