Posts Tagged ‘Building Service Workers’

BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS AWARDS 2008

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Special Sections

Good building workers do not usually get the credit they deserve. But last week they did. At our second annual salute to the Building Service Workers of the Year, legendary journalist Gabe Pressman led the tribute to the hardworking employees who have gone way beyond the call of duty. Guests at the award ceremony celebrated
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RUSHING THE RESCUE

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

It’s the worst nightmare scenario for anyone living in a building. When their building went up in flames, the residents of an Upper West Side brownstone lost everything in one afternoon, except-thanks to two quick-thinking workers-their lives. On July 13, doorman Endri Brahimaj, 19, had just finished watering the flowers at the Level Club condo
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THE QUINTESSENTIAL NEW YORK DOORMAN

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

There are many advantages to living at 1120 Park Avenue-the building’s classy Carnegie Hill location, a gleaming marble lobby, luxurious apartments worth millions-but none of these assets seem to be as treasured by residents as a blue-eyed, white-haired Irishman named Jimmy Gibbons. For the past 20 years, Gibbons has stood by the door in his
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A REASSURING HAND IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

Carlos Pellecier is a grateful man. He’s grateful for his tenants: “I love my tenants. It’s a joy to go to work. I try to make their day, because, in a roundabout way, they make mine.” He’s grateful to his union, SEIU 32BJ, “because without them I wouldn’t have a job, a pension and security
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BELOVED BY ALL IN THE BUILDING

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

The job of a doorman requires a concerted desire to interact with others, and for Pat Burns, that was the draw from day one. Born and raised in Ireland, Burns moved to the United States in 1969. He has been working with people in some capacity ever since. “Dealing with people is his thing,” said
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MANUEL SANTANA, THE DJ DOORMAN

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

Manuel Santana’s life was filled to the brim. He was a beloved doorman, husband, father, dance maven and DJ. Santana worked the early shift at The Chesapeake, on East 94th Street, arriving home at 3:30 p.m. in time to prepare rice and beans for his wife Marlene and their four children-Reggie, Niko, Dmitris and Bianca-before
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134 UNITS-AND HE KNOWS THEM ALL

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

Juan Cruz knows the name of almost every person who lives in his 134-unit building in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. “I was just talking to one of the new tenants,” Cruz said recently. “He said, ‘How can you know everybody’s name?’ And, I just do.” One resident said that of the four doormen in the building,
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GOING THE EXTRA MILE

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

Joseph Dickerman, who is 89 and a lifelong bachelor, said he thinks of his doorman, Ion (John) Simion, as a good friend-and sometimes even a son. Simion returns the sentiment in kind. The building worker checks in on Dickerman from time to time, an act not required of a doorman
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A WOODWORKER EXTRAORDINAIRE

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

In 1985, a young man followed his uncle from South Carolina to New York to learn the family trade. The youngest of nine-and the only one to fly the coop-he soon proved to be a gifted carpenter. Today, Alonzo Toney, 47, takes care of the floors in all 1,844 units at North Shore Towers, an
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LOOKING AFTER A SCHOOL-AND THE STUDENTS INSIDE

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Special Sections

From the time he was a little boy growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Sean Tonti has always loved working with his hands. In school, his interests went far beyond the wooden name plaques and crooked picture frames he made in shop class. At home, he was constantly taking things apart and putting them back
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