NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Nearly a thousand people were camped out Monday in Long Island City to apply for a job with the steamfitter's union. Most didn't know anything about the technical trade, but ...

Retired steamfitter Howard Finegan, of Rockville Centre, grew up in the Bronx, went to a vocational high school and did not go to college. Yet he and his wife made sure each of their children would — ...