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hey liked a few mode rn-style pieces from West Elm in their home and contacted the Brook- yn-based company about urnishing the residential ortion of the Federalists tyle home, which was built in 1799 and sits on a bank above the East River. The company gave $65,000 worth of furniture to the privately funded Gracie Mansion Conservancy, rather than directly to the family. The furni- ure is now the property the conservancy and ill remain in the home ven after de Blasio, his wife and their two teenagers leave. The city consulted with its Law Department on the use of the mansion before the family moved in last week, according to a mayoral spokeswoman. Aspokesman for the City Conflict of Interest Board had no comment, saying that, by law, the agency only commented the appropriateness of agift if it was rendering a judgment against a donation.

Giving to a conservancy whether one that aids Gracie Mansion or Central Park allows a person or company more irect control of a donation, rather than blankly iving it to the city. But even if the donation unethical, some feel it flies in the ace of a mayor elected last year on a campaign promise to fight income inequality. Alexandra Lange, an a rchitecture critic, wrote in The New York Times that the whiff of something unseemly about taking such a large donation from a single And Hank Sheinkopf, an unaffiliated Democrat- i consultant, said that while one is begrudg- i ng a move to Gracie Mansion clear his heart will always be in Brooklyn taking the furniture ooks like becoming what he ran Gifts to Gracie Mansion are not uncommon. Tiffany Co. donated chin a in 1995 and 2002.

Many wealthy New Yorkers, including philanthropist Brooke Astor, have given furniture. And while de predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, did not live in the home, he spent some his money on a multimillion dollar renovation. Blasio said his family has enjoyed the new home he spoke glowingly about eating dinner the porch and is thrilled that it has eight bathrooms, as opposed to the one on the third floor of their Park Slope home. ut he and his family agonized over leaving their beloved home and the mayor said like to maintain many of his domestic rituals, like driving his son to school. de Blasio is exactly who he says he is: a ark Slope dad who sometimes needs a little extra oot said his spokeswoman, Rebecca Katz.

first family settling in at Gracie Mansion RICHARD Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife and their two children are now living in Gracie Mansion, on New Upper East Side. No one had lived at Gracie Mansion since Rudolph Giuliani left office in 2001. Mayor Michael Bloomberg remained in his town house during his 12-year administration. Some question $65,000 gift offurniture for the house Jonathan Lemire Associated Press ALBANY Richard Marowitz was just a day removed from witnessing the horrors of Dachau hen he found a top hat on ashelf in a closet in Adolf Munich apartment. Still furious over the gruesome sights he had een at the nearby Nazi concentration camp, the 19-year-old self-described Jewish from ew York threw the black silk hat on the floor, jumped off the chair he ad used to reach the item and stomped formal headwear until it was flat.

swear to this day I could see his face in Marowitz told The Associ- a ted Press in a 2001inter- iew, recalling how he the hell out of arowitz, who brought the souvenir back to New York after orld War II ended, died last week at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Albany. is son, Larry Marowitz, told The Associated Press Friday that his father died Wednesday after battling cancer and demen- ia. His death was first reported by The Times Union of Albany. arowitz, born in Mid- letown, New York, and raised in Brooklyn, was playing trumpet in a wing band when he was rafted into the Army. He served as a reconnaissance scout in the 42nd In- antry Division as it fought its way across Europe in 1945.

On April 2 9, his unit was ordered to push ahead to a place called Dachau to beat oth- American divisions headed there. I a 2003 interview he gave to an upstate New York high WWII ral history project, Marowitz told how he and his comrades sped their eeps through German onvoys and enemy positions, firing their guns all the way. As we got closer to achau, we got this awful Marowitz recalled. They were among he first American soldiers to enter the concentration camp, where the Is found bodies stacked inside rail cars and emaciated inmates who were arely alive. prisoners were ust walking skeletons, and they just dropped where they were and Marowitz said.

The next day, the 19- year-old scout was among a group sent to search Hit- Munich apartment. While looking in a closet, Marowitz found a top hat ith the initials on he lining. He jumped up and down on the hat a few times in anger. It was A pril 30, the day Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin. When he heard some skinny Jewish kid stomped all over his fa- orite hat, he committed Marowitz joked the AP in 2001.

Marowitz kept the hat and brought it home. Deca des later, he started bringing it along when he gave talks about the war a nd the Holocaust at Albany-area schools. Despite he horrors of combat and genocide he witnessed, the showman-turned- clothing manufacturer always sprinkled some humor into his stories, his son said. He loved people, he loved to joke Larry Marowitz said. story was told in a 2003 documentary film, Hat At the request, the family will donate the hat to a museum, the son said.

Aservice was scheduled for Friday morning at an Albany synagogue. was to be buried at the Gerald B. Solomon Sarat oga National Cemetery. In addition to his son, Marowitz is survived by is wife of 65 years, Ruth, a nd their daughters, Linda and Roberta Marowitz. WWII vet who found hat dies AP FILE PHOTO 2002 World War II veteran Richard Marowitz of Albany takes a picture of an exhibit on opening day of the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs.

Marowitz, who found Adolf top hat, died Wednesday. story was told in documentary Chris Carola Associated Press.