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...filled atrium at the foot of its Madison Avenue building. But now the whole zoning program is running into serious problems. Citizen groups complain that some plazas are so poorly designed and maintained that they discourage public use. At the Harley Hotel, which is co-owned by Multimillionaire Harry Helmsley iron spikes were installed in seating areas, which kept people out of the public space. After a protest last month, the spikes were removed. Builders of an office tower on the fashionable East Side were given permission to construct additional floors on the condition that they improve the nearby subway...
...Journal, Hennessy said, "All I know is, I wouldn't do it." Cunningham is now a vice president for strategic planning at Seagram, the Manhattan-based liquor manufacturer. For the past eight months, she and Agee have been commuting between a suite in New York City's Helmsley Palace and a home in Detroit's northern suburbs, near Bendix...
...meal of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee at the Polo Lounge is also a chance to catch up on industry gossip. Others say the meal adds an important new extension to the workday. Says Seagram Vice President Mary Cunningham, who had breakfast with Bendix Chairman William Agee at the Helmsley Palace in New York shortly before they announced their engagement: "You are always looking for social situations where you can do business, and breakfast increases those times...
...some hotel owners are turning to computerized electronic locks to foil burglars. The most popular system is made by Uniqey International of Santa Ana, Calif., and is used in 20 European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door...
...totally happy woman. All the exhibitionistic things she does, conducting, staging, running her own opera company, would make her seem a total extravert. But I think by nature she's a very shy lady." Sarah's friends are all people connected with her musical endeavors. Says Helmsley: "I respect her singlemindedness, but it's a very lonely road...