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Thousands Line Up For 300 Hotel Job Openings
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Jaya Saxena
Published May 1, 2010
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Over 2,500 people waited on line yesterday for a shot at 300 jobs open in the new Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square, which will open in July. The line started on East 48th Street at Lexington Avenue, went up to 49th Street and over to Park Avenue, then back toward Lexington on the other side of the street. One single mom told the Post, "I'm so desperate; it's never been so hard."
Hotel officials were hopefully about the applicants. General manager Drew Schlesinger said, "It's been a wonderful crowd, a lot of well-dressed and well-mannered people. When the economy is booming, you don't get this kind of crowd." He said about 90% of the applicants were currently out of work. Melissa Lucia, a native of Italy with a political science degree, echoed her father's sentiments about opportunity in America. "My father would talk to me about America; he said here you become what you want. I thought this was a richer nation, a better nation, but it has the same problems."
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