The Trump Place apartment complex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is about to drop the president-elect’s name after an outcry by residents. Almost 600 people had signed an online petition urging the landlord to “Dump the Trump Name.” Equity Residential spokesman Marty McKenna said Tuesday that the company had a contractual obligation regarding the use of the name, and that the period of the contract has ended. “The goal is to assume a more neutral building identity that will appeal to all current and future renters.” 
 
 An employee at the leasing office at 140 Trump Place said the work would begin on Wednesday – just eight days after Trump won the presidential election. She said she was “thrilled” at the news. “I’m looking forward to people not bringing politics into it any more when they come visit or see where I live.” 
 
 Erin Kelly, who has lived in Trump Place for eight years, was among those who campaigned for the name to be removed. The Trump Place name is emblazoned on the apartment buildings in gold letters, which are set to be removed this week. While some are managed by the Trump Organization, the three apartment buildings at 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Boulevard are now controlled by Equity Residential. I tell them 180 Riverside Blvd.” 
 
 Amanda Miller, a Trump Organization vice president, said in an e-mail that the name change was mutually agreed upon and “simply the enforcement of a pre-existing agreement which has been in place for years.” 
 
 In New York County, which is the island of Manhattan, 87 percent of votes cast in the presidential election were for Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to data compiled by Politico.
– Three luxury apartment buildings in New York City are having their names changed because residents don't want to be associated with the next president of the United States. The gold letters spelling out "Trump Place" at 140, 160, and 180 Riverside Blvd. in Manhattan will be taken down Wednesday and the buildings will be renamed after their street addresses, Bloomberg reports. The buildings were developed by Donald Trump in the 1990s but are now owned by Equity Residential, which says it never paid Trump for the use of his name and will now "assume a more neutral building identity that will appeal to all current and future renters." The company decided to change the name after more than 600 people signed a "Dump the Trump name" petition, which cited his "appalling treatment of women, his history of racism, his attacks on immigrants, his mockery of the disabled, his tax avoidance, his outright lying." Resident Juliet Herman tells the Guardian that people have thrown eggs at her building in recent weeks and she is "thrilled" about the name change. "I'm looking forward to people not bringing politics into it anymore when they come visit or see where I live," she says. (A company making Trump masks has been flooded with orders.)