A Bronx jury on Friday awarded more than $1.3 million to a black doorman and three black porters who had filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Bernard Spitzer, the father of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
The four men, former workers at a luxury apartment house that Mr. Spitzer built and owned at 150 East 57th Street, asserted that Mr. Spitzer had them fired because of their race and had them replaced by lighter-skinned workers.
The doorman asserted that he, unlike the lighter-skinned doormen, was ordered to clean toilets and to do so with a toothbrush.
On the first day of a two-week trial in State Supreme Court, Mr. Spitzer, 84, using a cane and hearing aid, testified that he paid no attention to the race of the building’s staff and did not have a hand in hiring or firing its employees. Read more..
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