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NY: PGA Pulls 2022 Championship from Trump NJ Course
NEW YORK (77WABC) — New York City is proposing a new firm to run the Ferry Point links after Mayor Bill de Blasio booted former President Donald Trump from operating the golf course.
A notice that was published in Monday’s City Record shows a company called Ferry Point Links LLC will be awarded a 13-year Parks Department deal to take over the Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole course near the Bronx-Whitestone bridge.
According to The City, state records show that the firm shares the name and address with one of the city’s biggest homeless shelter operators, CORE Community Services. A spokesperson for the Parks Department said that CORE will be teaming up with Bobby Jones Links, an Atlanta company that will help operate the location.
Monday’s notice says that Ferry Point Links, LLC will pay a minimum of $300,000 a year to the city — or a share starting at 7% of the gross proceeds and gradually escalating to 10% by year 13, whichever is higher.
An attorney for the former president vowed to fight the city — and the proposed new golf course operators — for control of the links, charging Trump is a victim of “political retaliation.” The city threw out all of its deals with Trump after de Blasio blamed the former President for stirring up the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.
