Howard Lutnick’s push to evict elderly widows from iconic hotel blows up: NYTA plan championed by President Donald Trump's commerce secretary to clear longtime residents out of a famed Manhattan building has fallen apart. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was a driving force behind a proposed $2 billion sale of the Pierre, a combination hotel and co-op on Fifth Avenue near Central Park, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The…Raw Story1d agoWhole story →Buildpierre hotel sale collapse