A former employee has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes essay about the early days of Hotel Toshi in Complex: "Toshi circumvented the suspicious superintendent problem in many buildings by renting out several apartments under different names. On numerous occasions, I showed up to collect new keys from supers armed with stories about my fictional girlfriend and her new job, or I became Toshi's 'personal assistant' and thought up excuses as to why a single wealthy man needed three cramped railroad apartments in one roach-infested building on the Lower East Side." [Complex; previously]
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