Maria Silva is accustomed to being the only woman in the building – she has been a “door” in New York City for more than two decades.
Indeed, its position is extremely rare in the Big Apple, which has long had the residential buildings staffed by the Doormen.
As that name implies, the position is most commonly held by men whose essential tasks guide the range from the preservation of parcels, the verification of Guests, and the response to random pain – closure, broken elevators. They also form a strong part of the community of each building.
However, women make up only 3%of this iconic work in the New York City, according to the union demographics, making women rarer than female taxiists, with 6%, or female employees, with 13%.
This small group, told posting sources, has to work hard to get to the door soon – and work hard to keep it there.
“There are times you will get a guest come looking to see an apartment or main office, and they are like,” Oh, wow, here’s a woman, “Silva said.” Once in a while you get them. However, it doesn’t bother me. ”
Despite being the strange man – or the woman – outside, there is nothing else that Silva would do better. The 53-year-old grandmother claims to recognize each resident in her rented building 250 units in Brooklyn, where she is the only female employee of 10. She has worked in the building, under the title “Lead Concierge”, for nine years this summer.
“I know everyone,” Silva said. “Their friends, their parents, cousins, everything. Even dogs.”
Silva joked that she sometimes feels more like a therapist or a bartender than a door, she is known to residents so well.
“Sometimes I’m the first to learn when one of the girls is pregnant, or they will invite me to their weddings,” Silva said. “These are special moments.”
Silva has received two wedding invitations so far this year, and children’s birthday invitations are a constant ready. She said that five or six pregnancies in her building every year are always the cause of the celebration.
One of its residents recently shared the happy news with her – but secretly, Silva already knew.
“I just saw that little lump!” She said. “So sweet, they come in and tell me the sonograms, we talk about whether it’s a girl or a boy.”
It is difficult to lower a misconcorceous concert in the Big Apple. The vacancies are rare and it is widely reported that you need to know a boy – who knows a boy – to find one. If this industry is a difficult notary to access your average Joe, it is even harder for your average.
“It’s not easy for a female get the job,” Silva said. “It is a field dominated by men and being female in position, you have to have thick skin.”
Silva said she was asked by hiring managers for her ability to present work on time as a mother, or later, if she would take extra days as grandma.
“I believe that’s why they don’t like to hire women. They will better hire a man because they are more respected than women in this sense,” Silva said.
Like Silva, Yaphia Unjust believes that being a woman makes her an even better Doorman, though she prefers the “door of the door”.
The unpublished took its concert in the upper action of the Eight years. She remembered walking around the city with her friends and saying something along the lines, “Wow, I would like to see a door lady.”
“My girlfriend was like,” you have to look at it, “said the unprecedented.
The disorder was working on obligations and receivables in a hospital at the time; Lighting on a screen all day injured his eyes. The active and social requirements of this young professional fit her much better.
Eight years later, the female inhabitants occasionally a religious religious religious to bring down the dresses and to throw the crucial vote of which shoes to wear for a night out on the ball. Is a special level of trust she receives as the only woman working at her 30 -unit air conditioning door The building also serves as the goalkeeper of her building for a few days. This role is much more athletic than that of a Doorman – dumping the floors, taking debris at night, wiping windows to mention some necessary tasks.
The unpublished said that while she was unjustly felt separated from the past male colleagues, the hardest part of the work is, in fact, the heavy rise. New Yorkers create a lot of debris, and she is always pulling them out.
“People will walk by and say, ‘Woman’s power,’ said the disinfectant, laughing.
She was on duty lately when the 5-year-old daughter of a family who left and recognized the uncertainties beyond the road.
“I was out doing my job and I saw pulling to her nanny, saying she wanted to go through the street,” the disinfectant said. “When they came out, she hugged me so much. She was like ‘I miss you a lot. There are no doors in my new building!”
New York City’s Doorman is a true city institution. Dooorman stereotype covered, dressed, silver hair and white handle represents a strong obstacle from the streets of the chaotic city, a discrete believer, a watchful friend.
The profession of Doorman is much older than the New York City, however. The ancient Roman Doormen, called “Ianors”, inspired an Ovid poem for a closed lover begging for an useless Ianitor for entry.
Andrew Alpern, a historical architect and architecture, described the modern profession as one in evolution-spending all day greeting taxis in the pre-Smartphone era to navigate the Amazon package now. Professional demographics has also evolved.
“When I was a kid, the Doormen were almost always Irish. They were the largest group when I was growing up in the 1940s. Today, of course, other groups of immigrants have entered,” Alpern said. “And if I will believe [reports]Women have become indecent. “
Sharon Noel Lake marks both boxes-mother two emigrated from Trinidad in the late 1990s and, even after 20 years in business, remains the only woman working in her building of Condo ultra-luxury in the billionaire line.
Although the lake withdrew from the naming of her workplace-his status ready for purposes in the world of New York’s real estate, called her “luxury of luxury”. Discretion, Lake said, is the key to her work.
“We are like the gate holders, and there are many who go,” she said. “But at the end of the day this is their home. I treat it very privately as if it were my house.”
While her official title is that of the goalkeeper, the lake said she wears numerous hats on each given day – runners, Greeeter or Doorman. She is also the administrator of her store for her building for 32BJ Seiu, who represents workers in the construction services industry in several countries.
“Many people ask me, why don’t I go for property manager. Why don’t I go for something else?” She said. “Because I love what I do, and I think if I leave, I wouldn’t be able to help my colleagues as I do.”
The 32BJ Seiu Union represents 28,000 Doormen in New York City, told the Post Union, including 800 women.
Silva, the Unborn and Lake everyone said that women in this line of work should take care of themselves.
“I just learned that I had to stand in my 10 fingers,” the disorder said. “And tell a lot of my thoughts.”
She described a previous boss often singing her for criticism, or male colleagues who enjoyed her for reorganizing the distribution boxes after accumulating them poorly.
“They always say,” Oh, she’s giving the female touch, “she said.
Beyond the typical ribbon, Pangup admitted that she must keep her minds for her to stay safe outside during her late night port. But, she said, the night change takes care of each other.
The lake, the only woman in her crew with more than 30 employees, runs a tight ship, but said she had to win the respect she now commands.
“Being a woman in this position is difficult,” Lake said. “I had my upwns, and I had to work hard for my respect. I always use the phrase,” Don’t let the tone of this voice cheat. “”
However, for Silva, the relationship she has to have with the inhabitants make it all.
Her favorite change will always be at 3:00 pm until 11:00 in the afternoon, she said, because she has to see all the children she has known so well come home from school.
Silva recently received a wedding invitation from a resident she is known for eight years. She will not participate – she does not like to mix her work with her personal life – but she will always accept part of her birthday cake when brought to her table.
Christmas tips do not hurt either.
“The main reason why I’m still there, this is because there is love from residents,” Silva said. “It makes him feel like a house.”
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