Mayor Lois Frankel’s secret trip to New York City
West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel quietly left the city Wednesday for a five-day stay in New York City without telling her own staffers, including city spokesman Chase Scott, what she’s up to.
Why all the cloak-and-dagger stuff?
She’s visiting Manhattan green markets with other locals whose job it is to make of the new downtown waterfront a destination.
There’s a plan to bring a green market to the West Palm Beach waterfront, and I’m told you can only know about green markets if you actually go to one or two in exciting places like, say, Manhattan.
The motley crew with Herhoner on her Labor Day weekend jaunt includes: mayoral friend and waterfront manager Joan Goldberg, Downtown Development Authority associate director Rafael Clemente and Willie Perez, the fired Miami cop who runs a security service hired by the city to keep the waterfront peaceful. Sometimes, he’s Frankel’s bodyguard.
So, who’s footing the bills?
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