New York Palace Hotel boss gets the door after Ash Wednesday slur

By Kerry Burke and Oren Yaniv
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, March 25th 2009

The manager of one of the city's most luxurious hotels was given the boot after ordering a Catholic employee to clean up his forehead on Ash Wednesday.

"Wipe that f-----g s--t off your face," managing director Niklaus Leuenberger told a bell captain at the New York Palace Hotel on Feb. 25, sources said.

The unholy ultimatum ended up costing Leuenberger his job at the Palace, a swanky 55-story tower on Madison Ave. across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral. the rest