Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens, New York City is up for auction – so what’s the neighbourhood like?
The five-bedroom Tudor-style house where Trump lived until he was 4 years old was put up for auction after it failed to sell for its US$2.9 million asking price
Jamaica Estates, where he lived until the age of 13, is an affluent community, filled with stately homes and wide, tree-lined streets.
“Different parts of Queens were rough; this was an oasis,” Trump told The New York Times in 2015. He said Jamaica Estates “was safe — it was very family oriented”.
The five-bedroom Tudor-style house where Trump lived until he was 4 years old was just put up for auction after it failed to sell for its US$2.9 million asking price earlier this year.
I walked around the neighbourhood and visited the two houses where the Trump family lived. Here’s what it was like.
President Donald Trump spent his childhood until the age of 13 in Jamaica Estates, a wealthy community in Queens on the outskirts of New York City, at least a 45 minute drive from Midtown Manhattan.
The neighbourhood was partially built by the president’s father, Fred Trump.
I decided to visit the neighbourhood to see what it was like. The train ride from my office in lower Manhattan took an hour and 10 minutes. I got off at the Hillside Av/179 Street stop in Jamaica, Queens, at the end of the F train line.
Hillside Avenue is one of the main shopping corridors of Jamaica and marks the southern border of Jamaica Estates.
