Blackstone Staffers Return to Park Avenue One Week After Tragedy

(Bloomberg) – Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone Inc. killed one of the armed rising stars a week ago and put the employees to lock the scores of the 345 Park Ave.

Michael Chae, the chief finance manager of the company, came in, stopped shaking hands with three staff placed outside the door, and then there was a group of Bill Rudin, who had a Midtown skyscraper and lost a employee last Monday. Schwarzman, General Manager of Blackstone, and Jon Gray, President of the company, stopped in the lobby and greeted people as he walked.

After what Schwarzman and Gray called the “worst day ında in the history of the company, Blackstone was open to work.

In some respects, the scene had the distinguishing features of a normal week in the manhattan office tower. A man walked to move the cup; A woman made a Citarella bag. Approximately 30 people entered the building for a 20 -minute period and boarded the elevators and set out for a day’s work.

However, he underlined the magnitude of those with other signs. On July 28, the armed man entered the lobby with an attack rifle and opened fire and killed three people. Later, he took an elevator to the 33rd floor, shot and killed another person here, and then turned the gun to himself.

Victims Senior Blackstone Real Estate Manager Wesley Leatner, Rudin employee Julia Hyman, Security Officer Aland Etienne, and a New York City Police Officer Working in the Building was Didarul Islam.

On Monday, the extra security guards and the police stopped Sentinel outside the building. A woman paused before entering the building to domesticate her security dog, and tears spread into her eyes while she caressed her bronze jacket. Another woman walked towards her and hugged her. They squeezed their hands together on their way to the building.

Another woman came out of a Uber with a man who walked her to the doner door: her boyfriend kissing her before she walked in. He said he just wanted to make sure he had entered the building safely.

Bill Rudin, the president of the owner of the property, was gathered with the personnel in the lobby where security guards and police officers were dispersed, and a small pink and white flower vase in the check-in console. A woman who totted a leather bag embraced Rudin and others in the lobby before she went out to greet some guards.

Blackstone told the center employees that the building would be open for employees who want to come today, but it will not continue a normal program until August 11th. The company reiterated that the advisor will host those who have not returned until then and that the advisor is available for those who want it.

Schwarzman and Gray walked on the floors on Monday, checked the employees, and welcomed those returned. On Monday morning, Firmwide Zoom meeting, a praise to Leatner and people shared his memories.

At the weekend, the building personnel made preparations for return. On Friday, the veil covering the entrance was removed. On Saturday, dozens of bouquets placed in memory of a ramp victims on the 51st street side of the building were removed. In the building, he wiped a cleaner floor.

That day, Park Avenue was published by thousands of cyclists, hikers and runners for a summer streets event. Plaza to the plaza in front of the building, a family of children in Scooter, a family from Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood to a breath of breath until a breath.

Some stopped to take pictures and even a pair of entrance walked to the glass wall of the entrance. A security guard deployed outside said he hoped that the site would not be a show.

Blackstone also said that Rudin is working with the New York Police Department and external contractors to increase security measures to employees. The 44 -storey tower in Midtown Manhattan is home to KPMG and the National Football League.

Rudin has supported security in recent years in response to the crimes in the region and the murder of Unitedhealth Group Inc. in December.

On Saturday, a man named Vince, who visited the nearby Crossroads Soup cuisine, sat on the plaza with lunch.

Vince refused to give his surname Vince, “I was surprised that they even opened this region,” he said. “I thought everyone would be like a week to sit here, you know?”

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