The New York Observer

One of those mementoes was a CD by a Canadian folk-rock singer, Angela McKenzie, who lived in the Dunbar, a huge building complex in Hamilton Heights, even before Mr. Singer owned it. (He sold it in the 2005 sale.) When her upstairs neighbor wouldn’t respond to her entreaties to fix the toilet, Ms. McKenzie called Mr. Singer and asked if she could just move to another apartment, which he allowed her to do.
“He took a genuine interest in me and what I do,” she told The Observer. “I think he has an artist deep inside, and he liked to know about what I was doing.”