Unemployed doorman Alfred Carpenter, 67, stands outside Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan and wears a sandwich board advertising himself as available for work.
Street, beginning in 2016,” Carpenter said. “Covid came and I got switched from evening to overnight. My sleep rhythm was out of whack. I saw a psychiatrist, I took sleeping pills, but nothing helped. I wanted to switch back and the company wouldn’t help me. I resigned. I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t do it.”Age-wise, he added, “People at certain ages can’t get job. I’m 67 and employers don’t want anyone that age. But they don’t tell you they discriminate. They just ghost you.
By early 2022, he was depressed and at loose ends. “I wound up in the psychiatric ward of Lenox Hill Hospital for two weeks,” Carpenter said. “They gave me medication and it helped.” Rough as life became, Carpenter knows that serendipity can work in his favor. Back in the 1980s, he said, he was a regular at the happening nightclub Area — where he met club impresario Steve Rubell, who was getting ready to open Palladium with“They hired me to be the doorman for the VIP entrance,” recalled Carpenter. “I am the best doorman in New York City.”
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