Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Finnegan directs home away from home
… I’m still doing a lot of balancing,” said Finnegan, whose parents, now in their early 80s, still live in Galway. He does some consultancy work when he finds some free hours. He’s retained a small number of clients whose systems he knows well, but he doesn’t seek any more.
“I was successful at it and didn’t want to let it go entirely,” he said.
The New York Irish Center, though, has become the main focus of Finnegan’s professional life. “You can’t work at something this hard unless you believe in it to the degree that I do,” he said.
The office manager is the only other full-timer, and there is a part-time building superintendent. A few others receive some compensation for services rendered but otherwise the center is dependent upon volunteers. “There are so many people I can reach out to,” said the executive director.
Nobody has any problems with traveling to a neighborhood that in 1980s was in Finnegan’s phrase a “waterfront cesspool” of drug-pushing and prostitution.
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