DEP Invoice or Financial Record, September 30, 2001

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E NEW TIMES METRO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2601

CHANGED LIVES

lira Shattered City, the Construction Leader Is King By CHARLIE LeDUFF “’ADWARD J. MALLOY may be the most Manhattan. His rise to power was a steady one. “4 powerful man in New York City you’ve He followed ins father into the steamfitters’ Local u—/ never heard of. 63S in 1960. He became active in union politics, Aspresident of the Building and Construction went to night school during the 197O’s and earned rades Council of Greater New York, Mr. MaUoy two bachelor’s degrees from Cornell University ammands a sizeable army of more than 225,000 concentrating in labor studies. He became presi­ nionized construction workers, truck drivers dent of the steamfitters’ union in 1983, a post he nd laborers. held until 1992, before becoming president of the ■Take, for instance, the recovery and cleanup Building and Construction Trades Council. f the World Trade Center. The work is expected Mr. Malloy, however, is not without his de­ 0 continue for the better part of a year. It is tractors. He has been criticized in the media for mportant to know that not a piece of steel or his lack of oversight at the National Museum of ruckload of cement wiU move in this city without Catholic Art and History, a charity whose board .dr. Malloy’s say. he serves as chairman. The Archdiocese of New When the twin symbols of poiwer and perma- York has asked the organization to remove Cath­ nence crumbled on Sept. 11, things changed for olic from its name. Mr. MaUoy, 66, a former steamfitter who as a After 10 years of fund-raising, the charity has young man helped build the trade center. yet to build the museum in East Harlem. More­ “I’ve never seen cement turn to dust,” he over, its books were audited last year by the said. “That reaUy affects you.” Internal Revenue Service. This proved difficult ____Mr, Malloy, is a composed man who was because many of those records were destroyed in dressed for an intSview-yesterd^Ma-dacks^n. turtleneck puUover and loafers, looking more like anoffiee-Sre-ttoeyearbefore^. _ a professor than a plumber. His office is in the fifth-'floor of the Masonic HaU on 23rd Street ■n JTR. MALLOY has also been pilloried for near the Avenue of the Americas. l\/I chummy relationship with Donald His phone rings incessantly these days. -L V JL Trump, a major employer of members There are meetings with contractors, developers of the union. Mr. Trump has been the beneficiary and politicians. There are 3,000 union members of Mr. Malloy’s influence. When asked if he has working on the World Trade Center job alone. pulled strings to secure union Ioans for some of According to the city’s Office of Management and Mr. Trump’s building projects — pension funds, Budget, the operation is costing approximately he pointed out, are beyond his direct control —- $100 million a week. Mr. Malloy stated flatly, “Sure. I’m'ti^g to get But, contrary to current opinion, the work at my people work. That’s business, and it’s legal.” ground zero has not translated into fuU employ­ Across the street from his office, a new ment for tradespeople in the New York region, complex is going up, built with union hands. Mr. MaUoy said. Most construction jobs in Man­ Tractor-trailers roll down 23rd Street, trucks hattan involving cement have ground to a halt, driven by union hands. AH over the city these and 2,000 workers are temporarily idle. days, there are Eddie MaUoy’s people. Hie reason, Mr. Malloy explained, is the But Mr. MaUoy, an old hand himself, tries traffic checkpoints set up on the perimeter of the carefuUy not to call them his people. city. “This is aunion,” Mr. MaHoy said. “There is “Cement has a life of 90 minutes, and the no T’ in ‘we.’ ” checkpoints are causing two- and three-hour de­ lays,” Mr. MaUoy said. “That makes die cement old and useless. I’m trying to work that out with the proper authorities.” Projects like the AOL Time Warner buUding at Columbus Circle and the resurfacing of the West Side Highway are limping along because they cannot get cement. The job of Eddie MaUoy i is to get those trucks moving. He was raised in the Murray HiU section of

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