"The desires of someone staying in and ordering room service may vary from a person who is looking for the complete dining experience, " said hotel vice president Jennifer Rutkowski.

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Another memory from the 1977 mayoral race had the candidate and me pacing the hall outside a Midtown hotel suite where Vice President Walter Mondale, who was scheduled to campaign with Mr. Koch, had apparently overslept, or decided to sleep in. (I'd been summoned to take the Vice President's luggage back to the airport and Air Force Two.) Whatever it was, Koch took the mix-up stoically.

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Steve Pinetti, senior vice president of the hotel group, explained how sound environmental practices are now much more commonplace than when Kimpton began its sustainability program.

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Berkley, who has served in the state Assembly and on the state board of regents, is a former vice president at the Sands Hotel.

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"Many of the guests are small business entrepreneurs or tech-y types who leave early in the morning in suits and return to explore Brooklyn in the late afternoon, " said Dev Dugal, Vice President at Globiwest, the hotel's management company.

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When planning for the decks was still in early stages, someone showed Tim Mapes, Delta's senior vice president for marketing, photos of a poolside installation orchestrated by Architectural Digest at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel in Miami.

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