BrickUnderground

A hard lesson I’ve learned throughout the years as a doorman is that it doesn’t pay to be a pumped up, mega-fit individual.

By saying this, I’m contradicting a post I wrote ...

One of the unfortunate things about working as a doorman is that it’s a seven-day-a-week job. The doors to a building are opened and closed every day, and someone has to staff those doors every one of those days.

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Once the cameras stop rolling, the fun part of a film shoot in the city for some actors and actresses is that they can hop in a taxi and go home. By “home” I mean a building in which a doorman—yours truly, for example—works....

“Lost in the system.” You ever hear those four annoying words? UPS or FedEx sometimes use them to describe your package, the one you haven’t received yet.

Sadly, there's a good chance a doorman in another building knows...

Drinking a glass of water one day, it suddenly dawns on a resident, “My kitchen is sooo outdated.” Many of the original tiles, flooring and fixtures are in place, including that mustard-colored 1970's refrigerator that gave...

Super-men? Super-duper? Super-bad? Those are a few descriptions that apartment dwellers have for their supposed protectors and know-it-alls of a building complex -- the one and only super.

You know these gentleman well....

Can doormen become the object of someone’s fantasies and desires?

Sure, the older roly-poly gentleman manning the door for ages who doesn’t want to retire isn’t quite the man of your dreams.

But what about the...

Ah, ah, ACHOOOO! Excuse me. I just fictitiously sneezed all over my computer screen.

Now let’s apply that same sneeze into a real setting. How about the lobby? Or better yet, the entrance to one,...