Donald J. Trump State Park is a 436acre undeveloped state park located within the towns of Yorktown and Putnam Valley in Westchester County and Putnam County, New York.The park consists of property donated to New York State in 2006 by Donald Trump. Maintenance of the park was halted in 2010 due to budget constraints, and the park remains largely undeveloped as of 2015.HistoryDonald Trump, for whom the park was named, purchased the property for $2 million in the 1990s, and donated it in 2006. Trump donated the land after he was unable to gain town approvals to develop a private golf course on the property. At the time of its donation, Trump claimed the parcel was worth $100 million, and he used the donation as a tax write-off.New York State announced the park's closure due to budget cuts in February 2010. It was questioned whether the closure was necessary since the operating budget for the park was only $2,500 a year and it was maintained by workers from the nearby Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. Although Trump threatened to take the parkland back after the closure was announced, his attempt was unsuccessful and the land remained in the control of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
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