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Fred C. Trump with his son Donald visiting a tenant in one of their apartment buildings in Brooklyn in January 1973.  She seemed like the model tenant. A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. She filled out what the rental agent remembers as a “beau…