Trần Đình Trường (1932 – May 6, 2012) a Vietnamese-American was born in South Vietnam

He began his hotel business in New York City, first with the Hotel Opera on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and then Hotel Carter (with low prices, which was deemed the dirtiest hotel in the US in 2009) in Midtown Manhattan and Hotel Lafayette in Buffalo, New York. Along the way Mr Truong owned and operated other New York hotels as well, including the infamous Hotel, Kenmore Hall on 23rd Street, which was seized from Truong by the US Marshals Service in 1994 because of deplorable conditions and rampant crime within the building.

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, he contributed $2 million of his personal funds to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and in 2003, the Asian American Federation honored his actions. In 1984 during the famine in Ethiopia, he also purchased two helicopters valued at around 3.2 million dollars for the hunger relief organization in Ethiopia. In August 2005, he donated $100,000 to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In May 2004, Truong was awarded a Golden Torch Award, by the Vietnamese American National Gala in Washington, D.C. Mr. Tran was also on the Board of Directors of The United Way of New York City.

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