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"An industrious vagrant has built a 16-square-foot wooden home on the Manhattan Bridge bike path...." Posted: 17 Jul 2022 04:40 AM PDT "The ramshackle shed was pieced together with plywood, two-by-fours and cardboard.... The front door... latches shut with a bike lock....The squatter is a Chinese man in his 50s or 60s who speaks in broken Mandarin. Approached by The Post on Thursday, he rambled on about Mao Zedong and executed acquaintances, according to a translator.... Local progressive City Councilman Christopher Marte [said]... 'We are not going to comment on this story and don't want to bring more trouble to this man's life. I know he has been there for over a year....'" The NY Post reports.

"I was always so upset about that staircase. I hated those stairs. They were so treacherous. We worried about her falling." Posted: 17 Jul 2022 04:33 AM PDT "Her townhouse was four stories high and while there was an elevator, she never used it. It's a beautiful staircase but I wouldn't want it. It's so steep and deep. Friends used to say to me, 'Why don't you stay with Ivana when you're in New York?' But you couldn't pay me to hang out there and go up and down those stairs.... I begged her to sell [the house] and move to the Pierre. But she said, 'No, I'm never leaving here.'" Said Nikki Haskell, a close friend of Ivana Trump's, quoted in "Ivana Trump's friends worried about her 'treacherous' staircase before death" (NY Post).

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