Quinn Confronts Banks in Bid to Become NYC’s First Gay Mayor
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Christine Quinn, New York City Council speaker, mayoral frontrunner, gay-rights activist and bride-to-be, pointed to Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel in a gesture telling tenants she was on their side.
“Asbestos literally lurks in the air shafts,” she said, after gathering residents and television crews for a Sunday morning tour to inspect moldy walls and rusty refrigerators inside the former home to poets and musicians from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan.