Word: doorman
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Then I heard the whispers in the shadows: The Doorman Mafia...
...what of the traditional doorman archetype embedded in the collective consciousness? The Scottish or Irish gentleman, elderly, jovial to tenants, bitter when out of earshot, his brogue softened by decades spent in America...
...their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian, active disparagement of the Irish-American—these are the tommy guns in the Doorman Mafia’s violin cases...
After finishing tasks originally earmarked for someone else, it was back to reading in the basement, where I faced the constant struggle to keep the book from being tossed in a cobwebbed corner, or torn in half— the doorman mafia version of a horse’s head on the pillow beside...
...fact, Brooks has done some of her best musing when she's not even around. In a desperate search to find shoes for a show, Bradley got the keys to her apartment from her doorman so that he could rummage through her closets. "I don't even have to be there to inspire him," she explains. Bradley met Brooks after a stylist put her in a giant Tuleh gown for a fashion-magazine shoot. Since then Brooks has increased Tuleh's visibility by wearing the clothing in the shocking number of magazine party pictures she shows up in. Why Brooks...