George Cohen
May 4, 1985 inside Trump Tower.
Thirty-one years ago today, demonstrators furious over generous subsidies to luxury developers descended on a gleaming poster-child for corporate welfare—the flagship property of the man now poised to be the Republican nominee for president.
Gotham Gazette and City Limits take a fair and balanced approach to running through the week’s biggest housing stories.
Becoming a licensed security guard in New York State isn’t very difficult. Yet the “diploma mill,” where schools hand out certificates for a price, as well as schools that don’t make guards stay for an entire day, is still a problem.
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