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Property Mogul Aiming for 2Nd Coup TW Cable Picks up the Phone 20111024-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 10/21/2011 8:51 PM Page 1 INSIDE 40 UNDER FORTY NOMINATIONS TOP STORIES OPEN Why New York ON OCT. 31 should sell the Go to www.crainsnewyork. Javits Center ® OPINION, PAGE 12 com/40under40 VOL. XXVII, NO. 43 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM OCTOBER 24-30, 2011 PRICE: $3.00 Property How to be in mogul business for 100 years or more aiming for SMALL BUSINESS, PAGE 3 Big Apple braces 2nd coup for 30% smaller Wall St. bonuses Andrew Farkas buys PAGE 3 battered pieces for Laurie Tisch gives juggernaut; now must Whitney $10M for get them to mesh education center BY THERESA AGOVINO NEW YORK, NEW YORK, P. 6 In the wake of the great real estate bust, a number of real estate investors have BUSINESS LIVES jumped back into the market, hoping to make a killing by snapping up beat- en-down assets. Few have been more aggressive than Andrew Farkas, founder, chairman and chief executive of real estate merchant bank Island Capital Group. Just last week, he bought a stake in Grubb & Ellis Co., a once prominent but now money-losing commercial property brokerage that may be delist- ed from the New York Stock Ex- MUTUAL AID change. That follows a torrid 18- SOCIETY: Activists, month buying spree in which he GOTHAM GIGS new and old, are See MOGUL on Page 26 Wafels & Dinges’ energizing each waffler in chief others’ causes. ● ANNE FISHER From Bowery flophouse to trendy hotel P. 27 buck ennis TW Cable ● MOVERS & SHAKERS The skinny on financial modeling P. 28 picks up ● GAEL GREENE Wong New kids for the bloc eatery is so right P. 30 the phone INDEX Big Labor is recruiting Occupy Wall Street Looks to win business THE INSIDER _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8 protesters to spice up its tired campaigns customers away from NEIGHBORHOOD JOURNAL _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _9 telecom rival Verizon REAL ESTATE DEALS PLUS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _20 clocks, readied video cameras and departed in small BY DANIEL MASSEY FOR THE RECORD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _21 groups into a steady rain,with plans to reunite on the seventh floor of the auction house at 10:32 a.m. BY MATTHEW FLAMM CLASSIFIEDS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _22 On a soggy day last week, 15 Occupy Wall Street As an auctioneer opened the bidding on Lot 443 EXECUTIVE MOVES _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _27 protesters huddled in a Citibank ATM vestibule on of the Lily & Edma J. Safra collection—writer John Usually, people hate their cable com- THE WEEK AHEAD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _30 the Upper East Side.They rehearsed lines for a mock Morley’s Diderot and the Encyclopaedists—the “court pany. But for years the small business THE WEEK ON THE WEB _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _31 trial of Sotheby’s,the art auction house that has been of the 99%” was called to order. The stunt ended tenants at The Old American Can CHEAT SHEET _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _31 locked in a dispute with 43 art handlers for nearly quickly,with security moving in, but not before pro- Factory complex in the Gowanus sec- three months.Then they synched up their cellphone See NEW KIDS FOR THE BLOC on Page 25 tion of Brooklyn complained about their slow DSL Internet connection and Verizon Communications’ poor customer service. REPORT NEXT-GEN BROKERS So earlier this year,the landlord,XØ P. 15 Projects Inc., switched the 100-tenant Making their mark in real estate complex to Time Warner Cable Busi- P. 19 ness Class—helping the 5-year-old di- Largest construction firms vision turn the tables on its phone com- NEWSPAPER See CABLE on Page 14 20111024-NEWS--0002,0003-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 10/21/2011 8:21 PM Page 1 IN BRIEF Cruise line sails into New York THE PRICE TAG FOR CLOSING DOWN THE OPERATIONS OF BANKRUPT SAINT VINCENT Catholic Medical Centers and settling its debts is nearly $50 million in professional with new services for tourists fees—and the bankruptcy case is still in full swing. SVCMC filed for bankruptcy protection on April 14, 2010, and through Hornblower Yachts MAKING WAVES: Aug. 31 of this year, a total of 14 law, The Hornblower accounting and consulting firms have billed launches company to tap Infinity will arrive the health system for a collective $48.8 here next year. million.The largest bill is from the consulting into resilient market; company that was hired by the hospital board 2 state-of-the-art boats in order to dismantle the health system and sell its assets. So far, Grant Thornton’s Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Services BY LISA FICKENSCHER practice has charged $18.4 million for its work, including negotiating the $260 million New York City’s waterways are attracting sale of the Saint Vincent’s Manhattan hospital boatloads of tourists—and now a new campus to the Rudin family. Not far behind cruise line. Grant Thornton is bankruptcy counsel San Francisco-based Hornblower Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, which has Yachts Inc. is investing $20 million to run up a $16.1 million tab so far. All told, the launch a sightseeing and dinner cruise bankrupt health care system has been a company here, spurred by the strength of million-dollar client for six professional firms, the Big Apple’s tourism industry and signs while a seventh has billed just short of that: that corporate spending is returning. $998,592. n “We wanted to enter the market after it had recovered from the trauma of the re- in 2007, when it won the 10-year, $340 before the recession. cession, and it is clearly coming back, par- million National Parks Service contract to Passenger volume to the historic land- BY THE NUMBERS ticularly corporate entertainment,” said ferry people to the Statue of Liberty and marks has remained flat over the past two Terry MacRae, chief executive of Horn- Ellis Island. Its winning bid bested Circle years, at 3.8 million, which Hornblower Weekly shift of the city’s economy blower, the largest dinner cruise company Line Downtown,which had held the Parks attributes to security screening measures in California. Service contract for the previous 54 years. that were implemented after Sept. 11. CAVEAT EURO From a big jump in a manufacturing One indication that demand for sight- Statue Cruises currently runs 12 boats. Even a new online reservation system that buck ennis index to slightly fewer jobless claims and dud seeing boats has increased is the city’s 6- “We knew we’d have the opportunity to allows visitors to prepay for their tickets loans on banks’ books, the picture at home improved, but Europe remains a potential killer. month-old ferry service on the East River, expand in New York,” said Mr. MacRae. and wait for shorter times has not done connecting Queens and Brook- The expansion into the dinner enough to boost passenger volumes, said lyn to midtown and the financial cruise business coincides with the Mr. MacRae, who added that there is de- #1 40% $7,782 district, which has attracted new Sept. 11 memorial, which is mand. And later this month, a yearlong JPMORGAN FLIGHTS into AVERAGE twice as many passengers and 3.8M attracting even more visitors to renovation of the Statue of Liberty will be CHASE’s rank by Newark airport monthly tourists as the city had expected. PASSENGERS lower Manhattan, where Horn- begin, closing off the interior of the mon- assets among that were late in rent in West visit the historic blower picks up passengers. And ument to the public and possibly deterring U.S. banks, August SoHo, highest State-of-the-art crafts next year, the September 11 Mu- some visitors from coming to the island. overtaking BofA Source: U.S. in city islands annually Source: SNL Department of Source: RentJuice The new company, Horn- seum will open. Financial Transportation blower New York, will boast two Two Statue Cruise boats will Long lines hurt sales state-of-the-art crafts. Horn- eventually be added to the new The Parks Service is looking at ways to UPPING THEIR BETS Venture capital firms have nearly blower Hybrid is a 600-passenger vessel operation, making a fleet of four vessels.
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