It was billed as a welcome-home party for an apartment house diagonally across West 57th Street from Carnegie Hall that was evacuated as Hurricane Sandy flailed the city and the boom on a construction crane a few doors away twisted and crumpled and dangled over the street.
But the gathering on Monday evening in the apartment building’s lobby was really a surprise thank-you party for the resident manager, John Coyne, who had borrowed a ladder, scaled a wall and sneaked back inside when the streets in the neighborhood were still closed off. From somewhere inside the building, Mr. Coyne sent residents reassuring e-mails saying that it had survived the storm and that their cats had been fed. And their goldfish. And their hermit crabs.
For nearly a week, he kept evacuees “informed” and “hopeful of a quick return,” said the film critic Jeffrey Lyons, who lives in the building, the Osborne, at 205 West 57th Street, at the corner of Seventh Avenue.
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