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20101115-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 11/12/2010 7:57 PM Page 1 GROWING A BUSINESS GUIDE THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FOR SMALL BUSINESS ® ASSISTANCE P. 19 INSIDE VOL. XXVI, NO. 46 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM NOVEMBER 15-21, 2010 PRICE: $3.00 TOP STORIES Outsider JFK, population 35,000, is seeing FLEEING ARTISTS chiefs an economic liftoff PAGE 2 getting Holiday shoppers go back to future High cost of schooled PAGE 2 living, fewer part-time jobs Black appointment How some lowly highlights trend, bugs became a big drive them but business skills Waldorf headache out of the city PAGE 3 aren’t enough Andrew Cuomo’s BY MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR BY DANIEL MASSEY FOR 25 YEARS tax-cut conundrum , Elyas Khan tried THE Daily News’ front cover last THE INSIDER, PAGE 8 to make it as a musician in Wednesday summed up the gener- New York. The front man for al reaction to publishing executive the band Nervous Cabaret, Cathleen Black’s selection as city Mr. Khan lived in at least 20 schools chancellor: “Huh?” In fact, places, from Bay Ridge to choosing nontraditional profes- Washington Heights, moving sionals to run school systems has become more commonplace na- each time his lease expired and tionwide in the eight years since the landlord jacked up the Michael Bloomberg tapped Joel rent. He worked so many part- Klein, an education outsider, to time jobs to make ends meet lead the schools here. that he barely had time to Challenging the status quo, this compose new songs. new breed has pushed reform agen- BUSINESS LIVES Two years ago, he and his See OUTSIDER on Page 34 wife, Melissa, got the boot FIRST TEST New chancellor must GOTHAM GIGS from their live/work space in win over parents, teachers Page 10 Mapping out a career Dumbo when the landlord path P .. 35 turned the building into luxury ● ANNE FISHER suggests commercial space. That was that you can cash in on the day Mr. Khan gave up on the new frugality P .. 35 New York. ● Physician, MOVERS & SHAKERS Now, the couple lives in Amy Sedaris on crafting Berlin in a two-bedroom and cupcakes P .. 36 apartment they rent for $750. sell ● GAEL GREENE gets back Mr. Khan has a music studio to Mesa Grill P .. 38 with views of the city where he is finishing a solo record. His thyself band has booked a European INDEX tour for December. And after living without health insurance Money woes move NEIGHBORHOOD JOURNAL _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _12 for two decades, Mr. Khan vis- docs to become REAL ESTATE DEALS PLUS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _16 ited a dentist for the first time SMALL BUSINESS hospital employees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _18 in 22 years. CLASSIFIEDS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _30 “In New York, you have so BY BARBARA BENSON FOR THE RECORD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _32 See ARTISTS on Page 34 EXECUTIVE MOVES _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _35 READY TO GO: Katya Tepper, a painter and WHEN DR. ERIC STEINBERG moved THE WEEK AHEAD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _38 performance artist, is moving to Chicago his cardiology practice from Valley THE WEEK ON THE WEB _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _39 when her Brooklyn lease expires in March. Stream to Hewlett, L.I., last year, CHEAT SHEET _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _39 he spent $270,000 on building out buck ennis his new space. He then invested $650,000 on the tools of his trade: nuclear stress machines and 3-D echocardiography equipment. The NEXT WEEK NEW YORK’S payments on the technology alone were about $15,000 a month. TOP 125 PRIVATELY HELD But within months, the finan- ELECTRONIC EDITION cial models on which he based his COMPANIES, AND MORE practice crashed. The federal gov- NEWSPAPER See PHYSICIAN on Page 14 20101115-NEWS--0002,0003-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 11/12/2010 7:58 PM Page 1 IN BRIEF GOING AFTER AN ANONYMOUS BLOGGER, THE What’s good HEAD OF NEW YORK CITY’S TRANSIT UNION has asked a court to force Google to reveal his critic’s name. John Samuelsen said in court papers filed Friday that the blog has repeatedly defamed him with false accusations of incompetence and financial improprieties. All for JFK ... parties involved declined to comment. Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen got an online detractor’s identity by court order last year. Is good for NYC. And right now, business THE NUMBER OF HOME LOANS IN NEW YORK CITY CONTINUED TO DROP LAST YEAR, BUT at our city’s biggest airport is taking off lending to low- and moderate-income buyers rose, according to new data from New York here, the TSA is hiring 300 more screen- University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and BY HILARY POTKEWITZ ers, and the $1.2 billion Delta Air Lines Urban Policy.The number of home loans terminal project, slated to break ground totaled 24,500 last year, down 26% from 2008 WHEN THINGS STARTED getting busy in Au- later this month,is expected to add as many and 60% below the 2004 peak, according to the gust for David Rosenthal and his staff at as 10,000 jobs over the next three years. Furman Center.The number of loans to low- JFK Advanced Medical,they knew a come- People who work at JFK sometimes call and moderate-income homebuyers rose 24% in back was in the works. The main health it “a city within a city,”and in some ways, it 2009 from the year earlier. clinic at John F. Kennedy International is.There’s a steady work force of more than Airport does physicals and drug screenings 35,000 people, and since the facility has AS MANY AS 200,000 NEW YORKERS COULD for airport workers, so Mr. Rosenthal’s both day and night shifts, it, too, is a city LOSE THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS IF waiting room can serve as a barometer of that never sleeps. The airport generates Congress fails to extend the emergency benefits the health of the airport economy. about 230,000 jobs in the area and an esti- that are scheduled to expire next month. Up to “We’re loaded with pre-employment mated $9.8 billion in wages and salaries POPULATION 2 million people nationwide could lose the testing now, which means companies are annually,according to its landlord,the Port A TOWN 35,000+ benefits if the Democratic-controlled Congress hiring,”Mr.Rosenthal says.“It’s fantastic.” Authority of New York & New Jersey. employees doesn’t act. n Whether it’s assessing potential bag- CALLED gage handlers, flight attendants or Trans- The joint is jumping ZIP CODE 11430 portation Security Administration screen- JFK’S EIGHT TERMINALS are jammed with JFK TOTAL AREA ers, the clinic is 50% busier than it was at restaurants, from McDonald’s to The BY THE NUMBERS the end of last year, he says, and the staff Palm. Stores range from nail salons and 4,930 acres has grown to 15 from six. spas to Cartier and Sephora.Starbucks and Weekly shift of the city’s economy The new venues popping up around Dunkin’Donuts are locked in competition CHEAPER IS BETTER TWOFER The dollar’s JFK—a store here, a restaurant there— here, just as they are on the outside. The of flights, and several carriers were swal- slipping value helped exports hit their highest provide hopeful signs of a recovery for the airport has a post office with its own ZIP lowed by competitors. Terminal 4, a main é level in two years. New jobless claims over the travel industry,and possibly for New York’s code: 11430. It has two churches, a syna- international hub,lost 13 airlines,says Jan- past four weeks hit two-year lows. economy as a whole. gogue and a mosque. There’s even a JFK ice Holden, chief commercial officer of “Clearly, something is going on here, Chamber of Commerce, which holds a JFK IAT,which manages the terminal. $4B $310 and the travel end of it could be the tip of merchants luncheon each month. All of these factors meant that fewer -55.6% the iceberg,” says Ken Goldstein, an econ- Back in 2008, the financial crisis hit the people were shopping in the airport’s NYC SALES TAX DROP in AVERAGE collected in first street-vendor ROOM RATE for omist with The Conference Board Inc.

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