Broker caught in Plaza garbage room for seven hours

A top Manhattan real estate broker was caught in the garbage room of her 14th floor apartment at the Plaza hotel for seven hours yesterday. Joanna Cutler was putting out some trash around 11 p.m. when the door of the garbage room automatically closed and was jammed shut by a piece of particle board that had been laid down to protect hallway rugs. She was found by a building worker at about 6 a.m. after he heard her screams and opened the door. Cutler’s lawyer, Susan Karten, has notified the owners of The Plaza, Elad Properties, that she might sue.