They Love NY: Sanders’, Trump’s and Clinton’s New York ties
Three presidential candidates call themselves New Yorkers. Bernie Sanders is from Brooklyn, Donald Trump is from Queens and Hillary Clinton owns a home in Chappaqua (Westchester county) and represented New York in the U.S. Senate. Despite these bonafides, the three contenders have been falling all over themselves to prove how much they love New York as the state’s April 19 presidential primary nears. Sanders ate a hot dog on Coney Island, Trump visited the 9/11 museum and donated $100,000 to it and Clinton rode the subway — though she had to swipe her MetroCard five times to get it to work.
Sanders and Clinton are set to debate Thursday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But there’s a lot more to these candidates’ New York stories than campaign stops and photo ops. A look at some places connected to these three very different New Yorkers.