Friday 31 May 2019

The Plaza’s many lives: How moguls, labor fights and a changing city shaped an icon

Like many projects today, the construction of the Plaza Hotel was complicated by a fight over the use of nonunion labor. What sets that conflict apart, however, is it resulted in a murder. Before the iconic hotel topped out, ironworkers — angered by the developer’s use of nonunion laborers — attacked ex-police officers who were stationed on the site to keep the peace. One of the officers was thrown through a hole in the project’s […]



source https://therealdeal.com/2019/05/31/the-plaza-hotels-many-lives-how-moguls-labor-fights-and-a-changing-city-shaped-an-icon/

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