Job or No Job, He Saved a Burning Man on 9/11
Hero of 9/11
By Emma Thorne
He’s a proud maintenance worker for NYU now, but for Ivan Almenares, every day carries a reminder of his last job.
Ten years ago, Almenares was working for ABM Industries keeping 1 World Trade Center clean. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was making a trip down to the basement to get Windex and rags when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the tower.
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Life Lessons Serve Resident Manager Well
Super of the Year
Frank Rampino learned his first, and most important, life lessons about hard work and sacrifice from his parents.
“My father and mother had six children,” said Rampino, 53. “We were poor and we never knew it, because my parents worked hard to make sure we always had everything we needed.”
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Stan’s the Man Who Transformed York Hills
Super of the Year
By Annie Lubin
York Hills Apartments on 81st Street and York Avenue is a huge red-bricked building encompassing an entire city block. Juxtaposed just a few blocks east of the pristine properties on Park, Madison and Lexington avenues, the building shouldn’t stand out as a model of immaculacy compared to its neighbors, but it does.
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Princeton Relies On Her the Most
Doorwoman of the Year
As a New York real estate agent in a struggling economy, Donna Brown took a doorwoman job on West 95th Street’s Princeton House in 1990, considering the position a part-time solution to an unsteady, commission-based salary.
Laboring for a Woman in Labor & Everyone Else
Doorman of the Year
By Ashley Welch
Tarini Chakravarti will always be grateful that her doorman was prepared the night she went into labor.
It was around 2 a.m. one day last October when she and her husband Mark Elliott left their apartment in the Vaux Condominium on Central Park West to head down to the lobby. Chakravarti was in excruciating pain and could not think of anything but getting to a hospital.
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The Best in the Building Business
By Josh Rogers
The woman or man who holds the door for you, cleans your office or fixes your apartment has a story to tell, and this week we have the stories of 25 of the best building workers in the city, as picked by the 32BJ Service Employees International Union.
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Atoning with an Eye on Yom Kippur
Remembering Hortie Ginsberg, who knew the answer so well
By Bette Dewing
“You don’t have to be Jewish to wish or be wished a happy New Year” a civic acquaintance reminds me. Nor, I reply, to do some repenting on Yom Kippur—an act that results in a happier (as in “what we need most”) New Year.
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Little Victories and Missoni Mania
Winning one in age of economic and romantic upheaval
I don’t know how I sat through it.
In I Don’t Know How She Does It, Sarah Jessica Parker is “Kate,” an accomplished hedge fund manager who commutes to Manhattan two days a week to wheel and deal in a palatial office with a counterpart (Pierce Brosnan) who is not only a smart, ethical businessman but is handsome, charming and solicitous. Plus, he’s in love with her.
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Green Jewel
To the Editor:
As both a 40-year Turtle Bay resident and an avid walker, I wholeheartedly support construction of a continuous walkway and bike path along the East River between 38th and 60th streets because it will eliminate the most glaring gap in the increasingly magnificent Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.
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The Upper East Sider’s Chozen People
By Amy Kraft
Ronne Fisher has always loved to make Jewish delicacies and homemade ice cream. But the 63-year-old architect never thought she would turn her passion into a kosher ice cream business.
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