The event was attended by real estate and gambling executives, as well as Jennifer Cunningham, a communications strategist who consults for Genting.
The project, dubbed Villa Trump, will be financed separately from the real estate and gambling empire Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, which is under severe financial strain.
Getting a grip on Mr. Trump's financial situation has never been easy -- just ask the banks that lent him millions in the 1980's, shortly before his real estate and gambling empire collapsed.
The commission will walk fearlessly.* (*Except it might overlook the governor's Committee to Save New York, the fund-raising vehicle by which the state's larger corporate, real estate and gambling barons raised $17 million to express their adoration and support for Mr. Cuomo's efforts to cut taxes and promote casino gambling.
Large campaign contributions are particularly sensitive for Mr. Cuomo following recent revelations that the real estate and gambling industries financed an advocacy group, the Committee to Save New York, that was set up at his urging and has played a major role in promoting his administration.
They have been through much a youthful love affair stifled, a life threatened by bankruptcy, an estate lost through gambling.
He grasps the larger, self-destructive misanthropy in Saroyan's life, as well as much of the minutiae (at the level of family quarrels, real estate transactions and gambling debts).
When the developers set out to build 15 Central Park West, which has become something of a personality in its own right in a city obsessed with real estate, they were gambling that the rich and famous would embrace an aesthetic that evoked New York of the 1920s and 1930s.
Donald Trump a businessman who operates in fields like real estate and casino gambling, where maintaining close ties to state and local officials is supremely important, and who may not be quite as big a tycoon as he'd like us to think is an economic republican (though he'd never think of himself that way).
