He would bring the doormen coffee and a Spanish newspaper.
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The miraculous transformation filled the two dumbfounded doormen with joy.
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But supers and doormen are not oblivious to economic constraints.
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Doormen at these and other properties guard the private entrances.
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It's like there are no other doormen in the building.
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Even mediocre condo developments offered gyms and elevators and doormen.
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In 2010, unionized doormen around New York almost went on strike.
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The doormen gave Ben gifts — shirts or shoes, things he needed.
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Doormen and superintendents who are treated with respect respond with kindness.
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All the boulevard buildings have doormen, water views and extravagant amenities.
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Over time, the two doormen learned some blurred snippets about Ben Wichmann.
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The two doormen put out fliers in the neighborhood to solicit donations.
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Supers generally get the largest share, followed by doormen and then porters.
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But doormen at high-end hotels worry about collisions as lanes expand.
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I know the doormen very well, but I don't know the neighbors.
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And, quite honestly, she didn't want to know anything of life without doormen.
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He came to rely on the doormen to make — or cancel — doctor appointments.
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They were going to work as doormen at a popular nightspot called Baileys.
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The doormen should be the avant-garde of managing this heavily contested turf.
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The Colony and Cosmopolitan both employ men in positions such as doormen and waiters.
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The street was mostly quiet, save a few confused-looking dog walkers and doormen.
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Who is responsible for snow removal and trash pickup if there are no doormen?
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Cabdrivers, shopkeepers, hotel doormen: everyone had an urgent opinion and pressed me for mine.
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Doormen constantly sweep papers and cigarettes and other haphazardly discarded objects out of view.
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Clubs were filled with dealers sanctioned by doormen, and controlled by organized crime gangs.
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The company says it will soon be expanding into buildings without doormen and—gasp—Brooklyn.
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Before, the doormen used to write out serial numbers by hand in a log book.
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"We have 12 buildings, mostly in Brooklyn and none of them have doormen," he said.
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"newsboys, shoe-shine boys, ushers, doormen, concession attendants and theater cashiers" — less than minimum wage.
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And they would fall into meandering exchanges — spoken words from the doormen, scribbling from Ben.
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I think there were about 15 or 20 other doormen, and they weren't too happy.
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The doormen were petitioning management to provide a proper chair for them to sit in.
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Doormen are strict about whom they let in, with apparent biases against conspicuous displays of wealth.
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Typically, they decorate clients' second homes in the Hamptons, and apartments in co-ops with doormen.
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The doormen are "really good at giving directions and recommendations about the area," Ms. Turner said.
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Smartly attired doormen stand in front of the entrance underneath a regal black-and-gold canopy.
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He passed the InterContinental New York Barclay hotel and its doormen opening cab doors for guests.
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The doormen make about $9 an hour, but their earnings can exceed three times that with tips.
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The union sees Airbnb as a threat to hotels and to the housekeepers, concierges and doormen it represents.
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"It's shifting work toward consumers, or, in the case of doormen, toward the people who work for consumers."
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Instead, it meandered through the city, zooming in on the lives of store clerks, doormen, and taxi drivers.
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The people he consulted included waiters, bartenders, barbers, doormen, valets, and more from different neighborhoods and different businesses.
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Who will save Rostov from the intrusions of the state if not the seamstresses, chefs, bartenders and doormen?
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Zadie, in person, has an approachable, immensely welcoming air, to readers, fellow writers, doormen, cabbies, everyone she meets.
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And as long as there are babysitters, bellhops, doormen, street vendors and Christmas stockings, there will be cash.
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He is occasionally berated by doormen or business owners for painting in front of their buildings, he said.
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Now it's all architectural fabulousness — Jerusalem limestone, acres of marble, Gaudí-esque facades guarded by beady-eyed doormen.
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The two doormen offered to get Ben a cellphone, make him the modern man, but he waved that off.
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Some allegedly pulled guns on doormen while others attempted to climb over equipment just to get into the courtyard.
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The two officers who are brothers, Cliff Nieves, 37, and Steven Nieves, 32, were described as doormen for brothels.
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They also like having doormen to greet them and an uncrowded basement gym, which saves on outside gym fees.
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Darker-complexioned Egyptians and sub-Saharan Africans have been portrayed as doormen, waiters, and cleaners in films for decades.
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The police conscript who had stood alongside Farag and the other doormen behind the massive gates was killed by gunfire.
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There were a couple of beige-uniformed doormen hailing cabs and the opening doors of spotless Range Rovers for guests.
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" A reviewer described Mr. Finkel's distinctive visage: "His cheeks are two doormen flanking the long sloping awning of his nose.
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Some have begun locking their doors, after years of keeping them unlocked and relying on doormen to keep them safe.
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Its most recent video includes members of 2000BJ S.E.I.U., a politically powerful union that represents doormen, superintendents and custodial staff.
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Ms. Walton said she began receiving a flurry of emails from her doormen letting her know that brokers were visiting.
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The hotel's minimalist black-and-white entrance is staffed by two doormen and flanked by (fake, I believe) potted plants.
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Strangely, on the night, I received numerous texts from guests saying that doormen told them they weren't on the guest list.
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It is also typical that Gary, in fabricating a scene from the death camps, would have added in doormen and receptionists.
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We have a ton of doormen, firemen, school kids, older women, people that have been coming for generations, generations of families.
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I've written about co-op boards that ban strollers in the lobby or dictate how residents should interact with their doormen.
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Similarly, if you live in a luxury apartment, doormen might expect something on the higher end of the $15 to $150 range.
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Starting with: OK, so getting into a private members' club is basically just finding a way to get past the doormen, right?
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Then, with the wavering support of his wife, Justine, 47, who he said favors apartments with doormen, he would fix it up.
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As a result, he told the doormen to refuse services to her, and this includes refusing to accept packages addressed to her.
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This includes the doormen, who are clad in dark gray, a recent change from black, "They look very well dressed," she said.
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The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed American military service members.
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They exchange daily pleasantries with doormen and bodega owners and grapple with the incomprehensible fact that some people sleep on the sidewalk.
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The amenities of the luxury building include a full-time doormen, concierge services, health club, spa, residents' lounge, screening room, sundeck and garage.
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I acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses, I can be contradicted, but I respect everyone in the company, from the doormen to the shareholders.
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There were tourists taking photos with well-dressed doormen outside Trump Tower's doors standing beneath giant block lettering and a large American flag.
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Every day, the doormen from the large co-op adjacent to our building water down the sidewalk area for at least 20 minutes.
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That means keeping the area free of dirt, debris, snow and ice, which might explain why the doormen are such avid street washers.
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Peter Ward represented the 35,000 bellmen, doormen, banquet waiters and maids who made up the powerful New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council.
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If the sidewalks look spotless, it is not because gum chewers wrap up their leftovers, but because those doormen hose down the pavement.
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Living in In place of the train yards that once covered this Manhattan neighborhood are new "lifestyle buildings" with doormen and water views.
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To doormen and porters falls the responsibility of keeping up with the parade of look-alike Cadillac Escalades and Mercedes S class sedans.
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Summoning my limited acting skills, I tried to give off an air of power and confidence walking past the doormen to the revolving entrance.
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This was a posh part of town, the kind of place where apartment buildings have doormen, and hotels have chandeliers and five-star restaurants.
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Some buildings take things a step further, allowing doormen to actually enter a resident's apartment with packages to avoid a pileup in the lobby.
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Recently, at the co-op board's behest, my overnight guests have been asked by the doormen to sign in, even though I am home.
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At the same buildings, they say, the doormen and concierges have been measured for new uniforms that will no longer carry the Trump name.
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So why would a wealthy woman, who long claimed to be the ex-fiancée of former president Kennedy, leave all her finances to the doormen?
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While executors in both the Bahamas and New York battle over the authenticity of the two wills on file, the doormen are holding out hope.
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On the other hand, change the uniform too little, and you risk continuing to blend in with the doormen, the pilots and other fashion usurpers.
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He recounts how doormen at a disco turned him away because he was wearing jeans—not the sort of reversal a Japanese royal often experiences.
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They are also light on services and amenities like doormen, gyms and elevators — yet another way to keep a lid on shareholders' monthly fiscal obligation.
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Service is fairly hands off — no doormen, no bellhops, no valet — which seemed fitting in a country that was largely settled by self-sufficient Vikings.
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Doormen, elevator operators, manicurists — any employee who relies on small, spontaneous cash tips — are finding themselves left out in the cold by an increasingly cashless world.
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The least expensive was a sixth-floor studio co-op with Empire State Building views and a 24-hour doormen at 159 Madison Avenue, asking $419,000.
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In apartment buildings without doormen, residents — and anyone else passing through — can pick through boxes piled in lobbies or hallways in a kind of honor system.
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Talk to doormen, longtime neighborhood residents, and friends and co-workers who live in rent-stabilized apartments, said Neeta Mulgaokar, an associate broker at Mirador Real Estate.
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I remember our family walking in the front door of our new building in 1992, opened by one of the doormen I would come to know, Vinnie.
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It's hard to deny the appeal of high-end apartment buildings packed with amenities from on-site pools and yoga studios to rooftop decks and friendly doormen.
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The prewar building boasts a drive-through circular driveway, white-glove service, a concierge, private elevator landings, and 24-hour security guards and doormen, according to Forbes.
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But when he got there, instead of relaxing and sightseeing, he slipped past doormen in upscale buildings and went on burglary sprees in vacant apartments, prosecutors said.
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For an hour, Leslie and I engaged in intense negotiations with the landlady, her daughter, and two doormen; finally, the six of us gathered outside the recluse's apartment.
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"Although high-rises and doormen are awesome, we wanted the full New York City experience, and decided a walk-up was best for our first apartment," she said.
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The property manager solicited their advice about gym equipment (their wish for a Peloton bike is being granted.) And they were the first people to meet the doormen.
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The other side: City-dwellers who live in converted townhouses or buildings without doormen order just as many packages — but they don't have someone to run the lobby-warehouse.
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Tommasiello had to get creative, which included his greatest find: befriending the managers and doormen by chatting with them to make their shift less boring or sharing a cigarette.
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He has also found issues such as doormen who shooed people away and public spaces that are sealed off behind fences and gates, some of which are kept locked.
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It was all a bit Clockwork Orange and licensed nightclub doormen, like Woody and Toddy, were on the front line of this mindless yet peculiarly English form of violence.
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Most immediately, the victims were people cut off from transportation: nurses' aides, fabric cutters, doormen, shipping clerks, young students going off to school, sick people headed to their doctors.
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The neighborhood was officially named in 2017, and includes several of San Francisco's most luxurious glass condominium towers, many offering 24-hour doormen, swimming pools, elaborate gyms and concierges.
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Mr. Reefer's two dads live in a Yorkville co-op, "with porters, doormen, gardeners and paint guys, and there is so much tipping and all those rules," he said.
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A report published by the Home Office in 1998, Clubs, Drugs, and Doormen, revealed the extent to which gangsters had infiltrated the nightclub drug trade in Merseyside and Northumbria.
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But since then his access to the foyer has been hit or miss: Although doormen let Mr. Singh inside during this winter's worst nights, he was ousted again in February.
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But, especially at night, I long for the peace of my first neighborhood — the dogs on their bedtime walks, the doormen tipping their hats, the reading man on 74th Street.
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On the other hand, officials at Local 393BJ of the Service Employees International Union, to which most doormen and elevator operators belong, said they knew of only one or two.
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Instead, you could end up in a confrontation with one or more of the doormen and the smoking would continue anyway, because you do not have the authority to stop it.
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As a constructor, I really enjoyed putting this grid together, what with entries like O.R. NURSE (nurse specializing in operating room work), DOORMEN, HOT DATE, FORGERS, IM COOL, GAL PAL, etc.
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Tenants got a hint that change was afoot in late October when doormen told residents that they were being measured for new uniforms that would no longer bear the Trump name.
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Many doormen at hotels and apartment buildings say bike lanes have put them in harm's way, forcing them to do what Mr. Seda did to prevent collisions with guests or tenants.
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On the Upper East Side, at 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue, the 855-unit Wellesley apartment building had to hire two doormen specifically to direct a never-ending stream of delivery guys.
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According to the Voice, when there were vacancies in a Trump housing block, rental applications were secretly marked with the applicant's race, and doormen were coached to discourage black people from renting.
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Friends reported that the easy-to-use LVCC Uber pickup and drop-off lot now had its own huge queue and then I heard some hotel doormen grousing about 6x price surges.
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" Electric bikes, a particular source of frustration for doormen, are technically illegal in New York, and Mr. Orcutt of Bike New York said the city had confiscated e-bikes "in random bursts.
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It's that nowhere part of the city just north of Times Square, where the buildings are monuments to old money, the sidewalks are wide and patrolled by doormen, and the delis are overpriced.
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During the court proceeding, the prosecutors described how Mr. Paz used tips and inside information from the police officers to thwart investigations into his brothels, and hired the officers as doormen and muscle.
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In interviews with a dozen unions, only two — Local 32BJ, which represents janitors, doormen and airport workers, and the local arm of the Communications Workers of America — offered unqualified support for public financing.
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The four 260-story buildings comprising Seward Park were designed by Herman Jessor with the idea that laborers were entitled to airy apartments, eat-in kitchens, balconies, grass lawns, landscaped hedges and doormen.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood outside Rockefeller Center after appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," juggling phone calls and live TV interviews and the well-wishes of doormen and office workers on their coffee breaks.
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The contract also offers a "soft landing" (that is, severance and retraining options) to workers displaced by automation, and gives bellmen and doormen pay increases to offset tips lost to Uber and Lyft.
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A Southerner through and through, even after moving to Maine, he was constitutionally incapable of walking down a street in New York without stopping to chat with doormen, bodega owners and homeless people.
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They have a series of planning meetings where doormen, bellmen and butlers recount what each guest likes in order to make sure the hotel has that particular wine or bourbon, for example, in stock.
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Downstairs, the central stretch of the avenue can seem especially proper, thanks in no small part to the uniforms worn by so many of its doormen, whose caps and epaulets are a common sight.
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The union that represents doormen and elevator men introduced me to a man named Rene Richard who had been running a manual elevator in a textile building in the garment district for 40 years.
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The interviews and court records portrayed a crime boss who relied upon seven police officers he had met over his years on the job to be his crew — his legmen, his doormen, his bagmen.
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Apps like Luxy, Raya, Sparkology, The League, and Hanky are the modern incarnation of exclusive clubs, but, instead of doormen, they rely on photo verifications and LinkedIn profiles to screen out the unwashed masses.
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At seventeen, he and his friends began driving to Chicago, three hours away, and bribing doormen in order to get into the night clubs where a danceable new style called house music was being forged.
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They put managers out of work—they put bar backs, security, bartenders, waitresses, VIP hostesses, DJs, house moms, doormen, delivery workers for the alcohol, delivery workers for the food, and cab drivers out of work.
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In interviews with doormen to create a tipping calculator, the real estate brokerage Triplemint found that the "expectation of tips is more hinged on usage than other things," said David Walker, the company's chief executive.
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As Heller notes, the underground economy includes many people, aside from the hoarders of hundred-dollar bills, who rely on cash, such as waiters, doormen, delivery people, parking attendants—in short, anyone who gets tips.
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PARIS — Past the plush Napoleon III sofas, through a forest of orchids and under the keen eye of doormen in pillbox hats, a guest crept out of the Ritz Paris hotel on a mortifying mission.
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After years of opening doors for the Upper East Side's elite, three New York City doormen might soon join their ranks – all thanks to a woman who reportedly once romanced John F. Kennedy, according to DNAinfo.com.
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Now, in my thirties, I'm finally ready to take action against the things I've always hated, such as taking shit from snarky hipster doormen and getting drinks spilled on me by poorly-dressed assholes on pills.
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Master of None is the kind of show that dedicates a whole episode to characters who would be extras on other shows — to doormen and bodega clerks and cab drivers — because aren't their lives interesting too?
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We monitored the agency websites, asked doormen to keep an eye out and even got word of our search to the mysterious Princess Circuit of noblewomen, many of whom own properties but can't afford the upkeep.
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Yesterday, she held the first presentation for her new brand, Scout's General, on the third floor of the bistro Tiny's in TriBeCa — and without any pushy, iPad-wielding publicists or doormen in sight, the atmosphere was serene.
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The doormen at Studio 20173 used to wear them, and it was seen as just the thing to wear indoors when President Jimmy Carter's energy-saving plan lowered thermostats to 22017 degrees in the winter of '22018.
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One board member pushed to outfit the doormen in uniforms and install an Upper East Side-style awning around 2000, but the move was resoundingly voted down, said Elsa Vieira, a conceptual artist who fought the proposal.
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"Come on little puppy," she said, pulling the slow dog down the empty sidewalk, past the long green and black awnings where doormen opened heavy wrought iron doors wearing rubber gloves instead of the usual white ones.
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Chris Round, general manager for a couple Alberta strip clubs including Eden and Showgirls in Fort McMurray, told VICE that's just a small fraction of the relief efforts his team of dancers, doormen, and bartenders have planned.
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Despite the highly propagated image of shiny brown bodies playing soccer and dancing samba in the sun, most black Brazilians are still employed as maids and doormen, with little hope for progress unless you marry up (read: white).
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The problem is particularly acute for apartment building staff like doormen and elevator operators, who are not part of any transaction involving their "customer" and typically rely on change from cab rides or food delivery for their tips.
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Many of these high-end properties come furnished and are in buildings with a long laundry list of amenities and services, including state-of-the-art gyms and spas, 24-hour doormen and concierges, maybe even a chauffeur.
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Nelson Lopez, the residence manager, testified that there are meant to be doormen at both entrances to the apartment building at all times and that all guests would have to check in with a doorman to gain admittance.
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After we had stopped at every floor — and in the lobby, where the doormen would throw in a mini Snickers — we would spill all the candy out and make a pile on the dining room table, assessing the haul and criticizing the offerings.
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Astoria, Queens Although landlords are not obligated to install security cameras or hire doormen, they must provide tenants with habitable apartments, "which includes adequate security and the safe delivery of mail and packages," said David Hershey-Webb, a Manhattan lawyer who represents tenants.
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A burglary suspect on the run for nearly a decade, investigators said, Mr. Sabatino had perfected his technique: He would slip past doormen by pretending to live there, striking up conversations with residents or complimenting their dogs and walking in with them.
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A burglary suspect on the run for nearly a decade, investigators said, Mr. Sabatino had perfected his technique: He would slip past doormen by pretending to live there, striking up conversations with residents or complimenting their dogs and walking in with them.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a two-bedroom two-bath with a fireplace in an elevator building with 24-hour doormen.
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Painters, sculptors, illustrators and photographers work as porters, handymen, cleaners and doormen in all five boroughs, according to Lenore Friedlaender, the assistant to the president of the city's 230,224-member building workers union, 258BJ SEIU, which has had an active Arts Committee for the last nine years.
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In an announcement earlier this week, the city distributed a list of stakeholders on the community advisory board to the project that included Kyle Bragg, secretary treasurer of the 32BJ SEIU, the local representing 163,000 property-services members (doormen, maintenance workers, cleaners, security guards, etc.) across 11 states.
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What I Love 8 Photos View Slide Show ' Until two years ago, when she and her husband signed a lease for the top three floors of a townhouse on the Upper West Side, Diane Paulus, the director of the Tony-nominated musical "Waitress," knew nothing of life without doormen.
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Brokers: Corcoran Group; Cooper & Cooper ____ 360 Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill $859,000 list price 2.8 percent below list price3 weeks on the market 53-square-foot co-op; two bedrooms; one full bath; part-time doormen, renovated kitchen with marble counters and stainless-steel appliances, high ceilings, hardwood floors.
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What's Selling Now 233 East 17th Street, Landmark 43, Gramercy Park Area $3.6 million list price 100 percent of list price 13 weeks on the market 2,195-square-foot condominium; three bedrooms; three full baths; part-time doormen, Stuyvesant Square Park view, eat-in kitchen, fireplace, limestone master bath.
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What's Selling Now 15 East 26th Street, Flatiron district $5.3 million list price1.9 percent over list priceOne week on the market 2,9653-square-foot condo at 15 Madison Square North; two bedrooms; two full baths; one half-bath; 24-hour doormen, concierge, park view, Brazilian walnut floors, washer/dryer.
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On the Market 13 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Greenwich Village, a one-bedroom one-bath with a private roof terrace with an outdoor shower in a pet-friendly prewar elevator building with full-time doormen.
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On the private and cozy third floor of Tiny's in Tribeca, there were no camera-wielding paparazzi, no angry doormen who are sure you're not on the list, and no style peacocks gawking at the chance to be spotted in their getups — the part of Fashion Week, and really, fashion in general, that has become almost too circus-like to be sustainable.
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If that uniform has not caught your eye, it may be because Army Blues can be hard to distinguish, not just from similar Navy and Air Force uniforms, but also from a sea of blue-clad civilians: police officers, firefighters, commercial pilots, even doormen, said Kenneth O. Preston, who served as sergeant major of the Army from 2004 to 2011.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Park Slope, Brooklyn, a two-bedroom, two-bath co-op with a foyer and combined living/dining room in a 1927 40-unit Rosario Candela pet-friendly building with an elegant lobby, 24-hour doormen and attended elevator.
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Occupation: AssociateIndustry: FinanceAge: 93Location: New York, NYSalary: $250,000 ($100,000 base, $150,000 bonus)Paycheck Amount (2x/month): ~$3,000 Monthly ExpensesMortgage: $43,482.17 (I bought a small one-bedroom/studio apartment about three years ago.)Maintenance: $949.91 (This covers building fees, property taxes, doormen salaries, electricity — a significant portion of it is tax-deductible.)iPhone Payment: $49.91Health Insurance: $4.36Dental Insurance: $9Cable: $30Phone: I'm on a family plan, but work reimburses me $12/month.
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In a series overflowing with great moments, a perpetual highlight of any episode of Bouncers —and it's a series past consumed on the kind of Sunday afternoon when the only thing keeping you aware of being human is the occasional gulp of Lucozade and the fear that you might shit yourself— is the incredibly high-tech, state of the art, pseudo-CCTV, bullet time profiles each of the titular doormen receive the first time we meet them.
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When Mr. Burke sold his nearby condo, he gave the furniture to one of the doormen and bought a sectional, a dining table, a desk and a bed, all with simple lines, for his new quarters, the better to showcase the view and the art: Picasso and Chagall lithographs; a group of blown-glass "baskets" by Dale Chihuly, who painted Mr. Burke's work clogs as a special favor; an enormous, brightly painted missionary bell; and a driftwood figure that Mr. Burke bought in Sonoma, Calif.
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