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Maria Vargas
Maria Vargas ( Photo: Sarah Ben-Nun)

Building Service Workers Award Honoree Maria Vargas: Longevity at 3 Park Avenue

Twenty years ago, a friend of Maria Vargas’s helped her apply for a job at 3 Park Avenue. She has been working there as a...

People
27 Oct 2019 | 01:58
Anna Urban
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Anna Urban: 'Home' in the Empire State Building

Anna Urban has been a member of 32BJ for 32 years. She has worked at the Empire State Building that whole time. All that...

People
27 Oct 2019 | 02:00
Juan Garcia
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Juan Garcia: A Strong Work Ethic

Juan Garcia, 49, has been working as a cleaner at Bronx Early College Academy for two years. “I sweep the hallway, make sure...

People
18 Nov 2019 | 12:20
Jeffrey Matthews
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Jeffrey Matthews: There From the Very Beginning

Jeffrey Matthews was 22 when he began working at 300 East 77th St. He started out in construction, and helped put up the...

People
25 Oct 2019 | 11:06
Christina Cintron
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Christina Cintron: In Charge at the Front Desk

At just 30 years old, Christina Cintron has been working at her building longer than it has been around. The apartments at...

People
27 Oct 2019 | 02:02
Abdul Quddus Chaudhry
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Abdul Quddus Chaudhry: Focusing on Safety at LaGuardia

At 64, Abdul Quddus Chaudhry is nearing retirement. When he reaches that age, he’ll have been working at LaGuardia Airport...

People
25 Oct 2019 | 11:05
Nelson Garcia
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Building Service Worker Honoree Nelson Garcia: 'I Come Here Always Smiling'

Nelson Garcia, 41, greets everyone going through the door at 308 East 79th Street by name. He has worked as a porter, concierge...

People
25 Oct 2019 | 11:05
Building Service Workers Award Honoree Saul Otalvaro: Forty-Six Years and Counting

Building Service Workers Award Honoree Saul Otalvaro: Forty-Six Years and Counting

Saul Otalvaro is 86, but looks much younger. He says it’s his work that has kept him in such good health. Otalvaro has been...

People
08 Nov 2019 | 04:43
Jean Rosa
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Jean Rosa: Playing Cleanup on Broadway

Jean Rosa, 35, has the inside scoop on Broadway, though he’s actually not a huge showbiz fan. He’s been a cleaner at New...

People
18 Nov 2019 | 12:21
Andrea Bundy
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Andrea Bundy: An Activist in the News

You may have read about Andrea Bundy in the New York Times ... or the New York Daily News, or heard about her on WNYC. She...

People
08 Nov 2019 | 04:37
Building Service Workers Award Honoree Hamid Mouhcine: Going the Extra Mile

Building Service Workers Award Honoree Hamid Mouhcine: Going the Extra Mile

Hamid Mouhcine, 44, has been a concierge at 20 Pine St. since 2008 — before it even opened. He says he loves the building...

People
08 Nov 2019 | 04:44
Troy Parker
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Troy Parker: From 'Green Super' to Manager

Troy Parker became a 32BJ member in 1988 and has held just about every position a person can have in his line of work. Doorman,...

People
27 Oct 2019 | 02:06
Hector Alvarez
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Hector Alvarez: 'I'm a Workaholic'

As an x-ray officer at 275 Greenwich Street, Hector Alvarez greets visitors, screens their bags, checks the computers and...

People
27 Oct 2019 | 02:18
Building Service Workers Award Honoree Carmen Cecilio Hernandez: In the Shadow of 9/11

Building Service Workers Award Honoree Carmen Cecilio Hernandez: In the Shadow of 9/11

Carmen Cecilio Hernandez lost her brother in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was a manager at Euro Brokers,...

People
08 Nov 2019 | 04:44
Frank Smith
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Building Service Workers Award Honoree Frank Smith: He Cares about Helping People

Frank Smith, or “Frankie the Doorman,” has been a doorman to the stars for 25 years. His building, 88 Central Park West,...

People
18 Nov 2019 | 12:22
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