Fri, Nov 01
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Steven Robinson, Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump's "Masterpiece”
In the late 1980s, a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his “masterpiece,” a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 01, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Steven Robinson will be in conversation with renowned local writer and conservationist William deBuys.
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Order Turf War (paperback, $24.99) online here, or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
Founding President of Santa Fe Railyard Community Corp., award-winning architect, land-use planner, community activist, and writer in New York and New Mexico since 1985, Steven Robinson was inside the turf war that took place in the late 1980s when a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his “masterpiece,” a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side.
After five years of community organizing and strategic opposition, they defeated his proposal. The victorious civic groups had a radically different vision for the site – one that…