Star Chef Preps Recipe to Address Jobs Crisis How Not to Save a B'klyn
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INSIDE MLB’s FAN CAVE Social-media mavens score one for the game CRAIN’S® NEW YORK BUSINESS P. 25 VOL. XXX, NO. 18 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM MAY 5-11, 2014 PRICE: $3.00 NY’s new arts nexus Move over, Brooklyn: Queens is rising fast on city culture scene BY THERESA AGOVINO The Queens Theatre’s walls are lined with photos of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, a nod to the building’s genesis as part of the New York State Pavilion. Plays inspired by the World’s Fairs of 1939 and 1964— each held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park—are on tap for this summer. The theater’s managing director,Taryn Sacra- mone, is hoping nostalgia and curiosity about the fairs draw more people to the institution as she tries to raise its profile. STAGING A REVIVAL: Managing Director Taryn Momentum is on her side because Sacramone is seeking Queens is on a cultural roll. Ms. Sacramone’s new programming for See QUEENS on Page 23 the Queens Theatre. buck ennis How not to save a B’klyn hospital Star chef preps recipe Unions, activists, de Blasio fought to stop But the two opponents were in to address jobs crisis court on Friday only because com- LICH’s closure. Careful what you wish for munity groups, unions and politi- cians with little understanding of Each week, the French chef has Hospital in Cobble Hill, faced off New York’s complex health care in- So many restaurants, between 10 to 30 job openings in his BY BARBARA BENSON in a Brooklyn courtroom late last dustry have, for the past year, inject- too few workers; seven restaurants and catering busi- Friday. At face value, their beef ed themselves into business deci- ness in New York City. His plight is Lawyers for the State University of with each other is a contract dis- sions SUNY was entitled to make as Daniel Boulud’s fix similar to that of restaurants citywide New York and for Brooklyn pute,the kind of legal sparring that LICH’s owner and operator. that offer both fine and casual dining. Health Partners, the would-be de- plays out in courtrooms across the Of course, health care is unlike In fact, the restaurant industry, veloper of Long Island College city every day. See HOSPITAL on Page 24 BY LISA FICKENSCHER one of the fastest-growing in the city, has been hobbled by an inabili- Daniel Boulud believes he has a solu- ty to attract enough workers. Dur- 18 tion to the acute labor shortage in the ing the past six months, there have 5 REAL ESTATE REPORT It’s an amenities arms race as huge restaurant industry:a European-style been an average of 2,500 open numbers of new units hit market, P. 13 apprenticeship program that taps kitchen positions at any one time, THE LIST: NY AREA’S LARGEST REAL ESTATE high-school students, drawing them estimates Luke Fryer, chief execu- FINANCINGS, P. 16 into the job pool in partnership with tive of Harri.com,a new job site that the city’s Department of Education. See STAR CHEF on Page 23 71486 01068 0 EDITOR’S NOTE Brown fields FYICRAINSNEWYORK.COM Another swank swath of Manhattan was landmarked last week: the newly anointed Park Avenue Historic Teachers get raises, but District, along the East 80s. Yet savings could be elusive another 12 blocks of boring bourgeois architecture from the t had to be big to cause Mayor Bill de 1910s and ’20s deemed so special it Blasio to postpone the release of his couldn’t possibly host substantial housing-policy blueprint, and it was: a Glenn Coleman I new construction that might house, new nine-year contract for city teachers. ¶ say, middle-class stiffs. Nearly 30% The deal, which is pending approval by the MAKING MUSIC United Federation of Teachers at Humanities of Manhattan is now under the jurisdiction of the city’s ’ 110,000 Preparatory members, sets benchmarks that pave the way Academy in Landmarks Preservation Commission.That’s one in Manhattan four structures fenced off by brown street signs and for agreements on the city’s roughly 150 other bureaucratic barriers to anything bigger or better. expired union contracts. It awards retroactive buck ennis Manhattan architecture seems in danger of becoming raises (a combined 8% for 2009 and 2010) and future ones (about 10% for 2013 to 2018), and Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above revamps health care policies to allegedly save the city more than $2,000 per employee annually. ¶ average. Where is the room to build the 200,000 units The health care changes, which are said to neither reduce benefits nor demand that teachers pay of affordable housing that Mayor Bill de Blasio has more for their health care, require approval by an umbrella group of city unions that blocked a promised the city? Not in these backyards, apparently. similar effort by the Bloomberg administration. ¶ The $3.5 billion in back pay will be spread over Of course, many property owners and residents rightly six years, through 2020.The deal gives teachers 80 minutes a week of training, 40 minutes a week place a high value on living and working in landmarked for parent outreach and $5,000 annual bonuses in “hard-to-staff ” schools.Top teachers will get neighborhoods and treasure our historic architecture. $7,500 to $20,000 a year to mentor colleagues, and a longer school day or year can be tried at up to But is the spread of landmarking in New York getting 200 schools if a supermajority of the teaching staff —65%—agrees. ¶ The process to fire tenured out of control? Can the verbs “preserve” and “progress” teachers for misconduct will be limited to 50 days, but those without schools will still not be coexist in this town? I’ll be posing these questions on required to land an assignment.Translation:The notorious “rubber room” will live on. May 20 to five of the most knowledgeable people in —erik engquist real estate preservation and development: Peg Breen of GRIMM INDICTMENT. Rep. Michael BIG BET. Malaysian gambling giant the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Nikolai Fedak Grimm, R-Staten Island, was and Aqueduct slot operator Genting HOORAY! charged with evading taxes by hiding made a case for its proposed 238-acre SOME of the website New York Yimby, Professor Kenneth more than $1 million in sales and casino resort in Tuxedo, N.Y. VERSION of Jackson of Columbia University, Steven Spinola of the wages while running a small Man- Dubbed Sterling Forest Resort, the the divey Mars Bar will Real Estate Board of New York and Ronda Wist of the hattan restaurant. He pleaded not project would offer skiing, dining, reopen at its Municipal Art Society.We gather at 8 a.m. at the New guilty,calling his indictment a “polit- entertainment venues and 400 hotel old home on ical witch hunt.” … THANKS, MOM. rooms. It would create 2,000 “good- Second York Athletic Club, the 1929 limestone-clad palazzo Avenue in the Aéropostale will shutter 125 of its paying” jobs, in addition to construc- East Village. that in many eyes is the very definition of handsome. P.S. kids-focused stores, partly be- tion positions, Genting said. … TAXI Too bad,I suppose, that this 21-story tower replaced cause of mothers’ changing buying SURCHARGE. The de Blasio adminis- patterns, the retail chain said. It will tration approved a 30-cent surcharge buck ennis the famed Spanish Flats, the Moorish-style fortress also eliminate 100 corporate jobs. on yellow, green and livery taxi rides considered the most elegant apartment house in 1880s The company expects pretax savings as part of a plan to raise money to OY VEY! Gotham.To purchase tickets, call (212) 210-0739 or of up to $35 million a year from the make half the city’s 14,000 cabs go to www.crainsnewyork.com/events. move. … AVON’S wheelchair-accessi- DEEP BLUSH. Avon ‘You stop ble by 2020.Current- Products will pay ly,fewer than 700 are. $135 million to the Aereo, you … CITY’S TECH CZAR. THIS WEEK IN CRAIN’S Justice Department Mayor Bill de Blasio and Securities and stop is expected to hire a ap images IN THE BOROUGHS-------------------------- 3 Exchange Commis- technology’ tech guru to spear- A NEW HAVEN-BOUND Amtrak train sion to settle terms re- head the city’s digital IN THE MARKETS----------------------------------4 —Media mogul Barry carrying 123 passengers got stuck inside the East River tube for about two lated to a probe into Diller, on the television- initiatives. The new THE INSIDER -----------------------------------------------6 hours Wednesday evening. bribery in China that streaming service’s case hire will have bigger BUSINESS PEOPLE ---------------------------8 began in 2008. The before the Supreme Court duties than did Manhattan-based Rachel Haot, a 92nd Street Y’s 140-year history. 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