When congregants enter the Beach Haven Jewish Center in Gravesend, Brooklyn, they pass a small plaque hanging just outside the main sanctuary. “Fred Trump. Humanitarian,” declare the gold emb… ...

Guthrie once lived in a Brooklyn apartment owned by Donald Trump's father, ... no. Old man Trump. Old Beach Haven ain’t my home,” wrote Guthrie in an apparent adaption of his song, ...

He'd signed a lease for an apartment in a big housing development in Brooklyn called Beach Haven. The landlord was a New York developer named Trump - not Donald, but his father, Fred.

Trump would be investigated by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 for profiteering off of public contracts, not least by overestimating his Beach Haven building charges to the tune of $3.7 million.

In the 1940s, Fred Trump bought the land where he would build the Beach Haven Apartments, a sprawling complex near Coney Island, in Brooklyn. He gave the land to a trust. The beneficiaries of the ...

In 1950, Woody Guthrie moved into an apartment at Beach Haven, a cluster of buildings in Brooklyn. His landlord was Donald Trump’s father. Photograph by Eric Schaal / The LIFE Picture Collection ...

Woody Guthrie was not a fan of Fred Trump. According to the New York Times, the lefty troubadour rented an apartment in one of Fred Trump’s Brooklyn complexes, Beach Haven, in 1950.Guthrie felt ...

He also pointed to Trump’s performance in several of his family’s former developments: he carried the election districts covering Beach Haven and Trump Village, and took almost 40 percent of ...

Fred Trump, who died in 1999, or one of his executives continued to negotiate prices, but for each purchase, Mr. Walter would generate an invoice showing that All County had bought the items, and ...