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My brother and I have five sisters. They are smart and strong, and some days can be as sweet as soda Cuomo rolls a 7 on casinos, pop, as long as you don’t pose a but referendum looms threat to their loved ones. Would I Andrew Cuomo ever attempt to rank the Coleman ov. ’s bet on full-scale casino sisters in any kind of importance gambling in New York has cleared a key beyond their birth order? Only if I hurdle. After finally striking a hard-fought Glenn Coleman G deal with Albany legislators over where to site four

wanted our next family gathering newscom Mr. Cuomo will to turn into an especially bloody new “destination” gaming resorts, now face longer odds: approval from a majority of statewide voters in a November referendum. episode of Game of Thrones. So that’s my personal back story as we present on Page 13 our latest list of Mr. Cuomo’s legislation would place the four initial casinos upstate, with two in the resort- the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York, ranked filled Catskills, one in the Albany area and one in the Southern Tier along the Pennsylvania Nos. 1 through 50, in order of their commercial and border. After seven years, up to three more casinos could be built, including in New York City. civic clout in New York’s business community. At the same time, Mr. Cuomo is hustling to neutralize opposition to the plan. He finally got the Genting Resorts World Subjective? Of course. Yet our power-women sign-off of deep-pocketed Malaysian casino giant —which operates the rankings are also based on reasonably objective racino in Queens—after making a last-minute threat to allow rival facilities to open in the outer measures like revenue and operating budgets, job boroughs. religious groups intend to oppose the referendum titles and chains of command, employee counts in However, , and out-of-state gambling New York and beyond, and board work for charitable behemoths fearing competition could spend heavily to spike it. Adding further intrigue: The bulk of voters determining the fate of Mr. Cuomo’s plan to revitalize the upstate economy will be and civic causes. Plus the occasional je ne sais quoi. LISTEN to a discussion at New York City residents voting in the mayor’s race. Polling Lucky for me I had another sisterhood of smart, CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts strong women in my life to help determine who shows legalization to be a toss-up. —chris bragg stayed, who left, who joined and who ranked where STOCKS TUMBLE. Stocks plunged is long enough to get it done. The on the list: Publisher Jill Kaplan, Deputy Managing Thursday after the Federal Reserve mayoral hopeful rejected the Garden’s HOORAY! Editor Valerie Block, Senior Reporter Theresa said it would pull back its stimulus plea to remain at West 33rd Street and STEEP efforts.The Dow Jones industrial av- Seventh Avenue in perpetuity. She MIDLEASE Agovino, Deputy Art Director Carolyn McClain, rent hikes for Senior News Producer Elisabeth Butler Cordova erage recorded its biggest one-day instead called for a commission to some Stuy Town point drop since Nov. 9, 2011, shed- help the arena find a new home to residents were and Assistant Data Editor Emily Laermer. I can’t tell ding 353.87 points. Losses on make way for the renovation of Penn canceled, thanks to a deal you how much fun some of our meetings were—the Wednesday and Thursday also Station. … NSA SAYS SPYING between owner debates, the laughs. No, really, I can’t tell you. Some marked the first back-to-back de- THWARTS ATTACKS. The U.S. govern- CW Capital and clines of 200 points or more since ment reported that about 50 terrorist the state things just stay in the family. Nov. 1, 2011. Worries about China’s plots—including one against the attorney general. economy and finances also rattled New York Stock Exchange—were THIS WEEK IN CRAIN’S the markets. … LAWSKY BRINGS THE foiled by its recently unveiled, sweep- buck ennis BANKING PAIN. The New York state ing surveillance programs. Mean- OY VEY! Department of Financial Services’ while,Google petitioned a court to al- IN THE BOROUGHS------SOME 14 3 chief regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, low it to tell the public about the 7-Eleven franchises were IN THE MARKETS------4 said he wouldn’t put up with bank records the government has secretly shenanigans, and last week he made demanded from it.… FANCY GRUB AT raided, and 40 THE INSIDER ------6 more, including good on his word. UNION SQUARE. After some in NYC, are His office first fined years of legal wran- being investigated SMALL BUSINESS ------7 ‘Mr. Schron’s Deloitte Financial gling, an appellate for criminal OPINION ------10 employment of Advisory Services offer is real court approved an immigrants. ALAIR TOWNSEND ------11 $10 million and upscale eatery for barred it for a year and is backed Union Square Park. GREG DAVID------11 from advising New by $50 million’ Critics had argued REAL ESTATE DEALS------12 York-chartered —Jason Meister, who that a pricey restau- program. Several mayoral candidates REPORT: 50 MOST banks,citing miscon- orchestrated a $2 billion rant is not appropri- say they back mandatory composting, duct and violations of offer to buy the Empire ate use for public park as envisioned by Mayor Michael POWERFUL WOMEN------13 law during its work State Building for Rubin space. The ruling Bloomberg (see poll, Page 10). … with Standard Char- Schron, owner of the scored a win for the NEW LOCAL BREWSKI. Brooklyn CLASSIFIEDS ------24 GOTHAM GIGS tered on money- Woolworth Building city and the area’s Brewery unveiled a new homegrown DIGITAL NY ------Kenneth Kudulis and his 27 laundering matters. business improve- brew called Greenmarket Wheat. Then Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi- ment district,the Union Square Part- Made in partnership with nonprofit wife, Jenifer, have created a NEW YORK, NEW YORK ------29 RECYCLING FOOD WASTE. monster business selling their UFJ agreed to pay the state $250 mil- nership. … GrowNYC, the beer is made prima- SOURCE LUNCH------googly-eyed Kudu-lah 30 lion to settle claims it transferred bil- New Yorkers may soon be required to rily from products grown within 200 lions for countries subject to U.S. separate food scraps from garbage. miles of the city.Greenmarket Wheat Critters. P. 8 OUT AND ABOUT------31 sanctions.… QUINN PUTS GARDEN ON The city announced plans to retain a will be sold at the Union Square CORRECTIONS NOTICE. City Council Speaker Chris- composting plant to handle 100,000 Greenmarket and at Whole Foods for Jared Kushner is CEO of the family’s real estate company. 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2 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 IN THE BOROUGHS Loehmann’s defies the odds BROOKLYN Despite going bust Bay Ridge NO DUMMY: CEO Steven twice, discount Newman is giving clothier avoids fate Loehmann’s stores a driven $12 million makeover. of Filene’s, Daffy’s to dissent BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI

Filene’s Basement was the first to Locals spar over fall.The off-price retailer became an early victim of the Great Recession. city’s plan to make Next came Syms Corp., which bit Fourth Avenue safer off more than it could chew when it tried to revive Filene’s.Last year saw the demise of Daffy’s, a family-run BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI chain that just couldn’t cut it against new competitors, including digital The heavily trafficked four-lane discounters. stretch of Fourth Avenue cutting Yet, against these odds, Loeh- through the heart of Brooklyn’s Bay mann’s, a 92-year-old discount chain Ridge has been a parlous neighbor- that has filed for bankruptcy twice in hood blight for years. Cars, trucks a dozen years, is still standing. and buses race along next to crowd- To capitalize on its new position ed sidewalks, as subway riders as one of the few bargain retailers emerge from underground and, left in town, the local institution is oblivious to traffic,dash to make bus trying to change its perception in transfers. Since 2006, five pedestri- the marketplace from quick-and- ans have died there—two this year dirty to boutique-style discount alone. chain. Steven Newman, who was Finally, the city is doing some- appointed chief executive of the thing about it, but the solution has Bronx-based firm two years ago fol- drawn a mixed response. That split lowing its Chapter 11 filing,is offer- was clearly in evidence in early June, ing Loehmann’s customers a more when more than 150 residents gath- intimate experience, with fashion- ered at Bay Ridge’s Saint Anselm able apparel and better service, still School auditorium to discuss the at prices of as much as 65% off. new plan from the city’s Depart- He’s upgrading the stores’ decor, ment of Transportation. Sitting in adding accents like framed paint- the back half of the room,some sup- ings and plush chairs, along with porters brought their children, colorful neon tables piled high with brandishing colorful hand-painted fashionable apparel like patterned signs with messages like “No more shorts.To attract younger shoppers, deaths.” Meanwhile, up front, a Mr. Newman has rearranged prod- large group of opponents vocally ucts by putting trendier young de- criticized the project. signers up front. To keep the At issue is the DOT’s idea to

See LOEHMANN’S on Page 28 buck ennis See FOURTH AVENUE on Page 27 Background-check industry STATS AND THE CITY by Emily Laermer

REMAPPING NYC: In the wake of Sandy, the city released expanded under scrutiny as profits soar floodplain maps, adding 600,000 residents to evacuation zones.

Hiring a criminal? district,Sterling is one of the largest day conduct criminal-background 37% 26 players in the criminal-back- checks, up hugely in the past 20 PORTION OF NEW YORKERS now PUBLIC-HOUSING Employers want to ground-check business. Its employ- years. Seizing that opportunity, living in flood-prone areas PROJECTS added to the know. But bad info ees sift reams of court records, on Sterling has morphed into a global map, for a total of 175. Four behalf of clients ranging from Wal- giant—with more than 2,200 em- hospitals were also added leads to lawsuits Mart to Walt Disney, to suss out ployees who conduct 16 million $18.8B searches annually for thousands of INSURED SANDY clients—and it’s still growing. LOSSES covered by BY AARON ELSTEIN Data gathering Founder and Chief Executive covered by private insurers, on 114K114 Billy Greenblatt predicts Sterling private insurers, on BUILDINGS Few companies in New York—or has become the will top $1 billion in revenue in five top of the $12B+ EXPECTED TO covered by FEMA anywhere else, for that matter—are norm since the to seven years by doing more of what covered by FEMA STAND in the growing as fast as Sterling Infosys- it does and by expanding to serve 100-year tems Inc.Its revenue has rocketed to 9/11 attacks nonprofits as well. floodplain by nearly $250 million from just $7.5 “We keep the workplace safe,”he the 2050s, up million in 2001, for a compounded said from his 24th-floor corner of- 68.4% from annual growth rate of 34%—1 per- fice in the financial district with its today centage point more than Apple’s sweeping views of New York Har- $19.5B over the same period. bor.“Businesses can’t function with- COST of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Despite that, and the pivotal role which job applicants or employees out the services we provide.” proposed plan—sans Seaport City—to protect the company plays in the lives of have a record of violent crime, drug All this would be great if not for NYC from storms millions of job seekers and employ- dealing or other felonious behavior. one discordant fact: Sometimes Sources: The City of New York and PlaNYC ees alike,few people have ever heard A study last year by the Society Sterling costs people their jobs by istockphoto of Sterling. for Human Resource Management getting it wrong, by turning up ADDICTED TO NUMBERS? GET A DAILY DOSE AT @STATSANDTHECITY Headquartered in the financial showed that 87% of employers to- See BACKGROUND on Page 28

June 24, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 3 Discover IN THE True Client Service. MARKETS by Aaron Elstein

BARRY SILBERT hopes to expand his firm by Above and beyond connecting hedge funds to investors. is our starting point. buck ennis Facing up to Discover Excellence in Commercial Real Estate Services. Discover Cassidy Turley. hedge-fund ads Peter Hennessy President, New York Tri-State Region 212.318.9790 [email protected] nyone who rides the subway has seen ads for www.cassidyturley.com Jonathan Zizmor, the dermatologist who promises to transform pimply faces into marvels of clear Project & Development Services / Tenant Representation / Project Leasing / Property Management / Corporate Services / Capital Markets A complexion. Soon, Dr. Z may have a challenge of his own: fighting for ad space with hedge-fund managers. Thanks to federal legislation passed last year, hedge funds may soon be able to market themselves directly to the public, ending a decades-old ban. Mary Jo White, the new chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has indicated she wants the new rules finalized soon. Once adopted, they would not only free hedge funds to seek investments from all and sundry, but would also make it easier for small companies to reach out and raise money

from the man on the street—or To help ensure that people don’t riding the subway. get fleeced,Mr.Silbert said,his firm Into this brave new world steps will conduct background checks on Barry Silbert, one of Wall Street’s fund managers and others seeking most successful entrepreneurs of the to raise money via SecondMarket, past decade,offering to play the role though he declined to give details of broker. Mr. Silbert is the founder on how it would do that.That is im- of SecondMarket, a firm that special- portant, as he cautions that many of izes in helping employees at places the hedge-fund managers and small like Facebook or LinkedIn sell restrict- companies seeking to raise money ed shares before their companies go will be second-tier players. public.Now his firm is aiming to ex- Still, exposing the general pand by helping to connect hedge- public to hedge funds sounds like a fund managers and small firms with terrible idea. investors as soon as the government Here’s one reason: According to gives the green light. a study earlier this year by profes- SecondMarket would enter this sors at Oxford and Duke universi- marketplace with its database of ties, 49% of a sample of 12,128 100,000 prequalified customers, hedge funds revised their previous- people who have been vetted and ly reported monthly performance deemed suitable for investing in risky data between 2007 and 2011.Near- securities. The potential market for ly 30% of them ended up making linking private companies with citi- “very substantial changes.” zen investors is huge. Hedge-fund In a letter to the SEC in May, managers and fledgling companies Barbara Roper, director of investor raised $895 billion via private offer- protection at the Consumer Federa- ings in 2011, according to the SEC. tion of America, and Mercer Bullard, That was just shy of the $984 billion president of Fund Democracy, said worth of stock or debt raised through the data “do not reflect an occasion- publicly registered deals. al exaggeration of performance,but “The new rules are going to rev- rather an extraordinarily cynical, olutionize the fundraising busi- calculated disregard for truthful ness,” Mr. Silbert predicted. performance reporting.”

PRIVATE CAPITAL INFLOWS to emerging markets over the past three years, according to the Institute $3.3T of International Finance. That flow has gone into reverse this year as investors yank billions out of Turkey, China, Brazil and others.

4 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 NEW YORK DESERVES MO RE THAN IT EXPECTS. TER MINAL 4, OUR NEW HOME AT JFK.

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Crain’s Guide to Higher Education is a valuable newscom Margaret Chin Inez Dickens Micah Kellner resource providing a look at key offerings from leading educational institutions, highlighting Pro-business PAC’s first picks available courses, specialized programs and any voters have yet to tune in to the mayor’s race, upcoming events to help you expand your let alone the two dozen competitive contests for leadership opportunities in the workplace. MCity Council seats. But a newly formed pro- business, pro-development political action committee will nonetheless roll out its first endorsements and kick off its field operation in early July. For advertising information, Irene Bar-Am Jobs for New York, through which the Real Estate Board of please contact: (212) 210-0133 New York [email protected] , building trade unions and other backers plan

Special Advertising Section to spend $10 million,will unveil en- portant to us,”said Harry Giannoulis of dorsements for two council incum- the Parkside Group, which will run bents and six challengers in the com- the polling and field operations. ing weeks. While the initial focus The organization plans to begin will be on promoting those eight,the stumping for its candidates in early group is not ruling out airing nega- July.Research will be conducted by tive ads against other candidates Phil Singer of Marathon Strategies. viewed as antithetical to its interests. The group also has Ken Strasma,a The endorsees are a mix of voter-targeting expert from Barack elected officials and establishment Obama’s 2012 campaign. candidates who have received the The plan is to spend $2 million backing of their respective party on voter identification and field organizations. They are Council- targeting in a total of 25 races.The women Margaret Chin and Inez Dick- bulk of the $10 million total will be ens and Assemblyman Micah Kellner on direct mail and radio and televi- of Manhattan; Assemblywoman sion advertising. CRAIN’S NEW YORK LEGAL Vanessa Gibson and attorney Andrew Field operations are to start in Cohen of the Bronx; Assemblyman July and continue through the Rafael Espinal of Brooklyn; district Sept. 10 primary.The convention- PREEMINENT LAW leader Costa Constantinides of al wisdom is that voters do not be- Queens; and Steven Matteo of Stat- gin to tune in to local council races GUIDE 2013 en Island. All are Democrats ex- until late August, if at all. cept Mr.Matteo,who is running to The group hopes to elect a bloc succeed his term-limited boss, Re- of council members that would publican Councilman James Oddo. make it more difficult for the coun- “These candidates are commit- cil to override vetoes by a business- Crain’s New York Legal: Preeminent Law Guide 2013 ted to creating jobs and opportuni- friendly mayor and to serve as a ties for middle-class New York- counterweight to candidates will provide you with tips, trends and insights about ers,” said Mike McGuire, political aligned with the pro-labor Working director for the Mason Tenders Families Party.That said, all but two how to make the best decisions for your business-all District Council, a Jobs PAC of its initial eight candidates, in a single comprehensive resource. member. “They understand that Messrs. Espinal and Matteo, have government has an important role been endorsed by the WFP. to play when it comes to rebuilding To be sure, several members of Distinguished lawyers and the economy and helping people Jobs for New York, like Mr. law firms have the opportunity KEY DATES: make ends meet.” McGuire and Pat Purcell of the But the group is prohibited from grocery-store workers’ union, are to highlight their strengths Publishing: working with campaigns; it can’t sit also WFP members. But they rep- and success stories to Crain’s September 16, 2013 down candidates and grill them. resent the more centrist, pro- “We are researching candidates’ development faction of the party. valuable audience of business Close information: records and public statements,com- This first round of endorse- decision-makers, in a trusted Special Early Bird Pricing: 6/28/2013 bining that with targeting data on ments likely represents some of the Regular Close Date: 8/1/2013 who’s voting, overlaid with polling easiest decisions the group will and authoritative content data, and a little dose of political make: All are establishment candi- environment. common sense,and supporting can- dates and front-runners in their didates who we think are most like- races.Later decisions will no doubt ly to support the issues that are im- present more difficult choices. Ⅲ For more information, please visit CrainsNewYork.com/NYLegal or contact Jill Kunkes, Senior Account Executive at (212) 210-0170 or [email protected]. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ‘To paraphrase a famous movie line, we’ll be back.’ Special Advertising Section —UFC head Lorenzo Fertitta, after Assembly Democrats again refused to legalize mixed martial arts in New York state

6 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 SMALL BUSINESS

rettes on the street and don’t visit. The city’s finance commissioner, Bodegas balk at anti-cig plan David Frankel, called cigarette-tax evasion “pandemic” at a hearing in May. Nearly 61% of cigarettes Group opposes stands to lose 15% of total annual Sellers on the black market “don’t statewide in 2011 were smuggled revenue if the proposals take effect, pay taxes, and they don’t ask for ID and sold on the black market, as measures aimed at the association estimates. Public- from kids,” said Radhames Rod- smokers avoided the highest state health advocates say the proposals riguez, owner of Tinton Grocery excise tax in the nation,according to discouraging smoking would deter young tobacco users. Store on East 163rd Street in the a 2013 Tax Foundation study. On Opponents in the association Bronx,which he says is profitable and each pack, customers pay $5.85 in worry about the fines built into the brings in $16,000 in weekly revenue. excise taxes—$4.35 from the state BY KEN CHRISTENSEN tobacco display ban—$1,000 for and $1.50 from the city. one violation and $5,000 for three. ‘Pandemic’ tax evasion Not every owner is worried. “It’s s the setting sun cast a They say that prohibiting discounts Mr.Rodriguez,who joined the as- not such a big part of the business,”

shadow over the and raising the legal age for tobacco sociation last year, said he loses sales said Bassam Ali, who sells five or six buck ennis awning of Red Apple purchases will drive customers to on more profitable fare,like deli sand- cartons a week at Junior’s Deli & UP IN SMOKE: Ramon Murphy says anti- Deli Supermarket on scofflaw tobacco peddlers. wiches, when customers buy ciga- Grocery in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Ⅲ tobacco laws would hurt bodegas’ sales. West 143rd Street in AHamilton Heights, owner Ramon Murphy walked out onto the side- walk and received a familiar greeting from a passerby: “King!” “I’ve been on this corner 17 years,” said Mr.Murphy.“Everybody knows me; that’s what they call me.” GET But lately Mr.Murphy,president of the Manhattan-based Bodega Association of the U.S., finds him- self fighting for attention as the group opposes public-health pro- posals that,it argues,threaten mem- ENERGY EFFICIENT bers’livelihood.After helping to de- feat Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial “soda ban”—rejected AND START SAVING TODAY by a state Supreme Court judge in March—members are opposing The Green Team can get your 5- to 75-unit building energy fi t. what they see as another affront: a trio of anti-tobacco bills. Display ban At the request of Mr.Bloomberg, City Council members proposed a law in late March that would forbid GET BIG the display of tobacco products and packaging in stores. A second bill would ban retailers from redeeming discounts for tobacco products, re- REBATES quire individually sold cigars to be on most high effi ciency light bundled in packs of four, and in- fi xtures in common areas crease the minimum price of a pack GET of cigarettes to $10.50. And a third proposal, co-sponsored by City Council Speaker and mayoral candi- date Christine Quinn, would 190% raise the mini- UPTO INCREASE in mum age for New York state tobacco pur- GET excise tax rate on chases to 21 cigarettes, 2006 to 2011 from 18. “It’s one af- $20,000 ter the other, $115 and it’s already when you install an 70%INCREASE in difficult to for each thermostatic tobacco smuggling make a busi- energy management system radiator valve you install rate, same period ness in this Source: Tax Foundation city,” said Mr. Murphy, who noted that his four-employee store is profitable. “When someone hits us, we’re going to hit back.” The Bodega Association has joined a coalition of 13 business groups, backed by tobacco giant Al- tria Group Inc., the parent of Philip Morris USA, to fight the measures. There are 2,636 bodegas licensed to sell tobacco products in the city, ENERGY EFFICIENCY EXPERTS generating an average of almost 1-877-870-6118 $60,000 in annual tobacco sales, ac- ©2013 Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Ad: Arnell Group ©2013 Consolidated Edison Company of New York, conEd.com/GreenTeam cording to a June report issued by the coalition. The typical bodega

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NYS37% business owners planning to hire within the next six months, flat with last fall PEOPLE Source: American Express Open Small Business Monitor

EXECUTIVE MOVES

New Yorkers for Children: Eric Brettschneider, 67, was promoted to president of the nonprofit. He was previously chairman of the program, audit and strategic planning committees. Institutional Financial Markets Inc.: Lester Brafman, 50, was promoted to president of the financial services firm. He was previously managing director of leveraged finance sales at Goldman Sachs. OppenheimerFunds: Art Steinmetz, 54, was promoted to president of the investment management firm. He was previously executive vice president. He will continue as chief investment officer. Paley Center for Media: Maureen Reidy, 40, joined the nonprofit as chief marketing officer, a newly created position. She was previously chief executive at the Argus Group. Diane Lewis, 50, was promoted to executive vice president of programming, a newly created position. She was previously vice president, public affairs and programs. Maxim Thorne, 48, joined as executive vice president of development, a newly ALIEN INVASION: created position. He was previously Kenneth Kudulis has vice president and general counsel at found an audience Bos Development. for Kudu-lah Critters, QVC: Ted Jastrzebski, like bug-eyed Albee. 51, joined the video and e-commerce retailer as chief financial officer, buck ennis effective July 22. He was previously GOTHAM GIGS president of Hershey Americas and senior vice president at Hershey. Prophet: Chan Suh, 51, joined the strategic brand and marketing consulting company as senior partner and chief digital officer, a newly Nothing to be afraid of created position. He was previously chief executive at Broome Crosby Ltd. Holland + Knight: Stuart Saft, 66, was promoted to New York real estate Husband, wife scare up a living with cartoon monsters practice chair and co-chair of the global hospitality, resort and time- Imagine riding the subway late at night after square-foot studio in Brooklyn. ¶ Kudu-lah fans share group at the law firm. He was Last year’s previously a partner and co-chair of work. Slowly, you see people boarding the train decorate their apartments with the creatures. the real estate practice. top seller morph into multilegged creatures with bulging One turned a picture into a tattoo. ¶ “One more Douglas Elliman: Michael Allen, 46, joined the real estate agency as was Albee, eyes.This is the world Kenneth Kudulis crazy thing worth mentioning,” Mr. Kudulis said, director of marketing for the Brooklyn imagined six years ago on an F train to Astoria, as he pointed to a block of wood with a photo of region and director of sales for Williamsburg. He was previously a a purple Queens. Since then, he has drawn 400 cartoon a four-eyed creation, Brah Probe 1710, walking salesperson for Aptsandlofts.com. monsters living like New Yorkers—fighting to on the Brooklyn Bridge and wearing a ring on HBR Consulting: creature get on a train, getting stuck in traffic, chilling in one of its tentacles. A client requested the ring on Sharon Quaintance, 57, joined the with a Union Square. ¶ Mr. Kudulis and his wife, the drawing, so she could give the artwork as an business and Jenifer, have made a business selling their Kudu- alternative wedding ring for her girlfriend. ¶ The technology jarring operations lah Critters. Mr. Kudulis makes the art, while pictures cost between $12 and $150.The top consulting firm as look Ms. Kudulis runs the business: distribution, seller is a collection of 16 doodles in photographs senior director in direct sales and marketing. ¶ Using photo of Mason jars. Last year, the most popular was the strategic sourcing and business operations transfer, Mr. Kudulis prints his cartoon doodles Albee, a purple creature with two round eyes on practice. She was previously chief onto photos that are often mounted on blocks of its sides, a snaggletooth and a squiggly tail.The executive at LawDocsXpress, which she co-founded. wood, and sells them on e-commerce website couple sold 800 copies of Albee. ¶ “I get asked a Greenwich House: Rachel Black, 37, Etsy, at pop-up art fairs and through partnerships lot, ‘Do you earn anything out of this?’ ” Mr. joined the nonprofit as director. She was previously general manager at WATCH a related video at with shops and galleries in New York and across Kudulis said. “I say,‘Yes, we make a living SummerStage, City Parks CrainsNewYork.com/video the country.The couple recently leased a 160- out of it.’ ” —jolene zhou Foundation.

8 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 ff Venture Capital: Jason Reynolds, 38, Ronald Kreismann, 68, joined the law CORPORATE LADDER joined as director of engineering. He firm as a shareholder. He was previously was previously an engineer at Rallyverse. a partner at Blank Rome. Magnet Media: Matt Ballek, 33, joined Capital One Bank: Jerry the digital content solution provider as Herrmann, 51, joined COUNSEL HAS AN EYE FOR CREATIVITY director of strategic distribution services, as vice president. He THE OPPORTUNITY TO INDULGE different aspects of herself drew former Google Senior a newly created position. He was was previously vice Counsel Anjali Kumar, 40, to rapidly growing Warby Parker as the eyewear e-tailer’s first previously director, client services, at president at SunTrust Outrigger Media. Equipment Finance & general counsel. “A technology focus, a startup environment and a creative design Hotel Chandler: Mike Stewart, 44, joined Leasing Corp. atmosphere,” said Ms. Kumar, a onetime handbag designer. “All these things used to operate as director of sales and marketing. He Marvin Traub in different silos for me professionally, and here I get to bring them all together.” was previously director of corporate Associates: Shaun At Google, Ms. Kumar was part of a much larger legal team that was “making the accounts at the Empire Hotel. Higgins, 63, joined the consulting firm rules.” Ms. Kumar’s move to a small startup means she will be involved in nearly NBCUniversal: Russell Hampton, 51, as operating partner, consumer food and all aspects of the business, from factory-partner relationships, to contract joined the television company as beverage, a newly created position. He executive vice president of franchise was previously president of Coca-Cola negotiations, to oversight of Warby Parker’s philanthropic efforts. “We have pushed the management and global consumer Enterprises-Europe. envelope in social innovation and online branding. I want to do that in the legal field, products for the media innovation and —eva saviano too,” said Ms. Kumar. “I’m not locked into someone else’s legacy.” —EVA SAVIANO cross-company initiatives group. He was previously president of Disney Publishing Worldwide. MetTel: Steven Tunney, 52, joined the wireless and wire-line services company as executive vice president of planning and strategy, a newly created position. He was previously chief executive at MCG Capital Corp. Tobin Parnes Design: Josh Sherman, 42, was promoted to director of strategic development at the architecture firm. He was previously a senior associate. Gerard Orozco, 41, was promoted to principal. He was previously associate principal. 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And now, the easy part editor in chief Rance Crain publisher, vp Jill R. Kaplan f fixing the upstate economy is like climbing a occurred with the state’s Empire Zones, a Pataki-era EDITORIAL editor Glenn Coleman mountain, state lawmakers won’t get much beyond economic-development strategy that Mr. Cuomo has managing editor Jeremy Smerd base camp with their June deals to open four wisely abandoned. deputy managing editors Valerie Block, Erik Ipsen casinos and implement tax-free zones at school Even if businesses are lured to New York by the tax-free assistant managing editor Erik Engquist campuses. program, which the governor rebranded as “Start-Up NY,” senior producer, news Elisabeth Butler Cordova news producer Amanda Fung Upstate has been struggling for years since its the effort is gimmicky, unsustainable and limited by its very contributing editor Elaine Pofeldt manufacturing base departed for Asia and other columnists Greg David, Steve Hindy, Alair Townsend design. After all, somebody has to pay for public services. In crain’s health pulse editor Barbara Benson cheap-labor locales. The transportation advantages it once the absence of spending cuts, zeroing out taxes for select senior reporters Theresa Agovino, enjoyed, such as canals and rivers, are vestiges of an companies requires raising them on others. Aaron Elstein, Lisa Fickenscher, Matthew Flamm I reporters Chris Bragg, Matt Chaban, industrial age that won’t return. Hundreds of thousands of Government’s primary role in fostering business is not to Daniel Geiger, Andrew J. Hawkins, Annie Karni, Adrianne Pasquarelli middle-class jobs have gone, leaving in their wake low- dole out tax breaks and casino franchises but to provide the web reporters/producers wage service-sector positions. And, of course, those human capital and Ken M. Christensen, Nazish Dholakia art director Steven Krupinski bitterly cold winters. infrastructure that deputy art director Carolyn McClain Gov. Andrew Cuomo has centered his upstate economic Casinos and entrepreneurs need to staff photographer Buck Ennis copy desk chief Steve Noveck strategy on tax reform, universities, tourism and even the tax-free zones flourish. Good public copy editor Thaddeus Rutkowski newly subsidized Buffalo Bills. All can play a role in the education, starting with data editor Suzanne Panara assistant data editor Emily Laermer recovery of western New York, the North Country, the won’t take early childhood, is researcher Eva Saviano interns Tessa Berenson, Irina Ivanova, Southern Tier, the Hudson Valley and other struggling upstate very far essential. So is a Laura Lorenzetti, Shannon McMahon, regions. But they will not be enough. modern transportation Elena Popina Casinos, if approved by voters in a November referendum, network, which in ONLINE AND INTERACTIVE SERVICES senior web developer, interactive will kick-start sections of the upstate economy but will never upstate’s case means Chris O’Donnell be its foundation, especially with gambling venues fast trains linking ADVERTISING, MARKETING AND PRODUCTION proliferating in surrounding states. 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10 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 sector workers and virtually every oth- What world are the er government employee in the coun- try. Only Anthony Weiner and Mr. Lhota among the major candidates firmly call for employee cost-sharing. candidates living in? What may shape our future more than any issue is policing strategies to ensure that New York remains the ome of our mayoral candidates are living in a parallel safest big city.Many of us remember universe to the New York City I know.There may be when it wasn’t. Fear kept visitors, a gulf between what they say now and how they would businesses and young people away. Public safety is the prerequisite to actually govern. But I must take them at their word, everything else we value. and many of their words are scary to our city’s future. And here, the candidates are To appeal to the city’s vast number of renters, Christine overwhelmingly opposed to current S police methods, notably stop, ques- Quinn, John Liu and Bill de Blasio all showed up at a Rent tion and frisk. Opponents charge Guidelines Board hearing to argue for a rent freeze. If owners’ that minority men, especially young men, are disproportionately costs are going up, too bad for them. stopped. The police commissioner These candidates are fine with taking uses a state-of-the-art crime- money from other people’s pockets. tracking system to deploy resources, Mr. Liu and Mr. de Blasio also which results in disproportionate support a more direct reach into the stops in the highest-crime areas. pockets of those earning $500,000 Those proactive measures stop many or more by raising their city income crimes before they occur. The drop taxes. They know that there are far in crime supports these methods. more people below than above that Most of the candidates—with line. The numbers work for them. Bill Thompson and Mr. Lhota be- The candidates are in a bind on la- ing exceptions—want to second- bor issues, where the numbers don’t guess the commissioner by in- work for anyone. All city employees stalling an inspector general or have expired contracts. Their union ALAIR TOWNSEND agreeing to a federal monitor for the leaders will take their chances with a department and make dramatic new mayor rather than negotiate with could fund part of it by slashing con- changes in police strategies. Those Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Retro- sultant contracts. Really? Only Joe will hamstring departmental lead- active raises would cost up to $7.8 bil- Lhota among the major candidates ership and result in an upsurge in lion, money the city does not have. has ruled out retroactive pay. crime that will harm us all. The candidates know this, and most Another significant labor cost is The city’s strength can easily be duck the issue, saying they won’t ne- that few city workers or retirees pay undone by bad policies, such as gotiate in public. But Mr. Liu has anything for their health insurance those advocated by many of the can- promised at least partial pay,saying he coverage—in contrast to private- didates. The prospect is horrifying.

Then Al Sharpton endorsed Mr. It’ll be a two-person Ferrer, whose campaign caught fire. Messrs. Hevesi and Vallone faded. The weekend before the Sept. 11 race for mayor election, the polls had Mr. Ferrer in first, right at the magic 40% thresh- old. Because the vote was canceled f course there will be a runoff in the Democrat- because of the terrorist attacks, no one knows what the result would Bringing clients to the next level ic race for mayor. After all, goes the thinking, have been, but it is reasonable to be- there are four major candidates with at least 15% lieve Mr. Ferrer would have won in the latest Quinnipiac poll,plus John Liu lurk- outright rather than lose to Mr. ing with 6%. With support from a mere quarter Green in the rescheduled primary. This scenario essentially repeat- Oof the voters,City Council Speaker Christine Quinn seems un- ed itself in 2005. Another four-way likely to reach the magic 40% figure needed to win the primary contest: City Council Speaker Gif- on Sept. 10. ford Miller, regarded as a rising star when the campaign began; Man- Actually,there is a good chance there hattan Borough President Virginia won’t be a runoff. History tells us so. Fields, the only African-American Consider 1989, when the De- in the race; an up-and-coming con- mocratic primary was regarded as a gressman named Anthony Weiner, competitive four-way contest be- and a return appearance by Mr. Fer- tween a damaged Ed Koch, Man- rer. Mr. Miller faded badly. Ms. hattan Borough President David Fields never got out of the mid- Dinkins, longtime and respected teens, and Mr. Ferrer came so close city Comptroller Harrison Goldin to 40% that Mr.Weiner decided not and civic leader Richard Ravitch. to force a runoff. Mr. Dinkins led for most of the Of course, this year could be dif- summer, Mr. Koch surged, and ferent. Yet the 2013 race offers so Messrs.Ravitch and Goldin tried to GREG DAVID many parallels to every multiple- build on their strong press. Mr. candidate primary since 1989. So Dinkins won without a runoff be- expect a decisive change in the polls Industries served: cause Mr. Ravitch got a whopping because he was supported by the in August, as voters focus on the Financial Services . Manufacturing & Distribution . Technology 4% and Mr. Goldin 3%. teachers’ union. In early August, race, and for the lagging candidates . Retail . Construction . Architecture & Engineering The same pattern—let’s call it polls gave Public Advocate Mark to be abandoned by supporters who Real Estate . Healthcare . Transportation & Shipping the August fade—happened in Green 36% of the vote. Mr. Hevesi want their vote to count. When the 2001. For most of the year, Mayor and City Council Speaker Peter calendar turns to September, it will 488 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 Rudy Giuliani endlessly attacked Vallone were in the high teens, and be a two-person race. As in 2001, 50 Jericho Quadrangle, Jericho, NY 11753 city Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who Bronx Borough President Fernando though, it isn’t clear in June who www.grassicpas.com was regarded as a strong candidate Ferrer trailed with 14%. those two candidates will be.

June 24, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 11 Court-Ordered Public Auction August 28 REAL ESTATE DEALS OUTSIDE IN: Starrett-Lehigh is SALE OF 251 PARK AVENUE SOUTH finding itself located near the middle of Prime Prewar Commercial Property in a hotbed of Flatiron District Starrett-Lehigh has development. its fringe benefits he Starrett-Lehigh Building has shifted from a property on the pe- riphery to one on the axis of midtown south and the emerging Hudson Yards.Just ask Under Armour.The maker of sports ap- parel and performance clothing just signed a 19,000-square- foot deal at the building, which takes up the entire block be- Ttween West 26th and West 27th streets and 11th and 12th avenues. The company will take a portion of the 20-story property’s 15th floor for 10 years as its first New York City office. The asking rent for the space was in the $60s per square foot. No. 7 subway extension next year Jason Greenstein, a broker at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, and David have effectively moved the vast Falk,Newmark’s New York City president,represented the tenant in the deal. building from the edge to the cen- Joshua Stein, as court-appointed Starrett-Lehigh, an industrial building that in recent years became a ter of a thriving new commercial referee (Index No. 651266/2012), lower-cost option for office tenants willing to be located off the beaten path, corridor. will conduct a public auction sale of has increasingly become a place where users are willing to pony up for space. RXR is in the process of invest- 251 Park Avenue South at 2:15 p.m., Under Armour, for instance, wanted to be in the vicinity of Penn Station to ing tens of millions of dollars in the August 28, 2013. The sale will take be convenient for executives commuting from the company’s Baltimore property to make it even more at- place in Room 130, New York State headquarters via Amtrak.But it was uninterested in being located in the gar- tractive to tenants. RXR is expand- Supreme Court, 60 Centre Street, ment center or the indistinct office buildings clustered around the terminal. ing the building’s lobby on West New York, NY. For more information, Starrett-Lehigh, about a mile away from Penn Station, was still relative- 26th Street, redoing the building’s visit www.251pas.com ly close, in a neighborhood with amenities like the popular High Line. large corridors and replacing the “Brands continue to find Starrett-Lehigh attractive because we have differ- roughly seven miles of windows ent attributes that creative companies like,” said William Elder, an executive at that distinctively wrap around it. RXR Realty, the company that bought the building in 2011 for $900 million. The building is currently full, with As part of its space, Under Armour will have a private outdoor terrace a roster of big-name tenants like with commanding views of the Hudson River. Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and It’s OK to brag! Mr. Elder said that the popularity of midtown south, the development McGarryBowen. This is a great accomplishment that you should be of Hudson Yards just a few blocks north, and the planned opening of the —daniel geiger proud of, let the Custom Reprint Department show you how to promote this press. years onto its lease. Levy said it’s what’s inside the build- Furniture seller “It’s just comfortable,” explained ing that Bernardo so appreciates. Adams & Co.principal David Levy. “It’s a great, well-maintained, SPECIAL ISSUE VOL. 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The Medical place. —XANA ANTUNES Center continues to achieve accolades for per square foot. its cardiac and critical care services, and Reprinted with permission from the Craig New York Business. © 2011 is home to a fully-accredited Infants & Crain Communications Inc. All Rights reserved. Further duplication Children’s Hospital. without permission is prohibited. Visit www.crainsnewyork.com. #NB11-026 This will be Allermuir’s first stand-alone space in New York.The ® Eprints (Digital Reprints) BARE BONES VOLE. XXVII, NOS. 26, 27 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM JUNE 27-JULY 10, 2011 Most EDITOR’S NOTE 50 Embarrassment Maximize your exposure and drive traffic to your website company, which also has a location Powerful of riches: city’s women Women NEW YORK IS JUSTIFIABLY VIEWED as a global center Profiles of top executives in real estate, of financial, intellectual and creative firepower, finance, politics, the arts and more and no one exemplifies that image better than the 50 exceptional women identified by Craig as the city’s most powerful. Whether they’re running #28 Pam Brier multinational corporations or the city, overseeing with Eprints. Receive a PDF of your feature that can be President and chief executive thousands of employees or trillions of dollars in in Chicago, previously sold through assets, or deciding what the rest of us read, watch Maimonides Medical Center and touch, these women indisputably wield a MS. BRIER, 65, had an excellent 2010. In a year when wealth of raw power. In fact, selecting just 50 from the many women two New York City hospitals filed for bankruptcy, her so capably managing many of the city’s important facility had revenues of $997 million, up 7.5% from businesses, cultural institutions and government 2009, and it turned a profit. Given the struggles of offices was hard, and ranking them was harder most other Brooklyn hospitals, being in the black still. While Craig editors certainly took at a hospital with the borough’s largest Medicaid In a bad year organizational and financial muscle into account used for web posting and/or electronic distribution. population is significant. for many as we weighed our choices’ relative power, we This year is Maimonides’ centennial. 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12 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 She’s come a long way But don’t call her baby! Media stereotyping still hurts women

BY THERESA AGOVINO 2011 Rank Virginia Virginia Rometty and Kirsten #29 Gillibrand are members of two Rometty of the most exclusive clubs on Chairwoman and CEO, IBM the planet. Ms. Rometty, the first female chief executive of VIRGINIA ROMETTY DIDN’T just crash through the glass ceil- IBM, is one of only 20 women ing last year when she became the first female chair- heading a Fortune 500 compa- woman, chief executive and president of tech giant ny.Ms.Gillibrand is one of just IBM. She soared into the inner sanctum of corporate 20 members of the U.S.Senate America:The tech firm is the 19th-largest company in who don’t possess a Y chromo- the U.S., and Ms. Rometty is one of only two women some. to lead a Fortune 20 company. (The other is Hewlett- JPMorgan Chief Financial Packard’s Meg Whitman.) Ms.Rometty’s reach in the Officer Marianne Lake, corridors of power is vast:IBM does business with 98% meanwhile, has risen to the of the Fortune 500 companies. elite ranks in finance, earning # Earlier this year, while speaking at the U.S. Council the No. 2 spot at the banking on Foreign Relations,where she is a board member,Ms. juggernaut. Rometty outlined different barriers the tech industry Yet the more things must surmount.The 56-year-old said the industry must change, the more they remain harness data to make it more useful for business deci- the same. Despite the growing sions. “The challenge, as always, is culture—changing clout of our entrenched ways of thinking, acting and organiz- American ing,” she said. women in 13.3% To that end, the $104.5 billion company is working business, OF EXECUTIVE POSITIONS in with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to help news arti- Fortune 500 doctors create individual diagnostic and treatment op- cles that companies were tions for their patients. The initiative will use IBM’s focus on held by women Watson, the computer famed for its winning stint on them often in 2012 Jeopardy!, along with the hospital’s expertise. Ms. note de- Rometty said that in the future, computers will need to tails about be more like Watson and boast cognitive abilities. their appearance,their person- The deal with Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where alities and their private lives— Ms.Rometty sits on the board,is one of many programs details that are rarely included IBM has in New York City and around the world that in articles about their male are devised for predictive analysis. Among its others are counterparts. partnerships with the city’s police, fire and homeless- Stories about Ms. Rometty services departments that help them mine data to carry routinely note she is a blonde. out their roles more effectively. An NPR feature on Ms. Gilli- But to make sure that IBM has the talent it needs to brand (No.10) claimed she has serve its customers, Big Blue is placing major bets on ed- a “girly” voice. And according ucation,with one big wager starting here.Nearly two years to a magazine piece, Ms. Lake ago, it joined with the city’s Department of Education to (No. 2) is the single mother of help establish a new public school, called Pathways in a young son. Technology Early College High School, or P-TECH. Quick: What color is for- The school prepares students for careers in the tech indus- mer IBM Chief Executive try.After being mentored by an IBM executive,they grad- Sam Palmisano’s hair? Is Sen. uate with an associate’s degree as well as a high-school Charles Schumer a baritone or diploma. The initiative has been so successful that Presi- tenor? And how many kids dent Barack Obama praised it in his State of the Union does JPMorgan Chase CEO address earlier this year, it’s been replicated in Chicago, Jamie Dimon have? and Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to expand it statewide. References to hair color —theresa agovino and family are child’s play compared with the drubbing LISTEN to a discussion at CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts other notable women on Crain’s list have experienced in media accounts recently. A front-page story in The New York Times painted City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (No. 9) as volatile and vindictive. A month later, as if it were See LONG WAY on Page 23

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Though ad revenue continues to slide—it 2011 #5 Jill #9 RANK #10 #2Marianne 2011 fell 6% at The New York Times Media Group RANK Abramson in 2012—there has been good news on NEW the circulation front for the 59-year- Christine Lake #12 Executive editor old editor.Print circulation for the Quinn Chief financial officer The New York Times all-important Sunday paper has JPMorgan Chase & Co. held steady at 1.25 million Speaker THE FIRST WOMAN to hold the top copies, while subscriptions for MARIANNE LAKE has been one of the prime beneficiaries of the New York City Council editorial post at The New York smartphones and tablets re- turmoil in JPMorgan Chase’s executive suite. An accountant by IF CHRISTINE QUINN delivers Times, Jill Abramson has gar- cently boosted the weekday training, she made a big leap last November from CFO of the on her front-runner status in nered some impressive numbers edition by double digits to 1.9 the mayor’s race and on Jan. 1 consumer and community banking division to finance chief of since she started in September million copies in digital and the entire organization, which reported $21 billion in profits in becomes the new chief 2011. This spring, the paper print—pushing it ahead of USA executive of New York City, 2012. In addition to taking on a much more visible role, Ms. bagged four Pulitzer Prizes, the Today for the first time. Due later she could well find herself Lake is one of only two women on the bank’s 11-member third-biggest haul in its history and the this year is a major Web redesign—the atop this list the next time it is operating committee. Mary Callahan Erdoes most of any news organization this year. first since 2006. —matthew flamm published. So far, she has (No. 13 on our list) is the other. raised $7.1 million, more than Ms. Lake, 42, faces a challenging any other candidate. task. She must help CEO Jamie Dimon During the past seven years, Ms. convince investors that the bank is Quinn’s She could putting its “London whale” loss behind it #6 Mary Ann ability to and that it learned hard lessons from the 2011 steer—or be in the debacle. While JPMorgan’s stock price RANK Tighe stop—City top spot has risen by 36% since the whale #1 Chief executive, New York Council next time surfaced in May 2012, shares in Bank of tristate region, CBRE Inc. votes has America and Citigroup are up 73% given her MARY ANN TIGHE the power to and 76%, respectively. is so dominant in the commer- advance or —AARON ELSTEIN cial office leasing business that she has become derail her own biggest competitor. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s In 2011, Ms. Tighe put magazine pub- agenda. In her quest to build a lishing giant Condé Nast into a 1.1 million- track record and become his

#3 Indra square-foot lease at 1 World Trade Center, in buck ennis heir apparent, the speaker has 2011 a transaction that immediately gave the generally been the mayor’s ally RANK Nooyi WTC site creative cachet. #7 Ruth during her tenure. #3 Chairwoman Earlier this year, Ms. Tighe, 64, brokered Ms. Quinn, 46, has proved 2011 to be a disciplined and savvy and CEO the only other lease that could rival the RANK Porat politician. She has courted PepsiCo Condé Nast deal’s significance. She brought #2 Chief financial officer business support while staying INDRA NOOYI the luxury leather-goods maker Coach into close to organized labor. If she and her peers 740,000 square feet at the first office tower Morgan Stanley caught a major break when a survives September’s conten- proposed ban on selling sugary 2011 that will rise at Hudson Yards.That $750 RUTH PORAT, 56, took one of the toughest tious Democratic primary and drinks of more than 16 ounces #4 RANK #4 million transaction allowed groundbreaking jobs in banking when she became Morgan the general election in in New York City was struck on a rail yards project that will eventually November, she would become Stanley’s finance chief at the beginning of the city’s first female mayor— down by the lower courts. But Patricia include 13 million square feet of commer- 2010. The job hasn’t gotten any easier. as the industry awaits a decision cial, retail and residential and the most powerful openly Though the bank remains one of the world’s gay politician in the U.S. on the city’s appeal, it still faces Harris space. greater scrutiny on health issues. premier underwriters, Morgan Stanley’s —chris bragg First deputy mayor CBRE had overall stock price has slipped by 9%, compared The Yale University graduate revenue of $6.5 bil- has responded by increasing New York City with a 1% increase for rival Goldman Sachs. lion in 2012, and PepsiCo’s investment in Goldman has generated $20 billion in profits 37,000 employees. healthier brands like Quaker, Chairwoman and over the past three years, nearly twice that of Tropicana and Naked Juice, and chief executive Ms. Tighe stepped down as the Morgan Stanley. There is the lingering feeling planning to open a yogurt plant Bloomberg Family that the bank she runs with CEO James in Batavia, N.Y., this year. The Foundation Real Estate Board of second-largest food-and- New York’s first fe- Gorman faces the greatest challenges beverage company in the world WHEN MAYOR MICHAEL male chair at the end among the too-big-to-fail crowd in adapting has also focused on emerging Bloomberg filmed a short of 2011 after serving to finance’s new world order. markets, becoming No. 1 in cameo for the season finale the position’s three- Even so, Ms. Porat remains a respected sales in Russia and India. of The Good Wife, at his side year term. player. Earlier this year, she reportedly PepsiCo’s 2012 revenue of was Patricia Harris. withdrew her name as a candidate to be $65.5 billion was 1% below It’s like that in the real —daniel 2011’s.To boost sales, Ms. world, too. She is the mayor’s geiger deputy U.S. Treasury secretary because she Nooyi, 57, has increased right hand and wields didn’t want to face questions about her marketing for big brands like enormous influence over him. finances. She was awarded $8.1 million in Lay’s. Analysts say the strategy is Ms. Harris also oversees what compensation last year. —AARON ELSTEIN helping to generate growth.The could be Mr. Bloomberg’s company’s shares have jumped most important legacy: his buck ennis about 20% this year. philanthropy. As head of the —lisa fickenscher public Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, she helped raise $58 million for #8 Kathryn of more than 30 proposals to help accelerate Super-storm Sandy relief. 2011 job growth and keep the city’s economy com- And in 2010, she was named RANK Wylde petitive with global capitals. Ms. Wylde has to the top spot at the $2.9 #9 also broadened the partnership’s scope be- billion Bloomberg President and chief yond Wall Street to the city’s growing entre- Philanthropies, which funds a executive preneurial and tech communities. range of causes, including Partnership for NYC The 66-year-old sits on the ex- smoking reduction and ecutive team of Gov. Andrew transportation improvement. THE CITY’S NEXT MAYOR Unlike other deputy is unlikely to Cuomo’s Regional Economic De- mayors, Ms. Harris, 57, have a background in business, velopment Council, is deputy doesn’t just have a portfolio of making Kathryn Wylde’s posi- chair of the Federal Reserve Bank agencies: She has a hand in tion as a liaison between city gov- of New York and served on the ad- virtually every important ernment and the business com- visory committee that helped administration initiative. munity more important than ever. bring the Cornell NYC Tech —andrew j. hawkins Earlier this year, she unveiled the campus to Roosevelt Island. buck ennis

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important executives at the firm, which is #12 Katherine controlled by her husband, Jerry Speyer. In #10 Kirsten 2011 2011, she managed 18 projects and $1.3 2011 billion worth of investments in those RANK RANK Farley Gillibrand #7 countries. #8 U.S. senator, Democrat, New York Senior managing director, Brazil Ms. Farley remains an active and China, and global corporate participant at home through her post as SINCE BEING APPOINTED to Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat in chairwoman of Lincoln Center for the 2009, Kirsten Gillibrand has won two re-elections, raised marketing, Tishman Speyer Performing Arts, where she helped millions of dollars to support female candidates across the Chairwoman, Lincoln Center oversee a $1.2 billion remake of that city country, introduced significant pieces of legislation and been landmark. She is currently working on the featured in Vogue. Now her supporters are circulating rumors MEGA-REAL-ESTATE INVESTOR and developer Tishman Speyer has final component in the 16-acre about a possible 2016 presidential bid. trained its sights for the past few years on still-growing markets property’s makeover: the in China and Brazil, areas of the world that fall under Katherine renovation of Avery Fisher Though that idea seems like a long shot, Farley’s purview.This makes Ms. Farley, 63, one of the most Hall. —daniel geiger Ms. Gillibrand, 46, is building a base and a résumé of headline-grabbing legislative victories. They include helping to secure traders at Highbridge Capital, a large hedge fund. $4.3 billion for Sept. 11 first responders #13 Mary Callahan The division has been an island of calm during a and championing the repeal of “Don’t 2011 stormy year for the institution. Earnings grew by ask, don’t tell.” RANK Erdoes 7% in 2012, to $1.7 billion, and its 24% return on She has labored to appeal to #11 Chief executive, JPMorgan equity was more than double that of the rest of minority and liberal primary voters by Chase Asset Management the giant bank. That success helps explain why sponsoring gun-control legislation Ms. Erdoes, a 17-year veteran of the bank, was and taking a pro-immigration THE SLICE OF JPMORGAN CHASE run by Mary awarded $15 million in compensation last year, position, a reversal from her days Callahan Erdoes is a giant all its own, gener- or $3.5 million more than CEO Jamie Dimon, in the House. Recently, she ating nearly $10 billion in revenue annually a man whom she may succeed one day. convened a Senate hearing to and investing $1.4 trillion in client money.The The 46-year-old sits on the board of spotlight sexual assault in the asset management arm’s 18,480 employees in- UNICEF. military. —ANDREW J. HAWKINS clude private bankers, portfolio managers and —aaron elstein #11 Loretta #15Bonnie NEW 2011 Lynch RANK Hammer #13 U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York Chairwoman NBCUniversal Cable LORETTA LYNCH has put New York businesses and Entertainment Group politicians on notice.Though she has been U.S. attorney for the Eastern District in Brooklyn since THE ARCHITECT of USA Network’s 2010, Ms. Lynch has been on a tear. sanders greenfield timothy seven-year run as the cable-television leader and Syfy’s evolution as a global In December, she helped wrest a $1.9 billion #14 Anna brand, Bonnie Hammer became even settlement with HSBC on charges 2011 more of a force to be reckoned with Tackling that the bank helped illegally launder RANK Wintour in February, when she gained control political money through Mexican branches #19 Editor in chief of NBCUniversal’s entire cable- for customers in Iran, Libya and Vogue entertainment portfolio. corruption Among the highest-ranking execu- other sanctioned countries. Artistic director tives in television, she oversees a dozen The North Carolina native and Condé Nast channels that generated the lion’s share Harvard college and law school LONG THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN at of the $8.8 billion in revenue—and $3.3 graduate has also cracked down on corruption that has Condé Nast, Anna Wintour became billion in operating income—the cable- swept New York politics. She recently brought a even more influential with her networks division brought in last year $440,000 embezzlement case against state Sen. John appointment in March to the newly for parent Comcast Corp. created post of artistic director. Ms. Hammer, 62, must now make Sampson of Brooklyn and scored a guilty plea on fraud sure the channels keep their edge in a charges from Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley. The duties are similar to those formerly performed by the elite changing programming landscape. In May, Ms. Lynch, 53, brought down a global publisher’s longtime tastemaker, S.I. USA will roll out cybercrime racket charged with stealing tens of millions Newhouse Jr., chairman of parent its first original sitcoms next of dollars from banks. —chris bragg Advance Publications, who has year, and what relinquished his day-to-day was billed as responsibilities. the network’s According to a spokeswoman, Ms. edgiest serial Wintour does not regularly review drama, Grace- magazine covers, as Mr. Newhouse land, debuted #16 MaryAnne was known to do, but works with in June. 2011 editors across the company on overall –matthew RANK Gilmartin #35 ideas and direction. She will also soon flamm Chief executive mark 25 years as editor in chief of Forest City Ratner Cos. Vogue. Co-chair of the prestigious MARYANNE GILMARTIN, 49, became Costume Institute benefit at the one of the highest-ranking execu- Metropolitan Museum of Art for the tives in New York real estate de- past 16 years, Ms. Wintour, 63, also velopment when she was promot- spearheaded the Vogue Fashion Fund ed in April to chief executive of at the Council of Fashion Designers of Forest City Ratner. America, which has given out more Among her responsibilities, than $3 million to up-and-coming she oversees the $4.9 billion At- designers over the past decade. lantic Yards development project, —MATTHEW FLAMM which includes Barclays Center. buck ennis

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16 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 #18 Diane von #17 Emily 2011 2011 RANK Furstenberg RANK Rafferty #17 Founder and co-chairwoman, Diane von Furstenberg #29 Metropolitan Museum of Art President, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG’S eponymous brand won’t stop growing.Today, the EMILY RAFFERTY’S ROLE overseeing the nation’s largest art museum keeps growing. Starting in July, the Fifth Avenue company has 85 boutiques around the world, nearly double what it had two years institution, where she started as a fundraiser 37 years ago, will ago. Women’s Wear Daily reported in December that the company’s annual revenue be open seven days a week. Last year, the Met welcomed a reached $500 million, more than twice the number Crain’s record 6.28 million visitors. They were drawn to its growing reported in 2011. collection, which includes the Islamic Art What began with one wildly popular wrap dress in #22 Merryl galleries (opened in 2011) and the New 2011 American Wing (opened in 2012). the ’70s has expanded to include shoes, handbags, RANK Tisch accessories, luggage, eyewear and home Growth at the museum, which has #22 Chancellor an operating budget of $250 furnishings.This year, for the second year in a NYS Board of million, will only continue after it row, Ms. von Furstenberg has collaborated on a Regents takes over the building that is line for Gap Kids. currently home to the Whitney As the president of the Council of Fashion ONLY 30% OF NEW YORK’S high- school grads are college- and Museum of American Art in 2015. Designers of America, she played an instrumental The 64-year-old Ms. Rafferty’s duties career-ready—a statistic Merryl Tisch hopes the new national don’t end at the Met. She became the role in the growth of New York Fashion Week and its move to Lincoln Center. Ms. von Furstenberg, Common Core curriculum, Federal Reserve Bank of New York which puts greater emphasis on chairwoman in December, is the 66, married to media mogul Barry Diller, was at skills like writing and critical chairwoman of NYC & Company, the forefront of the fight to preserve the High thinking, will change. Ms.Tisch and is on the National September Line, which has evolved into one of the city’s has used some of the $696.6 11 Memorial & Museum board. million in federal Race to the Top most popular public spaces. funding to help develop a new —THERESA AGOVINO —ali elkin lorenzo agius teacher-evaluation system, a data portal that provides school statistics, and a set of certification exams for teachers.The measures #19 Barbara will be implemented by the 2011 #20Jenna 2013-2014 school year. RANK Novick NEW “We are asking people to do a #15 Lyons lot of things very quickly; people Vice chairwoman will criticize us for our timeline, BlackRock President and executive creative but we can’t wait anymore,” said director, J.Crew Group Inc. Ms. Tisch, 57. In April, New BARBARA NOVICK says she wears AMERICA’S ENTHUSIASM for nerdy chic can be traced York’s 2.7 million public-school two hats at BlackRock,the world’s students took the Common Core largest asset manager. As a mem- back to Jenna Lyons’ ascension up the J.Crew executive assessments for the first time. ber of the global executive com- ladder. She is credited with overhauling the 30-year-old The Board of Regents oversees mittee, she oversees all aspects of company’s catalogs; renovating its stores, which now the state Education Department, the firm’s business.And as head of government relations,she exceed 400 in number; and making its sister which has a budget of $500 leads a group of 10 executives whose mission is to make sure brand Madewell into a national success. million and 2,600 full-time The retailer logged a 20% increase in employees. investors are represented in discus- —nazish dholakia Shaping sions on regulatory reform. revenue last year, to $2.2 billion, as “Our whole approach is not to re- shoppers clamored for J.Crew’s regulation sist regulation but shape it from an ruffled tops, cashmere sweaters 2011 for investor-friendly standpoint,” said and slim-fit cropped pants. Ms. #23 RANK #18 the 52-year-old, who co-founded Lyons, 44, even has devoted fans investors BlackRock 25 years ago with Lau- eager to copy her personal style Candace rence Fink and several others. They choices: oversize glasses, now oversee $3.9 trillion in investor mismatched patterns. Next up, Beinecke assets, up 12.5% from 2011. she will expand the J.Crew Chairwoman Ms. Novick is also a trustee of brand overseas. The Hughes Hubbard & Reed Cornell University and a board member of the UJA-Fed- company is opening a store THE RECOVERING ECONOMY eration. She has been coaching girls’ soccer for the has in London later this year. given Candace Beinecke and the Westchester Youth Soccer League for 15 years. —ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI law firm she leads a chance to —nazish dholakia bloomberg news shine. Her firm counts several

buck ennis called for cutting $400 million, in part Fortune 500 companies #21 Sheri by slashing more than 4% of Avon’s Lately, Ms. Gilmartin has pushed among its the company in a new direction, NEW McCoy 39,000-employee workforce and clients, and as exiting unprofitable businesses in its chair, Ms. pioneering the use of modular Chief executive Beinecke construction in the city. She is Avon Products Inc. South Korea and Vietnam. Such oversees key buck ennis hoping to not only use the time- endeavors are expected to return the client relationships. and money-saving technique for WHEN SHERI MCCOY joined Avon last company to mid-single-digit growth Hughes Hubbard ranked No. 1 the 15 residential buildings slated spring, she was tasked with a massive on American Lawyer’s A-List of for the Atlantic Yards, but also to by 2016. U.S. law firms in 2011 and 2012 turn the company’s growing makeover of the $10.7 billion Ms. McCoy, 54, who sits on the and had revenue of $365 million capabilities in the method into an cosmetics company. It was a tall board of the Partnership for New last year. assembly line for developers order, even for Ms. McCoy, who Ms. Beinecke, 66, also is the York City, revived investors’ hopes chairwoman of First Eagle Funds, across the city. had three decades of leadership at earlier this year by refinancing debt and sits on the boards for Vornado Success would help the Johnson & Johnson. Avon has and reporting better-than-expected Realty Trust, the Wallace 2,573-employee Forest City been struggling to regain Foundation and the Metropolitan Ratner build on the $1.1 billion first-quarter earnings. Avon’s stock Museum of Art—which she calls in revenue it earned in 2012. popularity in the U.S. and is up more than 50% this year, her “late love.” —daniel geiger overseas. trading around $23. —emily laermer Ms. McCoy’s recovery plan —adrianne pasquarelli Continued on page 18 k of NY’s board of directors 3 women run asset management firms that oversee a combined $5.4 trillion in assets

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2011 #26 Edith #30 RANK #28 #24 Irene 2011 NEW RANK Cooper Pamela Dorner #25 Executive vice president, global head of Group managing director, president human capital management, Goldman Sachs Brier and chief executive, HSBC USA President and AS PART OF HSBC USA’s new strategy, Irene Dorner, 57, is EDITH COOPER’S JOB is to manage the bankers and traders who make chief executive seeking to provide corporate customers with more global Goldman Sachs the envy of the rest of Wall Street. She rose to her Maimonides Medical services while paring back local offerings. Since her position in 2008 and is one of only four women on the firm’s 31- Center appointment as CEO and president in late 2011, the U.S. member executive committee. MAIMONIDES division, with $190 billion in assets and 17,000 employees After joining the investment bank in 1996 to build the is a growth engine (according to American Banker), has closed branches, exited energy-trading division, Ms. Cooper was promoted in 2000 in a borough where four hos- to co-head of Goldman’s commodities business, based in buck ennis pitals are in danger of closing. the credit-card business and decreased mortgage lending. London, and in 2002 was put in charge of the firm’s Pamela Brier, 67, relies on a She’s cleaning up messes, too. In December, futures-trading business. collaborative leadership style Ms. Dorner helped HSBC reach a $1.9 billion In addition to overseeing Goldman’s recruitment at the profitable Brooklyn hos- settlement with the Justice Department for and employee-retention activities today, the 51- pital, which had 2012 revenue turning a blind eye to money laundering at year-old Ms.Cooper serves as vice chair of the com- of $1.02 billion, compared its Mexican branches. mittee that confers the title of partner on the most with $993 million in 2011. The Oxford-trained lawyer and ovarian- fortunate of the firm’s 32,000 employees. Her accomplishments in- cancer survivor has spent most of her 33- Goldman had $34 billion in revenue last year. clude the hospital’s recent year career with HSBC. Besides leading —aaron elstein HSBC USA, Ms. Dorner in February joined the group management board at the bank’s parent, HSBC Holdings plc, making #28Jane her one of two women 2011 among about a dozen of RANK Rosenthal the most senior leaders at #30 Chief executive HSBC worldwide. Tribeca Enterprises —JOLENE ZHOU TRIBECA ENTERPRISES co-founder Jane Rosenthal has been pushing the organization in new directions that build on its successful 11-year-old film festival. #25 Tory The company recently struck deals to 2011 #27 Deanna create Web series for YouTube and AOL; RANK Burch 2011 NBC just picked up About a Boy, a series #48 RANK Mulligan Tribeca is co-producing; and its distribution Chief executive and designer #31 Tory Burch President and CEO company this year released Academy Guardian Life Insurance Co. Award foreign-film nominee War Witch. THIS PAST FEBRUARY, scores of fashion’s of America The 56-year-old mother of two teen finest packed the Pierre hotel for the de- girls is still engrossed in the festival she A go-to but of Tory Burch’s fall apparel line, a WHEN SUPERSTORM SANDY shuttered the finan- co-founded with Robert De Niro, which has 1920s-themed collection that met with cial district offices of Guardian Life Insurance, drawn 4 million people and generated adviser on raves. Ms. Burch had done it again, but Deanna Mulligan, 49, president and chief ex- $750 million in economic activity for the that was hardly a surprise for the so- ecutive of the mutual life insurer, sprang into city since its inception. Brooklyn’s cialite turned designer who found- action, establishing temporary workspace Ms. Rosenthal also sits ed her company nine years ago. throughout the tristate area, making the com- on the boards of hospital crisis Ms. Burch, 47, now sells her pany’s work-from-home policies more flexible several nonprofits, clothing and accessories in 85 of and making sure business went on as usual. including the her own stores Amid the chaos,not only did the show go on, National September globally and Her firm’s but Guardian saw a record year in 2012. The wholesales to company declared an $805 million dividend 11 Memorial & more than revenue payout to whole-life policyholders, the highest Museum and the designation as the Brooklyn 1,000 de- jumped in its history,and its capital rose $302 million,to Museum of the clinical campus of the Albert partment $5.8 billion.The fourth straight year of growth, Moving Image. Einstein College of Medi- and spe- 78% from despite the economic slump, is a major marker —THERESA cine; securing federal innova- cialty 2011 to of the company’s financial health and Ms. Mul- AGOVINO tion award funding to coordi- shops.Her 2012 ligan’s leadership. —eva saviano nate care for the mentally ill;

company, brigitte lacombe and attracting robust physi- which cian recruitment,with 30 sur- employs securities. geons and scores of commu- 2,000, will #29 Marcia She has also tackled cases for clients includ- nity-based doctors new to begin sell- 2011 ing Barclays, Citibank and Reader’s Digest. Maimonides since June 2011. ing its first fragrance this fall. RANK Goldstein Lawdragon named her one of the 500 Lead- State health officials have Revenue last year was $800 #14 Chair, business finance ing Lawyers in America for 2012. The firm turned to Ms. Brier for advice million, according to sources, a and restructuring had revenue of $1.2 billion in 2011. on the current financial crisis 78% jump over 2011. Flagships department Ms. Goldstein, 60, sits on among Brooklyn hospitals,in- for Shanghai and on Beverly Weil Gotshal & Manges the boards of InMotion, an cluding Brookdale University Hills’ Rodeo Drive are also in the organization that provides Hospital and Medical Center. works. IN THE PAST YEAR, Marcia Gold- free legal services to low- She is also a strong supporter The Tory Burch Foundation, a stein has helped British special income women, and Boys of Brooklyn’s cultural institu- four-year-old initiative founded to administrators for MF Global & Girls Harbor, a charter tions, including Brooklyn support the economic empower- reach a $1.4 billion settlement school in East Harlem. Bridge Park and the BRIC ment of women, has distributed with a firm trustee to allow re- She also co-chairs an ex- arts group,which presents free some 100 loans, each worth an av- covered funds to be distributed ecutive committee at the and low-cost arts and educa- erage of $7,000. to former clients more quickly, UJA-Federation and is a tional programming. —adrianne pasquarelli and most recently helped bond in- member of Cornell Law —barbara benson surer MBIA reach a settlement with School’s advisory council. noa griffel noa Bank of America over faulty mortgage —emily laermer Continued on Page 20

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#33 Arianna traffic was up 35% in May, compared with a 2011 #31 Nuria 2011 year earlier, to 77 million unique visitors, #37 RANK #38 RANK Huffington while the U.S. site grew 20%, to 48 million, NEW #26 according to comScore. She now has Pamela Fernandez Editor in chief 1.3 million Twitter followers. Chief operating officer The Huffington Post Last August, the site Liebman Metropolitan Transportation Authority Media Group launched streaming video President and chief channel HuffPost Live,and executive THE MTA RECENTLY AWARDED its 10th and final contract to TWO YEARS after AOL bought recently struck a deal to complete the first phase of the Second Avenue subway—a The Huffington Post for $315 have cable network AXS Corcoran Group feather in the cap for Nuria Fernandez, who oversees the million, Arianna Huffington, TV carry some of its pro- “LAST YEAR WAS GREAT, and I megaproject for the agency. 62, presides over a fast- gramming. think 2013 is going to be our best The agency’s massive, five-year, $24 billion capital growing empire. The liberal And she still finds time year ever,” said Pamela Liebman, budget—think storm repairs, East Side Access and the news site she co-founded in for causes, like the Millen- 50. The real estate market is aforementioned Second Avenue subway—is in her wheelhouse, 2005 now includes seven interna- nial Impact Challenge at Ig- booming once again, and tional editions. However, she ced- niteGood, which aims to sup- Corcoran Group is well poised to as is the Business Service Center, the MTA’s shared-services capitalize. The brokerage added back-office processing center for things like payroll, timesheets ed control of overall content for AOL port young people with ideas for 100 new agents in the past year, and benefits. last year, even as her brand grew. Global change. —matthew flamm with 2,200 spread across the New If you see something suspicious in the transit system and York area and south Florida. In say something, chances are it’ll get back to Ms. Fernandez, 53, 2012, property sales topped who also runs the agency’s sprawling security apparatus, $15 billion, compared with covered by the agency’s $13.1 billion budget. $13 billion in 2011. #34 Jacki With rising demand, But she’s not just a train person: Before signing up with the NEW developers are rushing to get country’s largest transit system in 2011, Ms. Fernandez ran Kelley their projects off the ground, operations for Chicago’s O’Hare airport, the second-busiest in which means ample business for the nation. North America CEO marketing division Corcoran —ANDREW J. HAWKINS and president of global Sunshine. The unit is assisting on clients, IPG Mediabrands condo projects like the MoMA tower in midtown and 505 Court IN THE ROLE SHE ASSUMED in February, Jacki Kelley, 46, oversees all North American operations for IPG Mediabrands. erica freudenstein erica freudenstein The global advertising agency network has 2,300 employees and buys $36 billion in #35 Linda media for clients including ExxonMobil, 2011 Sony, Microsoft and BMW. In 2012, RANK Addison Business Insider named Ms. Kelley the #37 most powerful woman in advertising, and Global head of dispute Advertising Age called her a “rainmaker” on resolution and litigation its list of the 100 most influential women in Norton Rose Fulbright advertising. Previously, Ms. Kelley was global CEO of WHEN FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI combined with Universal McCann, the largest media agency Norton Rose in early June to form the within Mediabrands. third-largest legal practice in the world, She is a board Norton Rose Fulbright, Linda Addison, member of Save formerly partner-in-charge of Fulbright’s the Children and 115-lawyer New York City office, took on mentors a new role:global head of dispute resolution and litigation. Her group accounts for one- emerging third of the $2 billion global practice,which businesswomen has 3,800 lawyers in 54 offices worldwide. through the buck ennis Ms. Addison also serves on the firm’s glob- Fortune/U.S. State al executive committee. Department Ms. Addison, 61, maintains her trial 2011 Global #32 Kay Krill RANK #40 practice, representing some of the world’s Women’s biggest companies in their most important Chief executive, Ann Inc. Mentoring matters. As lead counsel for General Elec- Partnership. FINALLY, KAY KRILL HAS HIT on the right formula for tric last year,she won one of the first Dodd- —nazish Frank whistle-blower cases filed in the U.S. Ann Inc., the women’s clothier she has run for the past dholakia —annie karni eight years.The company’s two brands, Ann Taylor and Loft, are selling trendier looks touted by celebrities including Kate Hudson and Katie Holmes. The real estate crash was sur- Many of its 980-plus stores are getting makeovers, and #36 Dottie prisingly kind to the firm, as Ms. Krill, 58, has expanded the brand’s international 2011 rents remained high and con- RANK Herman do, co-op and townhouse sales footprint, opening an outpost in #41 quickly recovered. Property Canada last year. Such initiatives are President and chief executive sales reached more than $12 working: Ann Inc. logged a 9% net billion last year, up 4% Douglas Elliman sales gain last year, to $2.4 billion. from $11.5 billion Meanwhile, the company’s share in 2010. Elli- DOTTIE HERMAN, 57, is busier than ever. man’s ranks price, trading above $31, has risen Not only is the residential real estate also contin- 27% in the past year. market soaring,but the brokerage Ms. ued to Since its founding in 2005, the Herman purchased a decade ago end- swell, company’s charity, Ann Cares, has ed its licensing deal with Prudential last with new contributed more than $30 year.This led to a huge marketing cam- offices in million to causes related to paign to rebrand the firm as good old Florida and the “Douglas Elliman,” the name with metro area, bringing women, children and the which the city’s largest, and oldest, the total to more than environment. brokerage was founded more than a 4,000 brokers nationally. —adrianne pasquarelli century ago. —matt chaban sophie elgort Power Points INDUSTRY BREAKDOWN: Finance, 7; retail, 7; government,7; media and technology,6; real estate, 5;h

20 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 #39 Sandra #43Diana 2011 2011 RANK Lee RANK Taylor #39 Chief executive, Sandra Lee Inc. #43 Managing director SANDRA LEE, known for her budget recipes, has ramped Wolfensohn & Co. up her charitable role since becoming New York’s un- official first lady when her boyfriend,Andrew Cuomo, IN THE PAST YEAR, became governor in 2011. The second annual Sandra Diana Taylor has Lee’s World’s Largest Bake Sale raised $100,000 to focused on in- benefit Share Our Strength and the Food Bank for vestments in the New York City, where she sits developing on the board. Ms. Lee, 46, world for $250 whose own hardscrabble million private- childhood informs her phi- equity firm lanthropy, is a national Wolfensohn & buck ennis buck ennis

spokesperson for Share buck ennis Co. The former St. in Brooklyn. With rents still Our Strength’s No Kid state superintendent of banks, 58, at record highs, Ms. Liebman’s Hungry campaign. #41 Gail has helped establish microfinance other brokerage, Citi Habitats, is The celebrity chef NEW institutions all over South Ameri- going strong. and editor in chief of Grimmett ca, Africa and Asia with the non- Ms. Liebman keeps a close her eponymous profit Accion, which she chairs. eye on her stock in Realogy, Senior vice president magazine reaches But Ms. Taylor, the longtime Corcoran’s parent company that Delta Air Lines, New York went public last October at $27 a more than 10 mil- companion of Mayor Michael share. During a recent meeting, lion viewers GAIL GRIMMETT oversees all of Delta’s New York Bloomberg, also has an impact in she exclaimed it had reached a through her four operations—including marketing, sales, charitable New York. She’s a board member record high of $53. shows on the giving, and community and government relations. Over of Citigroup, Sotheby’s and nearly five years, she has helped transform Delta into the —matt chaban Food Network Brookfield Asset Management, city’s fastest-growing carrier. With nearly 9,000 and Cooking employees locally, Delta is the only airline with two hubs and chairs the Hudson River Park Channel.She has au- in the city: a domestic hub at LaGuardia Airport and an Trust, the New York Women’s thored 25 cookbooks, international hub at JFK. Foundation and the YMCA of 2011 and in July,she will debut Last year, Delta initiated $160 million in upgrades at Greater New York.She also sits on #38 RANK #34 her first novel. According LaGuardia, and it is partnering with the Port Authority the board of overseers at Columbia to industry sources, her of New York and New Jersey in the $1.4 billion Business School. Amanda empire racked up revenue redevelopment of Terminals 3 and 4 at JFK.The company’s As to whether she’s looking of $50 million in 2012. total revenue in 2012 was $36 billion. New York accounted forward to a break from her part- Burden —lisa fickenscher for about 15% of that figure, according to industry sources. ner’s public life, she said: “Person- ed ouellette Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed her to the New York Director and chair State Tourism Council in 2011. The 47-year-old is also a ally, yes. As a citizen of New York Department of City board member of the Food Bank for New York City. City, no.” Planning and City —lisa fickenscher —annie karni Planning Commission #40 Ellen 2011 AS DIRECTOR of city planning for RANK Futter #33 #44Gail the past decade, Amanda President and trustee #42 Karen 2011 Burden has reshaped more than American Museum of Natural History NEW RANK Donovan a third of New York, or 11,000 Brooks #47 blocks, from Hudson Yards and APPROACHING 20 YEARS of leadership, Ellen Futter Executive vice the High Line to the waterfront on continues to ensure that the American Museum Hopkins president and chief both sides of the East River, even of Natural History remains one of the city’s most President, Brooklyn operating officer vast swaths of the outer popular cultural institu- Academy of Music Continuum Health boroughs, such as the Bronx’s tions—with 5 million visitors The entire Partners annually and a $169 million Grand Concourse and Jamaica, campus KAREN BROOKS HOPKINS will GAIL DONOVAN oversees operations at Queens. budget.She has equipped the one of the city’s largest hospital entire campus with Wi-Fi has been go to great lengths to win The pace of this work has donations.This spring, the systems, with 15,500 employees and a slowed in recent years, but not and launched six apps since equipped budget of more than $3 billion. Beth the ambition. The Department of 2010. with Wi-Fi 61-year-old traveled to buck ennis Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s- City Planning is currently Urban Advantage, a sci- Siberia after she got a Roosevelt Hospital and New York undertaking the contentious, ence education program for middle-schoolers she helped $1 million commitment from Russian Eye and Ear skyline-altering rezoning of east launch, has expanded to in- billionaire and Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Infirmary are midtown. Ms. Burden, 69, also among the clude a quarter of public middle schools this year. holds sway over a number of Prokhorov to start a cultural exchange institutions A master’s in the Art of Teaching program, a first program.The Nets’ arena bolsters Brooklyn’s under her private projects rushing to get for a museum, debuted in approved before the business- purview. 2012. allure, but BAM’s expansive offerings are the Continuum friendly Mayor Michael The onetime Barnard borough’s core as an arts destination. Health Partners Bloomberg leaves office, from president,63,is a director During the past five years, Ms. Hopkins’ recently sold Long Madison Square Garden’s at Memorial Sloan- Island College Hospital to SUNY controversial special-permit Kettering and the fundraising has brought in close to $300 Downstate, triggering a battle over the renewal to the massive re- Brookings Institution;a million for everything from the endowment Brooklyn hospital’s future. Now Ms. rezoning of the Domino site in Consolidated Edison to broadening programming at the Donovan, 56, is involved in merger Williamsburg, and a 630-foot negotiations between Continuum and trustee and board mem- institution, which has a $53 million budget. Mount Sinai Medical Center. Ferris wheel on Staten Island. All ber; and an independent Last year, BAM opened the Richard B. Ms. Donovan sits on the board of this while helping map out director on JPMorgan the Greater New York Hospital development plans and zoning Chase’s risk policy Fisher Building, a $50 million addition Association, the American College of codes to prevent the committee, which with a theater and classroom. The new Healthcare Executives and the New devastation of another has come under fire building helped push attendance at the York Association for Ambulatory Superstorm Sandy. since the “London Care. She is a regional policy board whale” trade deba- complex to 677,000 for the fiscal year member of the American Hospital —MATT CHABAN Association. cle last year. ended June 30, 2012, an increase of 9% over —barbara benson —eva saviano the previous year. buck ennis bachrach —theresa agovino Continued on Page 22

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#47 Jennifer who has led the college #50 NEW 2011 since 2001, spearheaded #45Deborah RANK Raab the expansion. She has NEW #44 also presided over Laurie Winshel President growing enrollment, Glimcher President and chief operating Hunter College which has jumped by officer, Robin Hood Foundation nearly 10%, to more Dean DEBORAH WINSHEL’S JOB took on a whole new dimension after IN 2011, Hunter College’s Silber- than 22,000,since 2011. Weill Cornell Medical Superstorm Sandy. The Robin Hood Foundation, started by man School of Social Work Projected revenue for College hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, was already giving out moved into a new building in East 2013 is about $243 mil- Harlem. Last year, the college pur- lion, up 8.5% from 2012. Provost of medical more than $100 million a year to fight poverty in New York City. affairs, Cornell University The storm’s destruction increased need exponentially. chased a floor in the new Weill Cornell Ms. Raab, 57, sits on the Ms. Winshel, 54, who joined the Medical College for its neuroscience pro- board of the After School Corp., an or- DR. LAURIE GLIMCHER made her gram. Now Hunter is opening up a street- ganization that works to expand school organization in 2010, said it began New York City debut in January level gallery for its art programs in TriBeCa. hours, and is a member of the Council on 2012 when she took the top spot at doling out an average of $450,000 a Jennifer Raab,a Washington Heights na- Foreign Relations. Weill Cornell Medical College as day after the storm through early April tive who attended Hunter High School and —emily laermer dean, leaving behind a stellar for many types of assistance, career in medicine, research and including food and health care. The academia at Harvard. Weill charity raised a total of $70 million for Cornell is one of the country’s Sandy victims, including $50 million fastest-growing private medical from a star-studded concert it produced #48 Judith schools. Its operating budget, $1.4 2011 billion in the fiscal year ending in December. All of that money has June 30, rises to $1.53 billion been distributed. RANK Rodin beginning July 1; it has a research #45 Last year, the foundation President budget of $250 million. Its current gave away $132 million, and at The Rockefeller Foundation endowment and related funds are its splashy annual gala in May $1.3 billion. THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION it raised more than $80 million. turns 100 this Dr. Glimcher, an year, and Judith Rodin has some big events in immunologist, has vowed to —THERESA AGOVINO store to mark the milestone, such as the 100 recruit some 30 top physician- Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, which will scientists and researchers to the make cities better prepared for catastrophes. school, and is leading Weill Since taking the helm in 2005 as the Cornell’s collaboration with the #46 Suri organization’s first female president, Ms. Rodin, Cornell NYC Tech campus. 2011 #49 Patricia She also is overseeing the final 68, has steered it toward using innovative 2011 RANK Kasirer approaches to tackle global problems. One of touches on the Belfer Research RANK Lynch #46 President the organization’s most recent initiatives, Building, scheduled for Digital Jobs Africa, will provide training to #49 President completion in late 2013, which Kasirer Consulting disadvantaged children in six countries and Patricia Lynch Associates will double the medical school’s aims to have an impact on 1 million people. existing research laboratory space, SURI KASIRER, 53, is New York City’s The foundation’s total assets were valued at accelerating the translation of highest-grossing lobbyist. In 2012, her about $3.5 billion as of 2011, SPENDING ON LOBBYING may be down in research findings from the firm generated revenue of more than $6 down just slightly from a year New York overall, but Patricia Lynch’s laboratory bench to the patient’s million in New York earlier, but up from 2009. In firm remains the state’s second- bedside. The firm City lobbying, nearly 2011, it distributed more than highest-grossing lobbyist. In 2012, it Dr. Glimcher, 62, is on the generated double any other $170 million and allocated $55 posted revenue of $6.7 million (down board of Memorial competitor in the Big Apple.It also jumped million more, about the same as from $7.5 million in 2011) from its sta- Sloan-Kettering revenue of the previous year. Cancer Center to No. 3 from No. 5 in state rankings. Before the Rocke- ble of 124 clients, such as Coca-Cola. and the New $6M+ last Recently, Ms. Kasirer has notched key feller Foundation, Ms. Ms. Lynch, 55, a former top aide to York Blood year victories including helping Cornell win Rodin was the first Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is Center, among the rights to build a tech campus on Roos- female president of an also relied on by gambling giant other evelt Island and getting the controversial Ivy League university Genting,sports industry titan Madison organizations. approval of the South Street Seaport de- at her alma mater, the Square Garden Co.and major develop- —barbara velopment for Howard Hughes Corp. She University of er the Related Cos.to fight for their in- benson is also at the center of the debate about legalizing gambling in Pennsylvania. terests in the state,typically with tens of New York, advising MGM Resorts World. —ali elkin millions of dollars riding on the results. —chris bragg —andrew j. hawkins

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Alphabetical index powerhouse Skadden Arps, left that firm for a smaller NAME PAGE NAME PAGE WE BID THEM ADIEU shop, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and thus lost her spot at No. 23. Jill Abramson ...... 14 Kay Krill ...... 20 ELEVEN NEWCOMERS MADE Crain’s 2013 list of the 50 Tina Brown was No. 32 in 2011 as editor of Linda Addison ...... 20 Marianne Lake ...... 14 Most Powerful Women in New York, as some of the Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Her high hopes of Candace Beinecke ...... 17 Sandra Lee...... 21 Pamela Brier ...... 18 Pam Liebman ...... 20 distinguished women honored in 2011 retired, were fired synergies between the print and Web products didn’t pan Karen Brooks Hopkins...... 21 Loretta Lynch...... 16 or otherwise moved on. A handful of those on the 2011 list out. Newsweek ceased print publication in the U.S. last Tory Burch ...... 18 Patricia Lynch ...... 22 remain in their roles, but their stars were eclipsed. year, and the historic brand is for sale. Amanda Burden...... 21 Jenna Lyons ...... 17 The latest list’s most noteworthy no-show is Sallie Other women honored in 2011 maintain prominent Mary Callahan Erdoes...... 16 Sheri McCoy...... 17 Krawcheck, who was ranked No. 5 in 2011, before she careers but were struck from this year’s list to make way Edith Cooper ...... 18 Deanna Mulligan...... 18 was ousted from her post as Bank of America’s president for new faces. They are Sarah Dahlgren, formerly No. 24 Gail Donovan ...... 21 Indra Nooyi...... 14 of global wealth and investment management. She Irene Dorner ...... 18 Barbara Novick ...... 17 as the head of bank supervision at the Federal Reserve Katherine Farley ...... 16 Ruth Porat ...... 14 recently purchased 85 Broads, a networking and support Bank of New York; Meredith Whitney, formerly No. 36 as Nuria Fernandez ...... 20 Christine Quinn ...... 14 group for women in business. CEO of her eponymous banking-analysis firm; Nancy Ellen Futter ...... 21 Jennifer Raab ...... 22 Andrea Jung, No. 6 in 2011, was forced out as chief Peretsman, formerly No. 42 as managing director of Kirsten Gillibrand ...... 16 Emily Rafferty ...... 17 executive of Avon Products Inc. amid scandals and falling investment bank Allen & Co.; and Darcy Stacom, formerly MaryAnne Gilmartin ...... 16 Judith Rodin ...... 22 revenue. She was replaced by Sheri McCoy, who debuts No. 50 as a vice chairwoman of real estate firm CBRE Inc. Laurie Glimcher...... 22 Virginia Rometty ...... 13 on Crain’s 2013 list at No. 21. Finally, two women stepped down after exceptional Marcia Goldstein...... 18 Jane Rosenthal ...... 18 Gail Grimmett ...... 21 Diana Taylor...... 21 Janet Robinson, No. 16 in 2011, departed as the careers. Shelly Lazarus, No. 21 in 2011, retired as Bonnie Hammer...... 16 Mary Ann Tighe ...... 14 longtime chief executive of The New York Times Co. after chairwoman of advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather Patricia Harris ...... 14 Merryl Tisch ...... 17 clashing with other executives and ultimately the Worldwide, while Susan Wagner, formerly No. 20, retired Dottie Herman...... 20 Diane von Furstenberg ...... 17 Sulzberger clan, which controls the company. as a vice chairwoman at money manager BlackRock Inc. Deborah Winshel Arianna Huffington ...... 20 ...... 22 Sheila Birnbaum, the veteran partner at legal —THERESA AGOVINO Suri Kasirer ...... 22 Anna Wintour...... 16 Jacki Kelley ...... 20 Kathryn Wylde ...... 14

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holism.Ms.Quinn said she hoped it would help others facing similar is- You’ve come a long way, um, ladies sues. Some viewed the confessional as Continued from Page 13 the seventh consecutive year of no pieces about the temperaments of Media, a nonprofit that advocates a way for Ms. Quinn to soften her act of journalistic karma, a Politico growth. former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on behalf of female journalists. image. piece labeled the paper of record’s Sheryl Sandberg’s controversial and former Rep. Anthony Weiner, “Women aren’t setting the news “We are still uncomfortable with editor, Jill Abramson (No. 5), as book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Ms. Quinn’s rival in the Democrat- agenda,” said Ms. Pozner. women in power, so some women brusque and condescending. Each Will to Lead, explores the dearth of ic primary for mayor. with power feel like they have to story whipped up its own media female top executives. She claims But with women generating By men, about women show a vulnerable side,” said Mary firestorm, with pundits criticizing that the contradictory standards fewer headlines, experts say, articles Politico’s article about Ms. Ann Tighe,New York tristate CEO them as examples of the steady flow that lead women to be labeled “ag- that employ sexist language and im- Abramson was written by a man, of CBRE Inc. (No. 6). “Could you of news items that regularly portray gressive” while men are “ambitious” agery can be especially damaging. and the editor of the website is a imagine Jack Welch trying to powerful women as bitchy. keep women from pursuing loftier “If we had a level playing field, the man. The author, Dylan Byers, de- show a vulnerable side? Wouldn’t It’s not that pointing out a positions. stories wouldn’t be such a problem,” fended his article in a later piece in happen.” woman’s appearance, family life or She adds that women tend to be which he said he didn’t set out to Also missing from many articles shortcomings is inherently wrong; less likely to take risks and often sell write about Ms. Abramson’s gender are details about male executives’at- it’s that putting those qualities un- their own abilities short. ‘Why is there a and that he didn’t believe that it was tire. Yet references to heel heights der a microscope often detracts Less power leads to less press. the cause of his sources’ frustrations and hairstyles can be as common as from her professional accomplish- Only 27% of news articles in the tendency to with her. punctuation marks in stories about ments and can often lead to double U.S.focused on or quoted women in The story on Ms. Quinn was women. standards. Women executives are a Global Media Monitoring study portray women written by a man, yet having a fe- The May NPR feature that dis- still considered “bossy,” while their released in 2010. That represented male at the paper’s helm didn’t ap- cussed Ms.Gillibrand’s “girly voice” male counterparts continue to be la- no change from a similar report by as erratic and pear to soften it.Ms.Pozner said one also noted she is “petite, blonde and beled “confident.” the group in 2005. female editor can’t change an in- perky.” Some found the adjectives “Why is there a tendency in the Even when women assume posi- mean?’ grained culture overnight, and that gratuitous, especially because the media to portray women in leader- tions of power, they don’t always get the key is having many women in piece was discussing the senator’s ship as erratic and mean?” asked their due. None of the major various top roles. attempts to alter how the military Kathryn Wylde, president of the newsweeklies featured Nancy Pelosi Ms. Quinn said she doesn’t be- deals with sexual assaults. New York City Partnership (No. 8). on their covers during her tenure as lieve that she’s covered differently by An NPR spokesman said the “I think women can read it and say, the first female speaker of the U.S. men or women, adding that she pieces were aired before being fully ‘I don’t want to be out there [in the House of Representatives—and the said Jennifer Pozner, executive di- doesn’t think much about her press, edited and the offending words were limelight].’ ” most powerful woman in American rector at Women in Media and let alone examine it for hints of sex- removed from later versions. politics—according to an analysis News, a nonprofit advocacy group. ism. “I’m not going to frame the ar- “What does her voice have to do Underrepresentation by Ms. magazine. By contrast, Ms. Ms. Pozner believes that if there ticle and hang it over my desk,” she with anything?” asked Ms. Wylde. Women are already underrepre- Pelosi’s male successor, John were more female editors and exec- said. “But I can’t not talk to the “Why compare her to a girl?” sented in industry. Females held Boehner, was on the cover of five utives in the news business, there Times.” Ms. Wylde recalled that a re- 13.3% of executive positions in For- such publications before he even would be more stories on women— Ms. Quinn said all she can do is porter once referred to her as the tune 500 companies in 2012,a num- took over the post. and ones that don’t fall back on out- work harder to accomplish her goals “mayor’s cheerleader.” ber that has been flat for three years, Of course, men get negative dated assumptions. Only 23% of so she’ll garner more favorable “No one,” she said, “would have according to Catalyst, a nonprofit press, too. The Times’ piece on Ms. top-level management positions at press. She said she was happier with said that about a man.” dedicated to helping women in Quinn’s temper wasn’t its first ex- news organizations are filled by an article the Times ran in May that business. Meanwhile, women held amining a politician’s disposition. women, according to the Global discussed how she overcame her LISTEN to a discussion at CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts only 16.6% of board seats in 2012, For example, the paper ran critical Network for Women in the News struggles with bulimia and alco-

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NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 4/23/13. LLC formed in DE as agent upon whom process against York on: 05/02/2013. Jurisdiction: New on 10/01/02. Princ. office of LLC: 680 designated agent of LLC upon whom on 4/3/13. Office location: NY County. it may be served. The Post Office Jersey. Organized on: 10/18/2010. Fifth Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10019. process against it may be served and Princ. bus. addr.: 1350 Avenue of address to which the SSNY shall Office location: County of New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC shall mail process to: c/o CT Americas, 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10019. mail a copy of any process against Purpose: any and all lawful activities. upon whom process against it may Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, SSNY designated agent upon whom Fiechter & Salva LLP served upon Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) be served. SSNY shall mail process NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail him is C/O Fiechter & Salva LLP, 45 designated as agent of LLC upon whom to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), process may be served. DE addr. of copy of process against LLC to: c/o Rockefeller Plaza, (630 Fifth Avenue), process against it may be served. SSNY 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. LLC: c/o Corporation Trust Co., 1209 InCorp, One Commerce Plaza 99 Suite 2000, New York, New York shall mail a copy of process to: The DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Washington Ave., Ste. 805-A, Albany, 10111. Purpose of LLP: to engage in Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of NY 12210. DE address of LLC: c/o practice of law. Street address of Suite 5410, New York, NY 10118. No DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE InCorp, One Commerce Center 1201 Principal Business location is: address required to be maintained in Secy. of State of the State of DE, 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Orange St., #600, Wilmington, DE Fiechter & Salva LLP, 45 Rockefeller New Jersey. Authorized officer in its John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 19899. Cert of Formation filed DE Sec. Plaza, (630 Fifth Avenue), Suite 2000, jurisdiction is: New Jersey Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Notice of Formation of VP International of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE New York, New York 10111. Department of Treasury, 225 West Purpose: Any lawful activity. LLC (LLC). Articles of Organization 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. filed with the Secretary of State of Notice of Formation of TILLA REALTY, Notice of formation of MV ARTIST New York (SSNY) on 5/2/12. Office Notice of Formation of EDDIE’S DELI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Strider STUDIO, LLC filed with the Secy. of Location: New York County. SSNY & PIZZA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/13. Solutions, LLC. Arts of Org filed State of NY (SSNY) on 5/15/13. Office designated as agent of LLC upon Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Office location: NY County. SSNY with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) loc.: New York County. The principal whom process against it may be 05/02/13. Office location: NY County. designated as agent of LLC upon whom on 3/29/13. Office location: NY business loc. is 5-01 46th Rd., Long served. SSNY shall mail copy of SSNY designated as agent of LLC process against it may be served. County. SSNY designated as agent Island City, NY 11101. SSNY desig- process to: the LLC, 320 E. 90th upon whom process against it may SSNY shall mail process to Andrew upon whom process may be served nated as agent of LLC upon whom Street Apt. 2C, New York, NY 10128. be served. SSNY shall mail process Till, 400 E. 71st St., Unit 10D, NY, NY and shall mail a copy of any process process against it may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. to the LLC, 168 E. 116th St., NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful activity. against the LLC served upon him/her 10029. Purpose: Any lawful activity. United States SSNY shall mail copy of process to is: The LLC, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Corporation Agents, Inc 7014 c/o The Ruchelman Law Firm, 150 E. Notice of Formation of Sucre Bleu LLC. SOCIALLEET LLC. Arts of Org filed Notice of Formation of Prayan LLC. 13th Ave., Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 58th St., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10155. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State 11228. Purpose: Any lawful acts. Mgmt. shall be by one or more mem- of NY (SSNY) on 6/11/13. Office bers. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 2/27/13. Office location: NY County. (SSNY) on 11/08/2012. Principal location: NY County. SSNY designated SSNY designated as agent upon whom Office: 66 Madison Avenue, Suite 3i, as agent of LLC upon whom process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF My Fave process may be served and shall New York, NY, 10016, NY County. Notice of Qualification of RISE NYC against it may be served. SSNY shall Places LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy mail copy of process against LLC to: SSNY designated as process agent. 211 LLC. App. for Auth. filed with mail process to: c/o Persia Tatar, 64 of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/23/13. US Corp Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Ave, Process Service address: 66 Madison Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Morton St., #1B, NY, NY 10014. Office location: NY County. SSNY Bklyn, NY 11228. Principal business Avenue, Suite 3i, New York, NY, 5/1/13. Office location: NY County. Purpose: any lawful activity. designated as agent upon whom address: 602 W 139th St. Ste 53, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on process may be served and shall mail NY 10031. Purpose: any lawful act. copy of process against LLC to: US 3/14/12. SSNY designated as agent Notice is hereby given that a license, Corp Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste of LLC upon whom process against Notice of Formation of GDF NYC LLC. number (PENDING) for beer and wine 202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Principal busi- it may be served. SSNY shall mail Notice is hereby given that an on- Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State has been applied for by the under- ness address: 245 8th Ave, #241, NY, process to: 211 West Broadway, NY, premises liquor license for beer, of NY (SSNY) on 03/08/13. Office signed to sell beer and wine at retail NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act. NY 10013. DE address of LLC: 1675 wine and liquor has been applied for location: NY County. SSNY designated in a restaurant under the Alcoholic South State Street, Ste. B, Dover, DE by the undersigned to permit the as agent of LLC upon whom process Beverage Control Law at 421 Lenox 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail against it may be served. SSNY shall NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Avenue, New York, NY 10027 for Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. rates for on-premises consumption mail process to Gary S. Redish, Esq., Argonautikus LLC. Arts of Org filed on-premises consumption. NYC 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any at the Fogo de Chao located at 40 c/o Winne Banta et al., 21 Main St., with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on HARLEM GROUP LLC D/B/A TIO LUCA lawful act or activity. West 53rd Street, New York, NY Ste. 101, Hackensack, NJ 07601. 4/22/13. Office location: NY County. 10019 under the Alcoholic Beverage Purpose: Any lawful activity. SSNY designated as agent upon whom BMROBOT LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Mane Control Law. Fogo de Chao 53rd process may be served and shall mail Street, New York LLC. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/30/13. copy of process against LLC to: US Chick Hair LLC. Arts of Org filed with Notice of Formation of Civic Builders Office location: New York County. Corp Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on Sub-CDE II, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed SSNY is designated as agent upon 202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Principal busi- 1/22/13. Office location: NY County. Notice of formation of Simit & Smith with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on whom process against the LLC may be ness address: 245 8th Ave, #241, NY SSNY designated as agent upon whom 100 William Street LLC. Arts of Org 4/30/13. Office location: NY County. served. SSNY shall mail process to: NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act. process may be served and shall mail filed with Secretary of State of NY SSNY designated as agent of LLC Philippe Berdugo, 106 Central Park copy of process against LLC to: US (SSNY) on 5/21/13. Office location; NY upon whom process against it may S, NY, NY 10019. General Purposes Corp Agents, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, County. SSNY designated as agent be served. SSNY shall mail process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Bklyn, NY 11228. Principal business upon whom process may be served CERAM-LINER LLC. Arts of Org filed to: Civic Builders, Inc., 304 Hudson NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Denny’s address: 75 E 116th St., #3N, NY, NY and shall mail copy of process against St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10029. Purpose: any lawful act. LLC to principal business address: 420 Basement NYC LLC. Arts of Org filed 4/19/13. Office location: NY County. any lawful activities. with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on Lexington Ave, 18th Fl., Ste 1830, SSNY designated as agent upon whom NY, NY 10170. Purpose: Any lawful. 3/20/13. Office location: NY County. process may be served and shall Notice of Qualification of NexGen CITY MEDICAL OF TRIBECA, PLLC, SSNY designated as agent upon whom mail copy of process against LLC to: Packaging, LLC. Authority filed with a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed process may be served and shall 7014 13TH AVE, STE 202, BKLYN, NY NY Dept. of State on 5/17/13. Office EAT FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, LLC, a with the SSNY on 4/25/13. Office mail copy of process against LLC to: 11228. Principal business address: location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed location: New York. SSNY is designated 1710 First Ave. #121, NY, NY 10128. 55 E 73RD ST, STE #GF, NY, NY 718-B State St., Santa Barbara, CA with the SSNY on 4/16/13. Office as agent upon whom process against Principal business address: 3845 10021. Purpose: any lawful act. 93101. LLC formed in DE on 5/24/06. location: New York County. SSNY the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall Cazador St, Los Angeles, CA 90065. NY Sec. of State designated agent of is designated as agent upon whom mail process to: Margaret Johnson, LLC upon whom process against it process against the LLC may be Notice of Formation of Do The Tuck, Esq., 336 E. 86th St., NY, NY 10028. Notice of Formation of AfreSHeet LLC. may be served and shall mail process served. SSNY shall mail process to: LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. Purpose: Medicine. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State to: Steven J. Thayer, Handler Thayer, The LLC, 242 E. 60th St., Ste. 2R, of State on 4/23/13. Office location: of NY (SSNY) on 06/14/13. Office LLP, 191 N. Wacker Dr., Ste. 2300, NY, NY 10022. General Purposes. NY County. Sec. of State designated Notice of formation of BOBBIEPINZ, location: NY County. Princ. office of Chicago, IL 60606. DE addr. of LLC: agent of LLC upon whom process LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y LLC: 666 Greenwich St., PH 22, NY, NY 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE against it may be served and shall Notice of Formation of DIGITAL of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/14/2013. 10014. SSNY designated as agent of 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE mail process to: 1185 Park Ave., Apt. THERAPY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Office location, County of New York. LLC upon whom process against it may Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 1F, NY, NY 10128, principal business Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on SSNY has been designated as agent be served. SSNY shall mail process 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. address. Purpose: any lawful activity. 05/30/13. Office location: NY County. of the LLC upon whom process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. SSNY designated as agent of LLC Notice of Qualification of ARCODA against it may be served. SSNY shall office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. upon whom process against it may be mail process to: The LLC, 333 East Notice of Qualification of LUCROR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC. served. SSNY shall mail process to the ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY 14th Street, Unit 18A, NY NY 10003. LLC, 159 E. 33rd St., Apt. 1, NY, NY Purpose: any lawful act. GROWTH AND INCOME GP, LLC. (SSNY) on 05/28/13. Office location: 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY NY County. LLC formed in Delaware Want To Get Your (SSNY) on 05/20/13. Office location: (DE) on 08/10/07. Princ. office of LLC: Notice of Qualification of CITI NMTC NY County. LLC formed in Delaware 25 W. 45th St., Ste. 203, NY, NY 10036. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED SUBSIDIARY CDE XXII, LLC. Authority Company In Front Of (DE) on 05/15/13. Princ. office of LLC: SSNY designated as agent of LLC LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Down filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 10 Barclay St., #5B, NY, NY 10007. upon whom process against it may Dog Alimentari, LLC. Articles of on 05/16/13. Office location: NY New York City’s SSNY designated as agent of LLC be served. SSNY shall mail process Organization were filed with the County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) upon whom process against it may be to c/o TR Winston, Inc., 25 W. 45th Secretary of State of New York on 05/07/13. Princ. office of LLC: 390 Influential Business served. SSNY shall mail process to St., Fl. 2, Ste. B, NY, NY 10036. DE (SSNY) on May 15, 2013. Office Greenwich St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10013. the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. addr. of LLC: Corporation Service location: New York County. SSNY SSNY designated as agent of LLC Professionals? The regd. agent of the company upon Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, has been designated as agent of the upon whom process against it may be whom and at which process against Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. LLC upon whom process against it served. SSNY shall mail process to Contact Joanne Barbieri the company can be served is filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, may be served. SSNY shall mail a c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 Richard J. Roy, 10 Barclay St., #5B, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend copy of process to the LLC, Down State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. at 212-210-0189 NY, NY 10007. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dog Alimentari, LLC, at the LLC’s DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 for classified Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, Dover, DE 19901. As amended by principal business address at 430 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with Cert. of Correction filed with SSNY West Broadway, #2B, New York, New DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with advertising opportunities. Secy. of State of the State of DE, on 05/30/13, addr. of process of LLC York 10012. Purpose: For any lawful Secy. of State of DE, P.O. Box 898, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. is 25 W. 45th St., Ste. 203, NY, NY purpose. There is no predetermined Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real Purpose: Any lawful activity. 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity. dissolution date. estate investment and development.

June 24, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 25 Veteran lawyers blast city plan on legal aid

yank work from these courthouse Mr.Banks.“This is one of those sit- Attorneys for fixtures: An April New York Times JUDGMENT DAY: Facing a loss uations in which it’s both more the indigent say exposé chronicled staggering delays of funding are defense lawyers cost-effective and a higher-quality in Bronx criminal cases, and a mas- (clockwise from left) Michael service.” Marinaccio, Carlos Gonzalez, mayor’s proposal sive probe of potentially wrongful Conway Martindale, Laurie A Bloomberg spokesman com- convictions is underway in Brook- Rosen and Corey Sokoler. mented that 18-B attorneys are like- will phase them out lyn.But the Bloomberg administra- wise paid by the city. (They are also tion says the change will improve vetted by local bar associations.) BY CHRIS BRAGG the quality of representation while “The city itself is not a party in saving about $6 million annually. the criminal cases these attorneys On a recent Monday morning, the The 18-B work is not lucrative by handle,” the spokesman said. “Our Bronx criminal court system was legal standards, paying $75 an hour, interest is in ensuring that high- living up to its sorry reputation: about an eighth of what some of the quality legal representation is avail- Some 300 people stood in the rain, attorneys charge privately retained able to all indigent defendants.” trying to get through security and clients. The lawyers are not reim- into the Bronx County Hall of Jus- bursed for basic overhead costs and Complex cases tice. Inside, potential jurors en- receive fees only when cases are fin- In a May budget hearing held by dured a 20-minute wait for jam- ished. Some do it as a public service the City Council, Mr. Bloomberg’s packed elevators. or as a side job,while others need the chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, A group of lawyers, however, business to stay afloat. argued that shifting cases from seemed entirely at ease amid the “I’m 64 years old, and when I 18-B lawyers was not about saving chaos, darting to hearings through went to college in the ’60s,there was money, but about improving indi- the marble halls and bantering with a different perspective on defending gent defense. He said institutional judges and bailiffs. They are on the rights of the defenseless,” said providers secure pleas on nonfelony what’s known as the 18-B panel: Joseph DeFelice, president of the charges in 80% of cases, versus 61% veteran attorneys who for decades Queens County Bar Association. “I for 18-B attorneys—whose cases have represented the indigent in do it because I just love doing it.” take 47% longer to conclude. ( Just

multidefendant felony cases across buck ennis 3% of 18-B lawyers’cases and 1% of New York City. Changing course institutional providers’ cases go to Yet this breed of courthouse vet- Historically, New York felony Bronx defense attorney. “Now the trial.) eran may soon become a rare cases with multiple defendants have The program city wants to get to pick the defense “Outcomes are what matter to species. Mayor Michael Bloom- been ceded by nonprofit legal- attorneys, too. It all crosses the line people who have been accused of berg’s budget, which the City services providers because it would ‘crosses the in the balance between the executive crimes,” Mr. Feinblatt testified. Council was expected to tweak and be a conflict of interest for one to and judicial branches.” But the 18-B lawyers say they adopt in late June,shifts $14 million represent multiple clients in a case. line,’ one Nonsense,said Steven Banks,at- handle more complex cases that nat- away from the 18-B panel toward In 2010, however, the Bloomberg torney in chief at Legal Aid. A 2009 urally take longer and are harder to legal-services nonprofits. At least administration changed course, and attorney said state law limits the caseload an at- plea down. some of the work will likely go to the the decision was upheld following a torney can carry,he noted,and more At the hearing,Queens Council- Legal Aid Society, which generally lengthy court battle.It enables mon- than 40% of his organization’s woman Elizabeth Crowley noted handles less complicated cases. ey in the new budget to go to the lawyers have more than a decade of that under the city’s plan, only 50% The 18-B felony lawyers say that nonprofits. experience. City funding does not of attorneys would have to be without the funding, their mom- The 18-B attorneys want the make Legal Aid subservient to City “felony certified,” while all 18-B and-pop firms can’t continue as they City Council to block the plan, but for complex,drawn-out cases.Some Hall, he said, noting that his non- felony lawyers have that credential. have. “From a pure business per- usually the mayor accommodates 18-B lawyers suspect the Bloom- profit has brought high-profile cas- “If somebody is charged with a spective, this is a real issue,” said only typical council priorities such berg administration is motivated by es against the city, including on crime,they are entitled to fair repre- Sam Braverman, a veteran Bronx as libraries and firehouses. a desire to deal with nonprofits that stop-and-frisk. sentation under the Constitution,” defense attorney. The attorneys say nonprofits’ rely on city contracts. “The city al- “We have investigators, social Ms. Crowley told Mr. Feinblatt. “I Local bar associations oppose lawyers, with less experience and ready hires the police and the pros- workers, paralegals and all kinds of don’t believe that your [proposal] the move, calling it an odd time to heavier workloads, are not as suited ecutors,” said Corey Sokoler, a other resources they don’t,” said guarantees that.” Ⅲ

TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD, CALL 1-800-444-6007 OR VISIT CRAINSNEWYORK.COM PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES Notice of formation of HCNY Notice of Qualification of Resonance NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED NOTICE OF FORMATION of JB and NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Scout Associates LLC filed with the Secy. Capital Partners LLC. Authority filed LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 1496 VL LLC. Article of Organization filed Distributors LLC. Authority filed with of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/13. with NY Dept. of State on 5/15/13. OCEAN LLC. Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on Office loc.: New York County. The Office location: NY County. LLC formed were filed with the Secretary of State on 03/22/13. Office location: NY 5/15/13. Office location: NY County. principal business loc. is 250 W. in DE on 4/15/13. NY Sec. of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/27/10. County. SSNY has been designated LLC formed in MO on 5/26/09. SSNY 43rd St., New York, NY 10036. designated agent of LLC upon whom Office location: New York County. SSNY as agent upon whom process against has been designated as an agent SSNY designated as agent of LLC process against it may be served and has been designated as agent of the it may be served. The address to upon whom process may be served upon whom process against it may shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation which the SSNY shall mail a copy of and shall mail copy of process be served. SSNY shall mail copy of System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, LLC upon whom process against it any process against the LLC served against LLC to principal business process to c/o GF Management, regd. agent upon whom process may may be served. SSNY shall mail a upon him is C/O the LLC, 7014 13th address: 1010 Grand Blvd., Kansas LLC, 435 Devon Park Dr., 500 Bldg., be served. DE address of LLC: 1209 copy of process to the LLC, c/o Kyle Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn NY City, MO 64106. Cert of LLC filed Wayne, PA 19087. Mgmt. shall be Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Lavender, 36-15 84th Street, 2H, 11228. Purpose of LLC: to engage with Secretary of State of MO located: by one or more members. Purpose: Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of Jackson Heights, New York 11372. in any lawful act or activity. Principal 600 W Main St, Jefferson City, MO Any lawful activity. State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE Purpose: For any lawful purpose. Business location is: 219 E 81st 65101. Purpose: any lawful act. 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Street Apt 1-H, New York NY 10028. Notice of Qualification of VRPG Notice of Qualification of K.G. IM Notice of Qualification of ABM Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with NY NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Hwu Law Management LLC. App. for Auth. filed NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Inwood Janitorial Services - Southeast, LLC. Dept. of State on 6/12/13. Office Firm PLLC. Articles of Organization with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Family Guidance and Psychological Authority filed with NY Dept. of State location: NY County. LLC formed in DE filed with the Secretary of State of NY 6/6/13. Office location: NY County. Services, PLLC. Articles of Organization on 5/13/13. Office location: NY County. on 5/3/13. NY Sec. of State designated (SSNY) on 03/07/2013. Office location: LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on filed with the Secretary of State of NY LLC formed in CA on 7/1/08. NY Sec. agent of LLC upon whom process New York County. SSNY has been 5/22/13. SSNY designated as agent (SSNY) on 4/11/13. Office location: of State designated agent of LLC against it may be served and shall designated as agent upon whom of LLC upon whom process against New York County. SSNY has been upon whom process against it may mail process to: Duane Morris, LLP, process against it may be served. The it may be served. SSNY shall mail designated as agent upon whom be served and shall mail process to: 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10028, Attn: Post Office address to which the SSNY process to: c/o Davis & Gilbert LLP, process against it may be served. The c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Michael D. Schwamm, Esq. DE addr. shall mail a copy of any process 1740 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. DE Post Office address to which the SSNY Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust against the served upon him/her is: address of LLC: c/o United Corporate shall mail a copy of any process upon whom process may be served. Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, 11 Broadway, Suite 615, New York, Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. against the PLLC served upon him/her Principal office addr.: 1111 Fannin, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with NY 10004. The principal business C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. is: 5030 Broadway, Suite 617, New York, Ste. 1500, Houston, TX 77002. Cert. DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., address of the LLC is: 11 Broadway, filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 NY 10034. The principal business of Org. filed with CA Sec. of State, Duke of York St., Dover, DE 19901. Suite 615, New York, NY 10004. Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. address of the PLLC is: 5030 Broadway, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA Purpose: all lawful purposes. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Purpose: any lawful activity. Suite 617, New York, NY 10034. 95814. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

26 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 IN THE BOROUGHS BROOKLYN

which has more than 200 “likes.” FROM When asked what would happen if the new owner hesitates to coop- Fourth Avenue safety plan AROUND erate, Ms. Wong said, “We’re work- THE CITY ing step by step right now.” Continued from Page 3 his Bay Ridge —shannon mcmahon halve to two the number of traffic home to his Park lanes along Fourth Avenue in the 15 Slope office every QUEENS blocks between 86th Street and Ov- day,insists that he’d BRONX ington Avenue.The 86th Street in- rather pay extra tax Show of support tersection will also gain an upgrad- dollars to install Concern has been mounting over ‘Classy’ HUB-bub ed crosswalk, with a traffic island, cameras to catch the fate of the ornate, 97-year-old Since 2008, 20 new buildings with and fences. Some bus stops along speeding drivers Ridgewood Theater in Queens ever 3,700 apartments have gone up the strip will also be moved. than have to deal since it closed in 2008. What was around the South Bronx retail strip Many are hailing the changes, with a narrowed once the nation’s oldest continuous- known as the HUB,bringing an army especially given that the area in re- Fourth Avenue. ly operating movie theater was of higher-income residents. Now all cent years has been attracting an in- “There might be bought by Associated Supermarkets they need is someplace to shop. creasing number of families with other ways to ad- in 2010. After the building’s façade “We have to bring in more ten- young children. “This has been a dress these things was landmarked later that same year, ants and more classy tenants,” said long time in coming,” said Maureen more effectively all went quiet again. Phillip Morrow, president of Landers, a public-relations execu- than changing the Concerned about the theater’s on- SoBRO, a local development group. tive and traffic,” he said. FOURTH AVENUE’S four lanes would be cut by two for 15 blocks. going decline,architect Mercy Wong The reason is that the newcomers mother of Others suggest in October 2012 co-founded We have a median household income of two, who that the city should Love Ridgewood Theater with her $35,000—more than 50% above that 38 was struck hire more traffic cops to police both believes the plan will have its great- neighbor, psychotherapist Bridgette of most longtime residents. Faced PEDESTRIANS KILLED by a car on motorists and jaywalkers, or add est impact at the hyper-busy 86th Vidunas. They began lobbying the with the HUB’s present mix of fast- or severely injured, Fourth Av- speed bumps and stagger the traffic Street intersection, a major shop- Myrtle Avenue Business Improve- food spots and electronics, clothing 2007-2011 enue in lights to slow things down a bit. ping hub and the place where buses ment District, Community Board 5 and discount stores, they are doing 2009,an ac- City officials point out that their from Brooklyn and Staten Island and elected officials to get involved. much of their shopping and dining in cident that proposal is the result of a lengthy converge with the R train.Ms.Beck- “I’ve lived here five Manhattan, according 63% left her with process. “Safety is DOT’s top prior- years. Finally I was to a recent survey of PERCENTAGE of man is hopeful that the changes can drivers who speed a fractured ity, and this project reflects input by be implemented by next spring. like, ‘I’m going to do residents by retail during off-peak hours elbow. “Bay the local community to make a well- something about it,’ ” consultancy JGSC Ridge is a used corridor safer for everyone,”said School traffic Ms. Wong said. Group. Asked what dynamic, a DOT spokesman, noting that the That would be good news for Now,as a member of they’d most like to see 260 wonderful project will enhance safety whether Alice Mulligan, a 30-year Bay Community Board 5, in the area, the No. 1 MEMBERSHIP of Bay place to live, one is on foot, biking or driving. Ridge resident who has been execu- Ms. Wong and We pick was an Olive Ridge Advocates Keeping Everyone Safe but the only In fact, the city has been study- tive director of Our Saviour’s Love Ridgewood The- Garden restaurant, Facebook group thing of ing Fourth Avenue, a crucial artery Lutheran Preschool, on the corner ater are gearing up for with Applebee’s and concern for in a series of neighborhoods from of Fourth Avenue and 80th Street, their next push. She ex- mercy wong Red Lobster also me is the Park Slope to Sunset Park and into for more than two decades. She said pects Associated to ink A LOCAL GROUP hopes to save ranking high. driving—it’s so reckless.” Bay Ridge, for four years. After that many of her students and those a deal to sell the theater parts of the Ridgewood Theater To reverse that completing a redesign in Sunset at other schools are driven to class by the end of June, like- for community use. flow of shoppers’ dol- In isolation Park last year, the DOT turned its every day because the neighborhood ly for a residential devel- lars, SoBRO and the Predictably, many of the area’s attention to Bay Ridge. is so spread out. opment. When all is fi- HUB Third Avenue motorists beg to differ.Because of its Earlier this year, the agency held She also noted that all those par- nalized, she hopes to persuade the BID held a meeting in June to map a isolation at the southern tip of three workshops with residents, and ents trying to get to the same place new owner to turn areas of the build- plan to attract upscale retailers and Brooklyn, and its relative lack of launched an interactive computer at the same time often create a dan- ing into much-needed creative com- eateries to the area, which centers on mass-transit connections,Bay Ridge program that generated 80 com- gerous situation, a snarl of traffic as munity spaces for art and music. Third Avenue and East 149th Street. has an unusually high number of ments on specific local transit sites. they jostle to drop off and later pick To help mobilize support, she re- “More nighttime activities would people who get around by car. For Meanwhile,Josephine Beckman, up their kids. “Every day it’s the cently started a petition on Change generate traffic and induce stores to many of them, the Fourth Avenue district manager of Community honking of the horns, the double- .org that already has garnered 91 sig- stay open later,” said Mr. Morrow. corridor is an essential route. Board 10, spent most of May dis- parked cars—it’s this chaotic natures. Meanwhile, there is the We “Around here, everything closes up Scott Klein, a real estate broker tributing mailings about the re- scene,”she said.“I’m glad that some Love Ridgewood Theater website, around 7, 7:30.” who spends 18 minutes driving from design to 5,000 local residents. She action is being taken.” Ⅲ not to mention its Facebook page, —irina ivanova DIGITAL NY

MakerBot’s chief executive said in headway.3D Systems has been on its an interview. “The whole thing own acquisition spree in recent years, starts to sparkle when you see the and launched a desktop printer in New dimension in 3-D biz pieces together.” 2012 that is now carried by Staples. MakerBot, which has 275 em- “The two heavyweights are basi- Midwest printing giant privately held MakerBot’s stock. Revenue came to $11.5 million in ployees, will be run as a stand-alone cally extending their reach,” said Based on Stratasys’ closing stock the first quarter of 2013, after total- subsidiary and retain its brand and Mr. Caffrey, who wonders if all the Stratasys buys geeky price of $84.60 on June 19, the deal ing $15.7 million in all of 2012. its Brooklyn base.The company re- consolidation will stifle innovation had an initial value of $403 million. “We’ve reached a tipping point cently moved production, ware- in what is still a fairly small industry. MakerBot in Brooklyn A performance-based payout could with the popularity of this technol- housing and shipping into a 55,000- Wohlers Associates estimates the add $201 million by the end of 2014. ogy,” said Tim Caffrey, an associate square-foot facility in Sunset Park, entire 3-D printing industry totaled BY MATTHEW FLAMM It’s an extraordinary return for a consultant with Wohlers Associ- and houses its engineers and sales just $2.2 billion globally in 2012, up tiny company,even one that’s grow- ates, which tracks the 3-D printing staff in MetroTech Center. 28% from the prior year. MakerBot, the Brooklyn startup that ing quickly. Co-founded in 2009 by industry. “The investment commu- The merger, which is the second Mr. Caffrey does see benefits for became the leader in affordable desk- art teacher turned do-it-yourselfer nity has turned around and looked in less than a year for Stratasys, also MakerBot.“Being owned by Strata- top 3-D printers, agreed last week to Bre Pettis, MakerBot has raised just at it, and a lot of money has poured ensures that both companies keep sys will help them make a better ma- be acquired by industrial 3-D print- $13 million in funding,according to into the stocks of these companies.” their competitive edge as the indus- chine,” he said, as Stratasys has deep ing giant Stratasys.The deal will keep Fortune. Backers include the Investors seemed to agree: try consolidates. In December, roots in printing technology. Stratasys competitive with archrival Foundry Group, Manhattan-based Stratasys’ stock rose as much as 4% Stratasys, based in Eden Prairie, For Stratasys, the merger allows 3D Systems while yielding nice re- RRE Ventures and Bezos Expedi- during trading the day after the an- Minn., acquired Rehovot, Israel- the company to be a one-stop shop. turns for MakerBot’s investors. tions, which manages Amazon nouncement. It closed Friday at based Objet, another big player in CEO David Reis said Stratasys As part of what is being de- founder Jeff Bezos’ investments. $82.15, up 594% from a year ago. the industrial 3-D printing market. customers like NASA and Lockheed scribed as a merger,Stratasys will is- MakerBot has sold only 22,000 Mr. Pettis said the merger will That deal helped Stratasys bulk Martin have been buying MakerBot sue approximately 4.76 million printers since its launch, half of help his company grow even faster. up against Rock Hill,S.C.-based 3D printers. “Those guys are buying shares and exchange them for all of them in the past nine months, fol- “We get to explore the future of per- Systems, but didn’t give it entry into from us very heavy-duty printers for lowing the debut of its Replicator 2 sonal manufacturing with more re- the fast-growing market for low-cost other applications.If you want to be- WATCH a related video at printer and the opening of its store sources, and get access to very deep desktop 3-D printers—an area come a full-offering supplier, you CrainsNewYork.com/video on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. [intellectual property] resources,” where Stratasys has tried to make need to have the full range.” Ⅲ

June 24, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 27 ment action, and Mr. Greenblatt staffers were stealing notes that it has faced relatively few merchandise, he had Background checks private suits over the years. mastered the art of “Our litigation-incidence rate is administering lie- Continued from Page 3 reports are just devastating,” said 0.00005%—[which amounts to] detector tests by the background information that is Michelle Drake, a Minneapolis at- half a dozen suits a year,” he said. time he was 19. simply incorrect. torney who represents a satellite-TV “Sometimes you get inaccurate in- Business was quiet One example: Earlier this year, a contractor who has sued Sterling for formation from courthouses.It hap- during Sterling’s first registered nurse in Indiana named producing a background check on pens. When we find [a criminal 25 years, but the 9/11 Tara Reed Chernecke was denied a him that revealed 20-year-old ar- record],we notify the applicant,and attacks made back- $30-an-hour job that she’d been of- rests and citations that had been dis- they have time to disprove it. But ground checks a pri- fered by hospital operator Norton missed or never resulted in charges. sometimes employers don’t hold the ority for many em- Healthcare. The rejection came af- Sterling has denied the allegations. job that long, and we can’t force our ployers. The rise of ter Sterling added information on In response to a growing number customers to hire the individual.” Google, Match.com her background report for someone of complaints against several back- and LinkedIn has also else, a woman whose middle name ground-check companies, federal Mastering the lie detector helped make people was Tara and who had been convict- authorities are taking a closer look at He added that the market and accustomed to com- BILLY GREENBLATT has seen ed of possessing a controlled sub- the business. On June 11, the Equal the firm’s clients effectively police piling data about his profits (and financial district stance. Ms. Chernecke filed a law- Employment Opportunity Com- the company’s work. Still, perform- others. views) soar as more companies suit against Sterling last month,and mission filed a lawsuit against Dol- ing checks is “not a perfect science,” In 2003 and in dig for dirt on employees. the case is pending.She could not be he said. “You want it guaranteed? lar General, alleging the retailer let 2010, Sterling raised buck ennis reached for comment. go an applicant after a report from a Nothing is guaranteed.” millions from private- background-check company erro- Critics don’t buy that argument. equity firms and invested heavily in company called Imperative Infor- Inaccurate reports neously showed a criminal history. “Accuracy can be purchased for a technology, transforming what had mation Group. “There’s no substi- Similarly, two years ago, Bran- Locally, the City Council and price,” Ms. Drake said. “Mistakes been a cottage industry, in which tute for going into the courthouse don Williams was denied a state Legislature have looked to lim- are happening because these for- people sifted courthouse files by and verifying information yourself.” $35,000-a-year job as a public- it how employers can use credit profit companies don’t want to hand or worked the phones. Mr. Greenblatt disagrees. safety officer at the Co-op City checks in hiring decisions, though spend what it takes to produce an “We can [turn up] 11% more “Whenever you use a human be- housing complex in the Bronx after lawmakers have not actively sought accurate report.” convictions than our competitors,” ing, you have more risk than if you a background search by Sterling to curb the use of criminal checks. It isn’t clear how profitable Ster- Mr. Greenblatt said. automate,” he said. “We care more showed that he had been arrested for In one of the biggest criminal- ling is, but a hint can be found from Yet some say that automation is than anyone in the world about get- marijuana possession and drunken background-check cases, a compa- a rival called ChoicePoint. In 2007, the industry’s biggest problem ting information right.” driving, and that he had served a ny called HireRight Solutions last its last year as a stand-alone compa- because the databases that As for the lawsuits against Ster- year in prison after pleading guilty year paid a $2.6 million penalty af- ny, ChoicePoint reported $253 mil- background-check companies rely ling, Mr. Greenblatt insists that “in to “second-degree reckless endan- ter the Federal Trade Commission lion in employee-screening revenue on are frequently incomplete. In all of them, we’ve done nothing germent/hate crime.” found that in “numerous instances” and an 18% operating margin.That 2010, state court databases in Cali- wrong.” He said his company typi- Mr. Williams argued he had it had incorrectly listed criminal translates to $46 million in annual fornia, Colorado, Florida and Ohio cally settles matters out of court to never been arrested, much less in- convictions. profits. had final disposition records in few- avoid costly legal battles and that the carcerated, and Sterling settled the The criminal-background- Mr. Greenblatt, 55, grew up on er than 60% of arrests, according to settlement amounts aren’t large. lawsuit for an undisclosed sum. Ul- check business “is an area we are Long Island and started Sterling in a Justice Department study. But he softened his tone when timately,Mr.Williams took a lower- concerned about, an area of priority 1975 while he was a student at the “The big background-check asked how Tara Reed Chernecke paying job at Co-op City. He for us,” FTC attorney Tiffany University of Maryland. As the son guys buy the data in bulk, run their could be mistaken for someone with couldn’t be reached, and his lawyer George said. of the president of a mystery- algorithms, and that’s how you get only a vaguely similar name. didn’t return calls. Be that as it may, Sterling has shopper company,whose employees mistakes,” said Mike Coffey, who “If we did the wrong thing,” he “The consequences of inaccurate never been subject to any govern- posed as store customers to check if runs a small background-check said, “we’ll make it right.” Ⅲ

tailer Ashley Stewart. smile,” said Mr. Davidowitz. “They Though Istithmar retained a mi- compete very poorly with everybody Loehmann’s survives nority stake in Loehmann’s, the because they don’t offer uniqueness.” CORO LEADERS chain is now primarily owned by Mr.Newman is aiming to change THE CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP Continued from Page 3 whether Loehmann’s owner, Istith- Whippoorwill Associates, a White that. He’s spending about $12 mil- CENTER is seeking applicants middle-aged devotees of the com- mar World, the investment arm of Plains-based hedge fund that had a lion on renovations. The 30,000- for its Leadership New York pany’s couture-filled Back Room holding company Dubai World, minority stake in Loehmann’s be- square-foot Chelsea location was re- Program. The deadline for happy, he’s expanding the 40-unit would liquidate the discounter. As fore its bankruptcy.The 23-year-old cently upgraded to include trend applying is July 19. chain’s personal-shopping program Loehmann’s credit rating fell, it firm, run by Shelley Greenhaus and shops where mannequins model the From business leaders and and improving customer service eventually filed for Chapter 11 known as being an opportunistic outfits of the season. Merchandise politicians to entrepreneurs and among its 1,700 employees. bankruptcy protection in 2010, its buyer of turnaround situations, racks now group various designers neighborhood activists, Coro “We were not customer-friend- second in a dozen years. owned Barneys back in its mid- together by fashion, rather than by Leadership New York has—for 25 ly,” said Mr. Newman, who said the 2000s heyday.Whippoorwill did not name, to give customers style direc- Restructuring plan years—equipped thousands of the company generates about $300 mil- return calls requesting comment. tion. In addition, contemporary de- city’s top talent with the resources lion in annual sales. “We were like, “It was a cash-flow issue,” said Some insiders think Loehmann’s signers such as BCBG and Rebel Yell they need to understand how ‘Come get your cheap clothes and Andy Jassin, who runs the retail- is now positioned to survive, since a were moved to the ground level to leadership decisions are made, run.’ Now it’s ‘Come, shop us, stay a focused Jassin Consulting Group. lot of the competition has been entice shoppers from the street. how complex public policies are while, and if you want to sit down, “They expanded to too many loca- eliminated. “There’s a reason in the “We consider ourselves the spe- shaped and how to influence here’s a chair.’ ” tions and couldn’t support them marketplace for Loehmann’s to ex- cialty of off-price,” said Mr. New- Three years ago, Loehmann’s with consumer traffic.” ist,” said Jack Hendler, chief execu- man. “We want to speak what our meaningful change. was an obvious candidate for extinc- The company restructured by tive of advisory firm Avalon Net customer wants to hear.” Approximately 50 tion. Sales at the company’s fleet of closing 20 stores and brought in Worth.“There’s no one really left to successful midcareer 60 stores declined steeply as Mr. Newman, an industry veteran eat up smaller quantities of high- Personal shoppers professionals from the private, recession-weary consumers chose known for gigs at Brooks Brothers end designer product—everything He’s also expanding the personal- public and nonprofit sectors new places to shop. and New York & Co., and less so for at T.J. Maxx or Burlington is made shopper program, which is now in are selected to participate Industry insiders also worried his more recent post at plus-size re- specifically for [those stores].” eight stores. To deal with increased each year. Selected participants Still,Loehmann’s success is not a demand, the Chelsea flagship will reflect the demographics of New fait accompli. With stores in 11 soon offer a second shopper,who will York City and should be ready to states, including two in Manhattan, call preferred clients about special explore a training method the company’s real estate is too deals and new arrivals. practiced among business widespread to manage,said Howard Last fall, Loehmann’s hosted its executives, government officials Davidowitz, chairman of David- first Grab the Gown event to attract and leaders of nonprofits to move owitz & Associates, a retail consult- brides eager for a bargain. Modeled decisions forward that involve ing firm. He noted that a smaller after now-defunct Filene’s celebrat- large groups and multiple company like Loehmann’s doesn’t ed Running of the Brides, the event interests. have the critical mass to compete was successful enough to expand Leadership New York meets with growing outlets Nordstrom online and will be repeated this fall. from September through May. To Rack and Saks’ Off 5th. Rack re- “We did have lines around the receive more information and the cently announced its plans to have block,and it was torrential rain,”said Ⅲ full application, visit 230 locations by 2016—up from its Mr. Newman. “We’ll do it again.” www.coronewyork.org or call current count of 127. LISTEN to a discussion at (212) 248-2935, ext. 232. newscom “Loehmann’s is going to have to CHELSEA FLAGSHIP: The Manhattan location will soon boast two personal shoppers. provide something more than their CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts

28 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 HELLUVA TOWN INSIDE Source Lunch Toll Buying makeup Brothers make their mark for a cause in NYC PAGE 30 The Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Out and About Fund, launched in September 2012, has already donated A Midsummer Night $200,000 to Memorial Sloan- Swing returns PAGE 31 Kettering Cancer Center to support research for a disease that is the fifth-leading cause of cancer death among women. The gift ranks as the largest Something green The bride cuts the cake—and her carbon footprint—as sustainable weddings gain in popularity donation to Sloan-Kettering for ovarian cancer research to date. “We know these are humble beginnings, but it shows a brighter future toward battling ovarian cancer,” said Claudia Poccia, chief executive of makeup brand Laura Mercier’s parent company, Gurwitch Products. Ms. Poccia lost her younger sister to the disease in 2011 and nearly a year later launched the fund in partnership with company founder Laura Mercier, whose best friend also battled ovarian cancer for years. All proceeds from the sales of Laura Mercier Bonne Mine Crème Colour Palette go toward the fund. Donations can also be made at www.lmocf.com. In September, in honor of Ovarian Cancer Awareness month, the brand will launch two additional products, Kiss of Hope lip glacé and Matte Radiance Healthy Glow powder. Good granola

Purely Elizabeth was barely a Daily Candy company when a DAN KARTZMAN email blast featuring its Perfect AND LAUREN Pancake mix put it on the map. EHRHART are Three years later, revenue is using as many expected to reach $2 million to local vendors as $3 million, and the company has possible for their expanded into cookie mixes and New Hampshire four granola varieties, two of wedding. which are finalists for the Specialty Food Association’s prestigious Sofi Awards. These days, Purely Elizabeth’s goods are available in groceries along the East Coast, including Fairway,Wegmans and Dean & DeLuca. In August, the brand goes nationwide at Whole Foods, a milestone that founder Elizabeth

Stein (below) said is “the second- buck ennis best moment” in the company’s life, after the Daily Candy email. Nearly BY LAURA LORENZETTI 300 orders flooded her inbox after the feature, even though she had ingredients on hand for only 20 lans are well underway for New Yorker Lauren Ehrhart’s nuptials on Sept. 28. But CLEAN CASH mixes. It was the spark that set the instead of cruising popular wedding-dress websites such as David’s Bridal, she’s company in motion. seeking out local dressmakers on Etsy. ¶ “My biggest and foremost concern is “It was so exciting,” said Ms. Stein. “From that moment, I that everything I’m using and that’s on my registry is made in the U.S.A.,” said + realized there Ms. Ehrhart, who wants her wedding to have a minimal carbon footprint. ¶ 2% was a need for DIFFERENCE IN COST healthier Meet the new eco-brides. Green weddings are not the jute- and burlap- of a green wedding vs. a products.” adorned affairs of years past thrown by the occasional zealot: Today, one in five conventional one Bringing home a Sofi could engaged couples globally with a standard budget want their wedding to be eco- be another coup. friendly, according to Splendid Insights, a wedding-focused market-research firm. Here in New The winners will York, a range of businesses have cropped up to serve sustainable-minded couples without be announced sacrificing style. ¶ Jewelers such as Barbara Michelle Jacobs use recycled metals to produce $3B July 1 at the P ESTIMATED SPENDING summer Fancy Food Show, which wedding rings, while fast-growing caterer Parker Red focuses on local and organic produce. runs from June 30 to July 2 at the on green weddings in the Jacob Javits Center. Gardenia Organic and Molly Oliver Flowers are among the newbies providing fair-trade flowers. U.S. this year —laura lorenzetti There’s even a biannual fair, Wed Altered, held in Manhattan, that See BRIDE on Page 30 Source: The Wedding Report

June 24, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 29 SOURCE LUNCH: The bride wore green DAVID VON SPRECKELSEN by Matt Chaban Continued from Page 29 introduces brides to ethically made, eco-conscious bridal gowns. Couples seeking an eco- conscious wedding typically spend Toll Brothers move about 2% more than those throw- ing a traditional affair, with spend- ing on green weddings expected to beyond McMansions reach nearly $3 billion in the U.S. this year, according to a recent study by market-research firm the Wedding Report. hen Toll Brothers credit line nationwide. We bought “At least half of the brides are in- I DO: Saving money and the moved into New the Touraine site with just cash; we terested in sustainability as a com- planet is the goal. York City, many bought the Gramercy site with just ponent of their wedding,” said Liz sneered at the cash; we bought a site in Dumbo Neumark, CEO of Great Perfor- Philadelphia de- with just cash. This was in ’09 and mances, which uses local vendors, launched her company in 2010 out summer and has eight booked this velopers,W who are famous for their ’10.Most of the condo guys were not owns a farm upstate and is the ex- of her apartment and is opening a summer. Couples have a wide-an- McMansions. But over the past yet back, and we were competing clusive caterer for the Plaza Hotel storefront on June 30 in Gowanus, gle view of the Manhattan skyline decade, Toll Brothers City Living, with the rental guys, and we can al- and the Brooklyn Academy of Mu- gaining much-needed space to ac- and access to the top sustainable with David Von Spreckelsen at the ways pay more than them. sic. “I think this is more than a commodate her three employees. vendors in the city. helm, has carved out a prominent trendy thing to do. This really She produces five dresses a month place in the city. A former economic And what about now? speaks to them as a value.” on average, and each gown ranges Big picture development specialist in the Koch The market is really heated up, and The wedding reception offers from $1,200 to $4,000. “In general, people are focused and Giuliani administrations, Mr. the pricing we’re seeing now has the greatest opportunities for eco- Brooklyn resident Tegan on the whole picture of their wed- Von Spreckelsen, president of the passed the last peak substantially. improvement: It is a wedding’s Roberts, 29, and her husband, ding,” said Anastasia Cole Plakias, New York City division, has helped You’ve got Michael Shvo paying largest source of waste, producing Bryan Roberts, 30, got married in co-founder and managing partner build condo towers from Williams- $800 a foot for the High Line site. nearly 400 to 600 pounds per wed- October in Lake George,N.Y.The of Brooklyn Grange. “The beauty burg to the Upper East Side. You’re starting to see pricing now of ding, according to dvGreen, a New couple focused on ethically sourced doesn’t have to do with only the set- $600, $700, $800 a foot. It’s putting York City event company. It is also and fair-trade options. up and design but how that is affect- Next year marks City Living’s 10th people in a position where nobody the celebration’s single biggest ex- “We were already interested in ing the ecosystem around them.” anniversary in New York. What’s changed can say they’re getting a great buy on pense, accounting for more than fair trade and organic and in all the Brooklyn Grange partners with over the decade? anything. half of the $28,000 average wed- Parker Red catering, which uses We did some projects early on in ding cost. produce from the rooftop farm. Williamsburg, which I didn’t think In Williamsburg, you sold the site for the Planning a sustainable wedding Launched in October 2012, Parker would have been ahead of the curve. third tower at Northside Piers. Seeing can be a daunting task for already Red has seen its sales increase by But for a lot of people who where the market is, do you stressed couples. Rather than try- 25% as a result of its event partner- came to our sales office WHERE wish you hadn’t? ing to cover all the bases, wedding ship with Brooklyn Grange. from places like Manhat- THEY We looked at it again, and expert Mireya Navarro recom- Couples who book there also tan felt the neighborhood some other sites, but it’s mends steps as simple as cutting the have access to organic flowers hadn’t arrived yet. DINED just too big. For condos in guest list or donating the decora- through Molly Oliver Flowers, Based on that experi- THE NOMAD the city now, we think 100 tions at the end of the evening. which gets its blossoms from the ence, we’re really focusing 1170 Broadway units is about the right mix. “There are so many opportuni- Youth Farm at the High School for on neighborhoods that are (347) 472-5660 Just get in,get out.On Park www.thenomad ties for cutting waste and educating Public Service in Crown Heights, established. When your hotel.com Avenue on the Upper East people,” said Ms. Navarro, author Brooklyn. And they can expand main focus is condo, the Side,we’re only going to do of Green Wedding: Planning Your their event space by taking advan- way ours is, it needs to be AMBIENCE: 11 units with a three-story ‘This is If Louis XIV were Eco-Friendly Celebration. tage of BLDG 92, the LEED that way, because you get a downtown penthouse. But with these Even leftover food can avoid the platinum-certified building within one chance to sell a proj- hipster—skinny huge sites, selling condos, trash heap: City Harvest works more than the Navy Yard. ect. If everything isn’t per- suits and drapes you wind up competing with caterers, including Great Per- a trendy Marie Ostby,27,and her fiancé, fectly right, then you’re aplenty. with yourself. Rental, it’s a formances, to rescue leftover food Jonathan Buccola, 33, didn’t origi- going to suffer for it. WHAT THEY ATE: different story,and we have for city soup kitchens. nally seek a green wedding. But as Ⅲ Fluke sashimi, a division, Toll Commer- thing to do’ she struggled to find a wedding Still, it seems like you’re sweetbread cial,that is looking into do- Natural fit dress that fit her style, a friend rec- everywhere. spring rolls ing more rental projects. Ⅲ A green-focused wedding is a ommended the Cotton Bride. The We’re certainly busy, but Duck Ⅲ Suckling pig natural fit for Ms. Ehrhart, 27, and Long Island City, Queens-based we’ve been more selective, Can this market last? her fiancé, Dan Kartzman, 32, who company uses only natural fabrics so we’re on Gramercy, TOTAL: At a certain point, all of Ⅲ founded Powersmith, a company different ways to be socially con- and produces all of its dresses using we’re on Park at 89th, $130, including these wealthy buyers are tip that outfits homes for energy effi- scious as well as environmentally local seamstresses. It began selling we’ve got a tower on Park going to have purchased a ciency. To minimize their carbon conscious,” said Ms. Roberts, who directly to brides in 2010 and grew Avenue South going up, unit, and I don’t know how footprint, they will use as many lo- started a blog, In Tandem Fair its customer base through word of we just did the Touraine at 65th and deep that market is. cal vendors as possible for their New Trade Weddings, to document her mouth. Fikre Ayele, director of op- Lex.Further down the line,we’ve got Hampshire wedding, including the wedding-planning experience and erations and marketing, expects to something on First and 52nd and in So it’s a bubble? caterer, photographer and florist. help others discover fair-trade see 12% more orders in 2013. Hudson Square, on King Street.The I don’t think it’s a bubble. I don’t For her gown, Ms. Ehrhart dis- options. Ms.Ostby was struck by the ap- project we’re doing in Brooklyn is in think you’re going to see pricing de- covered designer Rebecca Schone- The couple cut waste, and costs, peal of the natural fabric and sim- Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is basi- crease any time soon, but I do think veld, who produces dresses locally, by booking an outdoor venue that ple silhouette. It was unlike any- cally in Brooklyn Heights,which was it’s going to level off at a certain point via Etsy. Ms. Schoneveld worked provided natural beauty, eliminat- thing she found in the more basically the first suburb. as the market gets more saturated. with the bride to customize details ing the need for most decorations. popular bridal stores in the city,and When 205 Water came out in such as finding lace made in the They opted for potted plants in- it sparked a search for other sus- How’d you manage to do so well during Dumbo, we got $900 a foot, the best U.S. Ms. Schoneveld said that her stead of cut flowers and sourced a tainable options. the downturn? price. In Gramercy, we raised prices heirloom-quality dresses get a sec- local florist to make her bouquet us- The Aug. 3 wedding in her We were fortunate coming out of the six times,and we’re at something like ond life by being shortened and ing organic blooms. Most impor- hometown in Norway will use real estate recession and having a lot $2,000 a foot now. I think when reused, donated or saved for a tant, the food had to be sustainable. nearby vendors and locally sourced of cash and not needing to borrow, more product comes on the market, daughter. “I think the biggest thing was produce and flowers. when most lenders were very reluc- you’re not going to be able to auto- “We’re so disconnected from having a caterer who used local and “Wearing an all-natural cotton tant to do condo loans.Toll has about matically say,“I can get $2,000 a foot what we buy,so it was important to seasonal food,” said Ms. Roberts. dress felt like a perfect fit with the a billion in cash and a billion-dollar for any site.” Ⅲ keep that sense of being made For couples tying the knot in beauty of the Norwegian country- here,” said Ms. Schoneveld, who is New York City, rooftop farm side,” said Ms. Ostby. “And it got based in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Grange may be as close as me thinking about my whole wed- INSIDE TIP: For the carb-averse like Mr. Von Her business is growing fast.She couples can get to their wedding ding as a local, natural event, from feast’s origins. The farm in the the wildflowers in my bouquet to Spreckelsen, the Nomad, with ornately LISTEN to a discussion at Brooklyn Navy Yard opened its the locally sourced produce and carnivorous entrées, is the perfect place. CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts space to weddings at the end of last seafood.” Ⅲ

30 | Crain’s New York Business | June 24, 2013 OUT AND SNAPS Two of Crain’s 50 Most Powerful Women pitch in ABOUT by Ali Elkin and Theresa Agovino

CULTURE FIX CAREER BUILDER THURSDAY, JUNE 27, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 TO SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Hone your public-speaking skills See the Amanda Selwyn at the New York Public Library’s Dance Theatre’s premiere SPEAK WITH THE POISE, PASSION of IT’S A GAME, a piece that AND PERSUASIVE POWER OF A brings chess to life, BROADWAY ACTOR. The free drawing inspiration from program will be held at the designer Alexander Science, Industry and Business McQueen and the wizard’s Library at 188 Madison Ave. chess scenes in the Harry Potter series. Speaking coach Maria Guida will give a lesson in how to

Performances start at 7:30 p.m. at New York rick schwab Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St. Tickets are $30 speak with confidence and MARYANNE GILMARTIN (No. 16 on Crain’s list and are available at www.newyorklivearts.org clarity.The program begins at of 50 Most Powerful Women) and BRETT roccofrank photography or by calling (212) 924-0077. 6 p.m. For more information, YORMARK at the gala benefit for the Brooklyn PAUL GLICKMAN, PETER RIGUARDI, DAVID LEVINSON and JONATHAN MECHANIC at Big visit www.nypl.org or call Hospital Foundation. The June 12 event raised Brothers Big Sisters of New York City’s 14th Annual Casino Jazz Night on June 12, which raised FRIDAY, JUNE 28, TO SUNDAY, JUNE 30 (917) 275-6975. more than $1.3 million. more than $1.4 million for the organization’s youth-mentoring programs. Get a comedy fix at the DEL CLOSE MARATHON, a 56-hour festival of improv SUNDAY, JUNE 30, honoring director and teacher Del Close, TO TUESDAY, JULY 2 hosted by the Upright Citizens Brigade Major players in the specialty-food Theatre.The shows take place at several world will converge upon the venues around the city and feature UCB Jacob K. Javits Convention Center groups. Performances will go on through the for the FANCY FOOD SHOW. Some weekend at all hours. Wristbands are available 2,400 exhibitors will display at any of the venues for $30.They work for products ranging from cheese to entry to most shows in the marathon, but for coffee to spices.The show opens at a premium show (with a well-known group), 10 a.m. each day. Attendee badges an extra $20 ticket is needed. A listing of cost $60. Registration is available premium shows and online ticketing is at online at specialtyfood.com and on www. delclosemarathon.com/dcm15/ site. Visit the website or call pages/buy_tickets. (212) 482-6440 for information.

DON’T MISS MIDSUMMER NIGHT SWING angela jimenez photography JUDITH RODIN (No. 48 on Crain’s list) and

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, TO SATURDAY, JULY 13 media hart DAVID ROCKEFELLER JR. at the June 13 Lincoln Center will host a two- JEREMY MCMILLAN, BETH SHAPIRO and RICHARD GERE at the annual Chefs’ Tribute to benefit for the Municipal Art Society, which week outdoor dance party Citymeals-on-Wheels. The June 10 event raised $820,000. raised $1.1 million. featuring rock, jazz, mambo and swing music at DAMROSCH PARK IN LINCOLN SQUARE. Tickets for See more of this week’s Snaps online at CrainsNewYork.com/galleries. individual nights are $17 per person, and multinight packages are available. A pass for every night of the series is $170 and is good for two people each night. Dancing starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at www.midsummernight swing.org. For more information, call (212) 875-5000.

OPENING FUNDRAISERS SATURDAY, JUNE 29 MONDAY, JUNE 24 MoMA PS 1’s outdoor music The ROBINSON CANO SUPER HEROES series WARM UP is back this year FUNDRAISER AND DOMINO TOURNAMENT will with a packed lineup of DJs. Each be held at 7 p.m. at the 40/40 Club, 6 W. week through Saturday, Sept. 7, 25th St. The event benefits the Yankee the courtyard of the Long Island second baseman’s RC24 Foundation, which City, Queens, museum turns into a funds initiatives aimed at underserved dance party fueled by children, often in New York and the experimental music. Admission is Dominican Republic, but also around the $15 in advance and $18 at the world. The event will feature a domino door. LIC residents get in free. tournament, and the finalists will go up Doors open at noon, and the event against Mr. Cano himself. Tickets are $500, and domino tournament admission is $750. Registration is available online at www.cano24.com/charity.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Chess in the Schools, which brings chess lessons to students in New York City public schools, will throw a BLACK AND WHITE PARTY starts at 3 p.m. The museum is at at 7 p.m. at EVR Lounge, 54 W. 39th St.The 22-25 Jackson Ave. Visit organization’s Young Professionals www.momaps1.org for more Committee is hosting the event.Tickets are information or call (718) 784- $75 and are available at www.blackandwhite 2084. chessparty-es2.eventbrite.com. MARK YOUR CALENDAR… SATURDAY, JULY 20 Celebrate the city’s coastline at CITY OF WATER DAY. Held primarily at Governors Island and Liberty State Park, the event features free access to aquatic activities, including boat tours and kayak lessons. Activities will also be available at other stations around the city. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit www.cityofwaterday.org or call (212) 935-9831.

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