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Orlando Moncada pursued the American dream, and grabbed it with both hands. When he came to the United States from Peru 40 years ago, at age 16, he didn’t know a word of English. He found his way, with his mother and two siblings, to New York, where they joined his father, who was already working in the city cleaning buildings.

Orlando, too, found work as porter and rose to foreman for ABM Industries, a large company that manages office buildings. He last worked at 450 Lexington Avenue, a skyscraper at East 44th Street in Manhattan, where he oversaw the cleaning staff and handled administrative tasks.

Mr. Moncada died at 56 on April 8 at New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, N.Y. The cause was complications of the novel coronavirus, his daughter Bonnie Moncada said.