Background
Fred Trump was born in 1905, in Bronx, New York, United States.
Fred Trump was born in 1905, in Bronx, New York, United States.
Fred Trump was born on October 11. 1905 in Bronx. His parents were German. All three children were raised speaking German. In September 1908, the family moved to Woodhaven, Queens. At the age of 10, Fred worked as a delivery boy for a butcher. About two years later, his father died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
During World War II, Trump built barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast. After the war, he expanded into middle-income housing for the families of returning veterans. From 1947 to 1949, Trump built Shore Haven in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, which included 32 six-story buildings and a shopping center, covering some 30 acres, and procuring him $9 million in FHA funding. In 1950, he built the 23-building Beach Haven Apartments over 40 acres near Coney Island, procuring him $16 million in FHA funds. The total number of apartments included in these projects exceeded 2,700. In 1963–64, he built Trump Village, an apartment complex in Coney Island, for $70 million—one of his biggest and last major projects. He built more than 27,000 low-income apartments and row houses in the New York area altogether.