With almost 50 cheesy hotel buildings to his name (sometimes two or more to a block), Gene Kaufman has done immeasurable damage to Manhattan.
But Kaufman has a chance to redeem himself. His plan to save the Orange County Government Center, an important Paul Rudolph building in the small town of Goshen, New York, is the best thing to happen to that building since county officials began threatening to tear it down in 2004. Already mistreated by bureaucrats, who found its layout confusing and its systems inadequate (and claimed that every one of its 84 roofs leaked), it was abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Irene in 2011.
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