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NYC Opera Faces Tragedy 20111212-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 12/9/2011 8:50 PM Page 1 INSIDE REPORT TOP STORIES PHILANTHROPY Michael Gross Individual giving fills seeks a light in the gaps left by shrinking public funds Kardarkness ® PAGE 2 PAGE 13 VOL. XXVII, NO. 50 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM DECEMBER 12-18, 2011 PRICE: $3.00 UH OH,OPRAH Giving an upgrade Daytime queen’s new to school lunches venture struggles to gain PAGE 3 traction, eroding brand’s lustre Retail alert! Men shop up a storm BY MATTHEW FLAMM PAGE 2 Next month,when the Oprah Winfrey Network debuts its new slate of shows, high on the list will be a weekly series called Oprah’s Next Biz leaders tongue- Chapter. Executives at OWN have got to be hoping their network tied as city foots bill starts a new chapter, too. for Cuomo tax hike Eleven months into her joint venture with Discovery PAGE 4; EDITORIAL, PAGE10 Communications, Oprah Winfrey is getting a punishing lesson in the limitations of her legendary brand in a media landscape that has never been more cluttered. Despite programming expenses of $135 million in 2011, OWN drew roughly the same number of viewers as the low-rated channel it replaced, Discovery Health—whose programming budget was just $29 million, according to SNL Kagan. Two much-trumpeted shows that launched this fall, The Rosie Show and Oprah’s Lifeclass,pretty much dropped off the map after modest starts. Adding insult to injury,Ms.Winfrey’s departure from BUSINESS LIVES the broadcast dial now appears to have been overhyped.WABC lost a chunk of audience in her GOTHAM GIGS old 4 p.m. time slot, but remained New York’s Jingle all the way to the bank P. 21 No. 1 station. harperfred O, the Oprah Magazine, seems ● ANNE FISHER City Harvest gets cooking See OPRAH on Page 20 during the holidays P. 21 ● MOVERS & SHAKERS Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue visionary P. 22 ● GAEL GREENE Todd English at the Plaza P. 23 NYC Opera faces tragedy Armory INDEX The two sides reached an impasse outgunned REAL ESTATE DEALS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _5 A walkout by musicians and choristers in contract negotiations earlier this SMALL BUSINESS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _7 could put the organization out of business month and are hoping to get back THE INSIDER _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8 to the bargaining table this week in Bronx VIEWPOINT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _10 The beleaguered company’s fu- with the help of a mediator, who BY MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR OPINION ture now hinges on its ability to was appointed last Wednesday. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _11 Projects rise despite CLASSIFIEDS make a deal with the orchestra and If an agreement isn’t reached, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _18 The once venerable New York City singers’unions,both of which have the unions—which say their new HOT JOBS Kingsbridge fiasco _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _21 Opera is hanging by a thread, de- passed strike-authorization votes contract would basically turn them EXECUTIVE MOVES _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _21 spite a radical restructuring that and are waging an aggressive cam- into freelancers earning just a frac- BY HILARY POTKEWITZ THE WEEK AHEAD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _23 has seen it abandon its Lincoln paign against the opera and its tion of what they used to take Center home and slash costs. general manager, George Steel. See CITY OPERA on Page 9 November’s announcement that a $270 million shopping center will be built near Co-op City next NEXT WEEK A SPECIAL spring—the third retail project to YEAR END DOUBLE ISSUE win a green light in the Bronx in re- ELECTRONIC EDITION cent months—has left some resi- dents of the Kingsbridge neigh- 2012 BOOK OF LISTS borhood feeling a little envious. NEWSPAPER See ARMORY on Page 9 20111212-NEWS--0002,0003-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 12/9/2011 8:48 PM Page 1 COMMENTARY What’s hot in retail? Men Discarding who actually like to shop the Kards Websites, brick-and- mortar stores prosper recently walked into the biggest Barnes & as younger men suit Noble in Los Angeles, where I was greeted by a huge sign promoting a personal appear- up for workforce ance by the Kardashian sisters, who have al- legedly “written” a novel. Anything that gets BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI customers into bookstores is fine with me, but per- I Men were flocking to the meatpack- sonally,I don’t watch “reality” television and the only ing district last week, but not to drink thing that interests me about the Kardashian clan is at the neighborhood’s hip bars or their dad,the late Robert Kardashian,O.J.Simpson’s dance at its swanky clubs. They were in full-scale shopping mode. best friend and links. Celebrity They’ve been visiting the new hol- sometime lawyer names drive traf- iday pop-up store from GQ magazine and garment bag fic to websites, and Park & Bond, the full-priced carrier, who ulti- attract unique menswear site that launched four mately admitted readers and cause months ago. Buying dapper he had his doubts them to spend menswear is all the rage, and Park & about his pal’s in- time there, and Bond is just one retailer reaping the nocence on mur- the resulting benefits. der charges. numbers al- “You see a new generation of guys I’m apparently legedly deter- who are more conscious about the way in a distinct mi- mine success in they dress and what that says about nority, though. MICHAEL the marketplace. them,” said Park & Bond President And the proof is GROSS So inexorably, John Auerbach, noting that the 10- in the clicks, or intelligence and day shop will introduce the brand to should I say specialized even more customers. klicks, which have sent the knowledge are nudged off the Total U.S. men’s apparel sales rose sort of gossip columns and information superhighway 6.5% to $53.7 billion this year blogs I used to consume like and into roadside ditches and through September, well ahead of the candy into the same limbo as back alley niches while online 1.2% uptick in women’s apparel sales, intelligent television drama publishers with a will to pow- according to NPD Group Inc. While and morning news shows that er and big profits chase those womenswear is already fully saturated buck ennis report news instead of, well, clicks, dumbing down their with players, menswear is just begin- STYLISH STRATEGY: John Auerbach’s Park & Bond website has teamed with GQ on a pop-up store. the Kardashians. product while proclaiming it ning to gain momentum. I’m talking about writing Special K! Thus, society As more men get into shopping, aimed squarely and frankly at columns become celebrity retailers are shopping for men. Sever- event last week. ally to distinguish their style. Many the small but influential audi- columns, gossip columns that al menswear shopping sites have been “It’s really in the beginning stages. now know the difference between ence of knowing cognoscenti, once afflicted the comfortable established recently, including luxury The growth in menswear will contin- Stewart and Buffalo plaids, or tweed a skeptical urban elite situated elites now promote reality TV seller Mr Porter, which is less than a ue to go forward,”said Michael Lond- and herringbone fabrics. not only here in New York,but stars, rappers and club pro- year old. In addition, specialty retail- rigan, chair of fashion merchandising “The younger generation has seen also in other great cities (and moters, and investigations ers such as Bottega Veneta and J.Crew at LIM College, adding that men are their fathers dressed in khakis and a in coming weeks, resorts), into the nuances of power and Group Inc.have begun to divide men’s no longer “second-class citizens in polo shirt, and that doesn’t look cool who care about how it is wielded fashions into separate stores—the lat- terms of shopping.” to them,” said Ken Giddon, co-own- power and the Today, are too often ter now has four of them in Manhat- The popularity is attributed to er of Rothman’s, an 85-year-old re- people who wield brushed aside as tan.
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