Vera Coking, who bought a home in the city in 1961 for $20,000, reportedly turned down millions from Donald Trump, who wanted her house for a limousine staging area for the now-closed Trump Plaza casino-hotel. In one interview, Coking, a widow, called Trump "a maggot, a cockroach, and a crumb." She then successfully resisted state efforts on behalf of Trump to take the property by eminent domain.