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ANOTHER ALBANY SCANDAL Greg David on what happens next for CRAIN’S® Skelos PAGE 9 NEW YORK BUSINESS ap images VOL. XXXIV, NO. 16 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM APRIL 20-26, 2015 PRICE: $3.00 This is what legalized pot looks like in NY

Entrepreneurs want to get a GOLD RUSH: The green leafy bud must be turned into an piece of the state’s budding amber-colored cannibusiness. But bringing extract. the drug to market, it turns out, is a high-risk investment

BY MATTHEW FLAMM When Jason Pinsky talks about cannabis extracts—the con- centrates made from marijuana that can pack a joint’s worth of weed into a dab of oil or wax—the Brooklyn businessman sounds like a fragrance specialist, not a stoner. He mentions terpenes and flavonoids, color and texture. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Mr. Pinsky, a dot- com-era chief technology officer and former tech consult- ant to the band Phish, is laying the groundwork for a cannabis extracts-related business called Cannastract. He also had the honor last year of judging concentrates at all six of the Cannabis Cup competitions run by High Times magazine, a feat requiring stamina in addition to a keen nose. Amsterdam’s winner, he noted, had a “unique flavor profile.” It smelled like “cotton candy,” tasted like “pink lemonade” and packed a high “strong enough to make an impression” af- ter a day of sampling entries. But Mr. Pinsky, 41, really becomes passionate when he talks about the medical benefits of concentrates he has had See POT on Page 39

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For years on my way to work I passed Annie Moore’s, an Irish Etsy’s IPO gets pub on East 43rd Street at Vanderbilt Avenue, next to Grand Brooklyn halfway Central Terminal. In the mornings to... Queens I’d peer in at the breakfast crowd; in the evenings I’d squeeze past nce you get out of the drinkers smoking on the Manhattan, the borough with Jeremy Smerd sidewalk. I didn’t give it much Othe largest cluster of publicly thought until I finally had lunch traded companies is, according to there a couple weeks ago with an avid Crain’s reader, Crain’s research, Queens. JetBlue only to learn that the place will close this month. It’s Airways, Steve Madden, Standard bloomberg news a reminder how, in New York, no matter how long Motor Products and Sirona Dental you ignore a place you’ll notice it one day when it’s Systems all call Long Island City home. But Brooklyn is on the board. ¶ Last week, Dumbo- suddenly gone. Annie Moore’s is closing (as are all based e-tailer Etsy became the second Kings County company trading publicly. (The other is 151- its neighbors, including the pub Patrick Conways) year-old Dime Community Bancshares.) Nothing speaks better to Brand Brooklyn’s rise than that because landlord SL Green is building a 1,500-foot it’s now home to a hip, new public company with a $3 billion market value. ¶ But if you are superscraper on the block.The new building will waiting for an onslaught of Brooklyn-based companies holding IPOs, think again. Only four of bring much to improve the experience for us its private companies generate the kind of revenues necessary to go public.They include well- midtown east desk jockeys: a pedestrian-only known outfits Vice Media, which had an estimated $175 million in revenue in 2013, and Tough Vanderbilt Avenue, wider sidewalks, an indoor Mudder, which runs a series of obstacle races and had $108 million. Others that may be ready for public plaza.The last thing I often saw (smelled, prime time include Bayside Fuel Oil Corp. ($250 million in revenue) and Cumberland Packing really) before entering Grand Central was a putrid Corp. ($234 million). ¶ Although Brooklyn’s economic revival is a couple of decades in the puddle of rainwater pooling in a nondraining corner making, it may take a lot longer to build the sort of ecosystem necessary to support companies of the street.The new building and its attendant large enough for the public markets. —aaron elstein infrastructure improvements should match the grandeur and sophistication of the beaux arts CREDIT-CHECK BAN improvement compared with last Trans World Airlines terminal at The City Council passed a bill out- year’s $276 million loss,but shy of an- John F. Kennedy International Air- terminal that anchors the neighborhood. A major lawing the use of credit checks on alysts’ per-share-price predictions. port into a 500-room hotel—its first real estate investor recently told me that the area is most job applicants, a practice that such project. One major hurdle: already on the upswing, which is why her company Council Speaker Melissa Mark- E-BOOK DEAL Building a hotel at an airport could is buying up undervalued midtown east properties. Viverito called “discriminatory.” Ex- Amazon.com has reached a multiyear cost 10% more than other types of empt from the bill deal with Harper- hotels because of security and build- It is unlikely that when 1 Vanderbilt is completed in would be top-level Collins that allows ing-dimension restrictions. the next five or so years that there will be room for executives with fidu- ‘Dude, you the publisher to set the slightly downscale Irish pubs, with their older ciary duties and em- have a city to the retail prices of its AFTER SCANDAL, A NEW CHIEF ployees who manage digital books, with Two years after the Metropolitan customers feasting on shepherd’s pie. But don’t cry assets or oversee fi- run … If you incentives for Council on Jewish Poverty fired its for Annie Moore’s. I’m told it has found a new nancial agreements. want to go on a HarperCollins to CEO, William Rapfogel, who had home on East 41st Street, taking over O’Casey’s, an charge consumers embezzled $9 million, the organiza- Irish pub you may have walked past a million times PAY RAISE day trip, come lower prices. The tion has appointed Alan Schoor its All of the workers in deal is similar in new head. Mr. Schoor, 68, most re- only to learn that it closed late last year. a proposed office to Staten scope to ones reached cently served as senior vice president tower at Hudson Island to fill last year with Simon for operations at Touro College. Yards will be paid at & Schuster, Ha- THIS WEEK IN CRAIN’S least $13.30 an hour, some potholes, chette Book Group FASHION WEEK’S DUAL HOMES under a living-wage come to Coney and Macmillan. Months after getting the boot from deal between the city Lincoln Center, New York Fashion IN THE BOROUGHS------3 and developer Island and help CALLING ON BUYERS Week announced that starting in IN THE MARKETS------4 Brookfield Property New York-based September the event will take place Partners.It is the first with youth cosmetics company at the Skylight at Moynihan Station THE INSIDER ------5 such pact involving a violence’ Avon Products is ex- in midtown and Skylight Clarkson OPINION------8 construction project -State Sen. Diane Savino, ploring strategic al- Square downtown. by a developer who D-Staten Island, on Mayor ternatives, including —emily laermer GREG DAVID ------9 has applied for sig- Bill de Blasio politicking in possibly selling its REPORT: nificant tax breaks Iowa and Nebraska North America busi- from the city. It ness, as a way for the BANKING------10 could boost pay for the future tower’s struggling retailer to repair weak fi- CLASSIFIEDS ------36 maintenance workers and parking nancial results. attendants,as well as employees of its GOTHAM GIGS ------40 retail tenants. LAGUARDIA DELAYS SOURCE BREAKFAST EXECUTIVE MOVES------41 The two finalists vying to handle the Jordan Gaspar of AccelFoods WALL STREET PROSPERS $4 billion makeover of LaGuardia SNAPS------is looking to cultivate the next 42 JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Airport’s central terminal will have JUNIOR’S CROSSES HUDSON hot food startup. P. 41 FOR THE RECORD------43 Goldman Sachs reported stronger- to wait at least another month for the This summer,Junior’s will move than-expected first-quarter profits. Port Authority of New York and the baking facility for its famous vol. xxxi, no. 16, april 20, 2015—Crain’s New York Business (issn 8756-789x) is Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, New Jersey to pick a winner. 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IN THE BOROUGHS Hey, boss: need a loan? BRONX The CEO makes more than anyone, right? Not so at the biggest banks Riverdale these days, where the top dogs are being paid like second bananas preps for BY AARON ELSTEIN expansion The next time Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein goes out for drinks with Mark Schwartz, it seems only fair that the firm’s chairman for the Asia-Pacific region pick up the tab. After all, he made more money than his boss last year. Mr. Schwartz was paid $24 million, according to a regulatory filing, or $2 million more than the Goldman chief. Jobs, home sales tied Mr. Blankfein shouldn’t feel too slighted, though. None of the CEOs at Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon and to area’s private-ed Citigroup were the highest-paid executives at their companies last year. industrial complex In most of corporate America, CEOs are paid two or even three times more than the next best-compensated employees. So the fact that Mr. Blankfein—who made a whopping $68 million in 2007—and his ilk are now are getting outpaid by their BY ERIK IPSEN colleagues has a certain topsy-turvy aspect. “It’s nice to see the shoe on the other foot,” said Brandon Rees, deputy director at the AFL-CIO’s See PAY DAZE on Page 38 On Feb. 27, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. issued his annual de- velopment report ranking the largest projects of the year in the Bronx by dollar value. His latest list includes the usual suspects—a raft of large residential and commercial initiatives—but also one notable outlier: Riverdale Country School. There, work will begin in June on three big construction projects, in- cluding a $25 million natatorium with a six-lane, 25-yard-long pool. Chalk up another surprise for a 108-year-old private school that Charles Moerdler, the longtime chair of the local community board’s land-use committee, calls “an eco- nomic driver that is unknown to the public at large.” THIS GOLDMAN SACHS But make no mistake—with 22 buildings and a total of 300,000 BANKER made $2 million square feet of enclosed space more than his own chief sprawled over 27.5 acres on two executive last year. campuses one mile apart, the school pays dividends for its immediate Mark Schwartz, Lloyd area and its borough in several ways, chairman of Asia- Blankfein, CEO, including psychologically. Pacific, $24.2M $22.2M “It is seen as one of the top pri- See RIVERDALE on Page 7 bloomberg news The hottest retailer launching STATS AND THE CITY by Emily Laermer FORGET STANDARDIZED TESTS: Families across New York are boycotting Common Core state-mandated English and math exams, this spring is in, um, Hoboken which began last week.

ESTIMATED STUDENTS across the state who have opted out has seen great innovation, but it’s ship fee before they will be allowed to of state-mandated English exams as of April 17, according to Jet aims to be an largely focused on shipping and fast buy a single item.That makes it more 175Kan unofficial tally—about 16% of the total eligible to take the exam Amazon-killer. That delivery,” said Mr. Lore, who has like Costco and Sam’s Club, which could be good for been here before. He sold have a similarly priced membership ANNUAL FUNDING that the federal government Diapers.com parent Quidsi to model. (Amazon’s $99 “Prime” $900M could withhold from the New York City public small businesses Amazon for $545 million in 2010, membership isn’t a prerequisite to school system if more than 5% of its students opt out shopping on the site.) And unlike Amazon,which has a AVERAGE AMOUNT NYC BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI Saying to network of warehouses and distribu- spends per pupil, nearly tion centers across the country, Jet $20.2Kdouble the national average. Supporters In a few weeks, New Yorkers will merchants: has partnered with 400 retailers such claim tests are the best way to have a new place to buy their diapers, as eBags and Tool King, utilizing measure spending effectiveness pet food and toilet paper. Jet, a shop- ‘Here’s a way their sites to expand distribution be- ping website from Diapers.com to compete’ yond its own three warehouses, the PORTION of a teacher’s evaluation that would be founder Marc Lore, will launch nearest one to New York being in 50%based on student test scores under a proposal sometime this spring. Swedesboro in southern New Jersey. backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, up from 20% Named for the speed with which By keeping its capital costs low, it will offer the best deals, the start- Jet believes it can leverage its $220 PORTION of third- to eighth-grade students at or above up is billing itself as a rival to Ama- million in venture-capital funding 34%proficiency in math in 2014, up five percentage points from a zon because it, too, plans to sell and now he’s going for round two. to scale up and quickly grab market year earlier. English proficiency was 28%, up two percentage points. everything under the sun at unbeat- “We have an enormous opportunity share. It also believes it can win by Sources: United to Counter the Core, the Daily News, Citizens Budget Commission, New York City able prices.But what is most notable in the market to innovate around embracing competitor merchants Department of Education, New York State Deptartment of Education about Jet is what makes it different price and savings.” rather than squeezing them out. istockphoto from its cross-country rival. For starters, Jet customers have to “[ Jet’s] trying to out-Amazon ADDICTED TO NUMBERS? GET A DAILY DOSE AT @STATSANDTHECITY “Today’s e-commerce landscape pony up a $49.99 annual member- See JET on Page 38

April 20, 2015 | Crain’s New York Business | 3 20150420-NEWS--0004-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 4/17/2015 7:05 PM Page 1 IN THE AVAILABLE FOR LEASE MARKETS 155,000 sq.ft of Modern Class “A” Warehouse Space by Aaron Elstein 201 Grumman Road West, Bethpage, NY 20 minutes from Queens Line Stringing Ceiling Heights: 25’clear Features: Up to 20 docks along NY’s Radiant heat near loading bay + 3000 amps power pensions

Fully sprinklered he president of Blackstone 45x40 column spacing Group, Tony James, was asked last week if investors 6,000 sq/ft office space available T are pushing back against the hefty On-site parking available fees customers pay his prestigious private-equity firm to manage their money. CONTACT VLADI ANDREI His answer: Nope. buck ennis [email protected] “Do they like paying fees? No. Do they wish fees were 516.576.3165 lower? Yes,” Mr. James said. “Do they like the net returns after the fees? You bet they do.” Steel Equities Those words are worth considering in light of a fascinating but flawed report earlier this month by New York 700 Hicksville Road Bethpage, NY 11714 City Comptroller Scott Stringer (pictured). He claimed that 516-576-3165 managers of private-equity funds, hedge funds and other so- called alternative investment vehicles are charging the city’s public pension funds “exorbitant” fees.Those fees are a luxury the funds can’t afford considering they hold only

about 65 cents in assets for every the broader stock,bond and real es- dollar in obligations to current and tate markets. future municipal retirees. By the The case against private equity way, those payouts are guaranteed is harder to make. The city’s $9.6 by state law, meaning taxpayers are billion private-equity portfolio on the hook for any shortfalls. generated a 15.1% return last year, “It’s shocking to realize that fees or a $1.25 billion gain. For this, the have not only wiped out any bene- city paid out $80 million in fees,ac- fit to the funds,but have in fact cost cording to Crain’s research.That’s a taxpayers billions of dollars in lost lot of fees, though it’s a long way returns,” Mr. Stringer declared. from wiping out any benefit to the If you don’t read that statement pension funds. carefully you might think the pen- Without commenting specifi- sion funds are posting losses because cally on the city pension funds, Mr. of greedy Wall Street folks, which James of Blackstone (which man- isn’t the case. Nonetheless, let’s ap- ages a mere $3 million for the city’s plaud the comptroller for shining funds) delicately explained why it some light on this issue.Fees paid by can be tough for public pension the city pension system have dou- plans to pick strong money man- bled since 2007 and quintupled agers. “If you … have a bad process since 2003,and many of the 250 dif- for choosing managers, particular- GRADUATE SCHOOL ferent money managers hired to in- ly in situations where manager selec- vest the plans’ $160 billion in assets tion is influenced by relationships plainly aren’t up to snuff. or politics,you often get weak man- Advance your career at the The biggest offenders are agers who charge high fees and de- Leon Hess Business School hedge-fund managers. As a group liver poor returns,” he said. they returned just 6.8% over the That’s as solid an argument as In today’s competitive business year ended last June 30, below the can be made to switch to index environment, the more you bring, city’s internal target of 8.6% and funds and take investment deci- MBA the more you get. At Monmouth, less than a third of the gain in the sions out of the hands of the more S&P 500. For this, the city paid than 50 politically connected our MBA program will help you $112 million in fees, which means trustees who run the city pension PROGRAMS bring MORE! an incredible one-third of all the plans. Making the switch might hedge-funds’ gains were gobbled not lift returns at the chronically one hour Just from NYC up by money managers.It should be underfunded plans, but most in- Apply today! monmouth.edu/MBA Mr.Stringer’s top priority to get the vestment gains would end up in the Applications accepted year-round! The Princeton Review city out of hedge funds and into pockets of retirees rather than Wall “Best Business Schools” lower-cost investments that track Streeters. Ⅲ

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4 | Crain’s New York Business | April 20, 2015 20150420-NEWS--0005-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 4/17/2015 5:20 PM Page 1 THE out when challenged if even one es- sential fact were missing,wrong or il- INSIDER legible. The error rate fell when the by Andrew J. Hawkins & Erik Engquist city outfitted agents with handheld devices to replace paper pads. Dis- missals plunged and penalties soared. Restaurant advocates hope that is After nonendorsement, Bill IN HAPPIER TIMES: not the result of Ms. Rosenthal’s at- Mayor Bill de Blasio embraces Hillary tempt to aid them.“It would be a real (ours, not hers) followed Hil to Iowa Clinton at his shame if well-intended legislation to inauguration. help small businesses resulted in an ill de Blasio’s decision not to endorse Hillary Clinton— exercise for government to find bet- ter ways to increase fines,”said Andrew yet—for president heightened the mayor’s national corbis Rigie, executive director of the New profile last week as he took his mission against income Taxi money missing medallion prices to bounce back, York Hospitality Alliance. B which might happen if rule changes More than 90% of the 26,000- inequality to Nebraska and Iowa, where Ms. Clinton was in full campaign mode.There, he reiterated his tale of two cities Taxi insiders were buzzing after the clip taxi rivals. The risk is that plus violations challenged at the Of- City Council’s budget response list- medallion prices continue to fall. fice of Administrative Trials and speech while touting his underdog status. It was another way ed no revenue from the auction of taxi Hearings last year were against to distance himself from the Clinton campaign. medallions. The mayor’s office had eateries.About 42% of individual vi- budgeted for the annual sale of 350 Restaurant fines olations were dismissed.Ms.Rosen- “Now,the pundits didn’t give my he talked up his accomplishments medallions through fiscal 2019. Last in the crosshairs thal said that suggests they should campaign much of a chance,” he (universal prekindergarten,paid sick year, the city sold 350 for $359 mil- not have been issued. Her bill would told a group in Des Moines, Iowa. leave) while taking his message na- lion.A 2011 state law authorized it to Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal drew require that office to issue data to see “Indeed, knee-jerk conventional tional. “Income inequality isn’t sell 2,000 medallions, which then- attention last week to the high num- if violations that are regularly dis- wisdom said that asking the rich to unique to New York,” he said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted as ber of dismissals of violations issued missed are worth keeping. pay their fair share would make me Mr. de Blasio, whose Midwest crucial to balancing the budget. by city agencies. Her goal is to re- enemies in high places and be polit- trip had been scheduled well before The council may be reacting to duce the issuance of violations that ically impossible.” his nonendorsement on NBC’s low medallion values. Secondary businesses commonly beat, so mer- Playing politics on If the mayor’s snub of Ms. Clin- Meet the Press, explained on the market sales indicate the value of chants won’t have to spend time and pied-à-terre taxes ton seemed like an aberration, last show that the economy has funda- taxi medallions fell to $805,000 last money challenging them. week confirmed that it was indeed mentally changed since Ms. Clin- January,from $1.05 million in 2013. The possibility exists, however, The City Council wants to pay for strategic. While New York’s other ton’s last bid for the White House, The mayor’s November budget as- that the city could respond by mak- 1,000 new cops with a tax on luxury Democratic heavyweights, Sens. in 2008. sumes sales prices of about ing it harder to defeat tickets. Case apartments owned by out- Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand “This is a different country $850,000 for corporate medallions in point: parking violations. of-towners, but the measure is un- and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, immediate- we’re living in right now,” he said. and $550,000 for independent ones. Enforcement agents once had to likely to become law because it hinges ly climbed aboard the Clinton cam- “And I think we need to hear a vi- With tax revenue higher than ex- scribble a large amount of informa- on approval by state Senate Republi- paign, Mr. de Blasio stumped for sion that relates to this time, not pected because of the rebounding tion to ticket parked vehicles. Sum- cans and the governor, who strongly himself. At Iowa’s Drake University, eight years ago.” economy, the council can wait for monses were automatically thrown oppose raising property taxes. Ⅲ

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SMALL BUSINESS

tertainment experience and im- prove their bottom lines, strained in Cinema verité, meet in vino veritas recent years as film and other media are increasingly consumed online. According to the Motion Picture Expansion of wine, beer and spirits sales Cinema, whose original Texas loca- theater, in a place where children Association of America, box office tion pioneered the concept of en- could be present,” said Mr. Pfeffer of revenues in North America fell 5% inside movie theaters coming soon to NY couraging moviegoers to imbibe, law firm Tarter Krinksky & Drogin, last year, to $10.4 billion, while the wants to open a 900-seat theater at who four years ago helped tweak the number of tickets sold declined 6%, hoping to get approval from the a mixed-use development called Albany legislation that governs to 1.27 billion. BY DANIEL GEIGER State Liquor Authority to start sell- City Point in downtown Brooklyn. liquor licensing to open the door for “It’s the same concept as muse- ing booze to go with the show by the The new era of drinking while theaters to begin serving drinks.“But ums integrating upscale cafés into he city’s movie theater end of the year, according to its at- watching is a departure from a the attitude toward alcohol in movie their spaces to help drive revenue,” industry will soon be torney,David Pfeffer.Another large decades-long New York state mora- theaters has changed.” said Shane Davis, head of strategy pouring more than gi- chain is also in the process of trying torium that barred movie theaters and development at restaurant and ant cups of overpriced to get its liquor license, Mr. David from selling alcoholic beverages. Booze, for a happier ending nightlife consultancy SKH Realty. soda. A cinema chain Pfeffer said. “It used to be that people didn’t ap- Owners of cinemas are banking “Now there’s an opportunity to have Twith a dozen outposts in the city is Meanwhile, Alamo Drafthouse prove of the idea of drinking in a dark that booze will both enhance the en- a few drinks and have a heightened experience at the movies, and that might open up NUMBER900 OF that space to a SEATS in an new demo- Alamo Drafthouse graphic of indi- Cinema proposed viduals.” for downtown Williams- Brooklyn burg’s Nite- hawk Cinema became the first DECLINE-5% last theater in the year in box-office city to win a revenue at movie liquor license,in theaters in North 2011. That was America, to $10.4 when Mr. Pfef- billion. fer, who repre- sents the theater, won a state leg- Adam Benesch & islative change allowing movie Jon Zerivitz theaters to qualify as restaurants— CO-FOUNDERS UNION CRAFT BREWING and gain the same ability to sell al- cohol—so long as they serve food and have what regulators consider to be tables. Tray bien Nitehawk installed small tables Pouring everything at its seats and offers dinner service and custom cocktails “curated” to the movies it screens. But replicat- ing Nitehawk’s setup in a conven- into a dream. tional theater is a costly prospect for most established chains. Instead, some are finding cost-effective ways to adapt to the new state rules that literally lower the bar for offering bar service. Mr.Pfeffer said the cinema chain Understanding with a dozen locations in the city is tackling its logistical hurdles by in- stalling small folding trays, similar what’s important. to those on commercial airplanes, rather than tables. It received a pre- liminary opinion from the State Liquor Authority late last year that skimpier eating surfaces would pass muster, and now plans to offer food The founders of Union Craft Brewing came to us in 2012 with little more than an interesting idea and a passion for craft beer. like mac-and-cheese to accompany a full alcoholic-drink menu. The Together, we identified what needed to be done to get their business off the ground – and their beer into glasses. We’ve since chain,which Mr.Pfeffer declined to name, has not yet submitted its ap- helped them grow to employ a staff of 15. And their dreams are only getting bigger. Our eagerness to help businesses like plication for a liquor license,but he’s Union Craft Brewing is why M&T’s a top SBA lender1 in the nation and why we’ve been recognized by Greenwich Associates optimistic. Mr. Pfeffer noted that the oth- for excellence in small business banking.2 Find more of Union Craft Brewing’s story at mtb.com/businessbanking. er large chain he is working with seeks to meet the state’s table re- quirement with an even smaller tray system that will be attached to a seat’s drink holder. “Once you start chipping away at the rule,” he said, “it crumbles, and it’s gone eventually.” 

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sive,” he said, noting that during his Riverdale school seven years at the school, the num- ber of children of color has grown Continued from Page 3 Horace Mann—the aggregate im- from roughly 15% of the student vate schools in the city, and that is pact is that much greater. Throw in body to double that in the class that a point of pride in the Bronx,” said two small local colleges, Manhattan will enter in September. Harrie Bakst, a partner in a sports- and Mount St. Vincent, and the Fueling that shift, the portion of philanthropy marketing group who neighborhood has a humming those receiving financial aid has grew up in the area and was a 2003 private-education dynamo that of- swollen to 22%, at a cost of just over graduate of the school,where class- ficials point out is Riverdale’s $8 million a year out of a total school es run from pre-K through 12th biggest employer. It generates jobs budget of $53 million. In the grade. not just for teachers and administra- process, though, RCS has increased tors, but also bus drivers, cooks, the number of students from the Schools stoke home sales landscapers, Bronx to 11%, relatively few of While many in the neighbor- painters, whom hail from the affluent hood complain about all the buses, plumbers and 1,140 precincts of Riverdale itself. To SUVs and cars the school draws to others. NUMBER of RCS reach out to the borough’s less- students, pre-K its hilly, winding streets, especially What frus- through Grade 12 privileged majority, the school the number of parents whose autos trates some stages an annual recruiting day every erik ipsen block residents’driveways twice dai- people is that November at the Bronx Museum of BIG MOMENT ON CAMPUS: Riverdale Country School, among the most expensive prep schools ly, most of those in Riverdale can for all their size $45.6K Art on the Grand Concourse. in the U.S., plans three big construction projects, including a $25 million swimming center. thank the institution for what it and prestige, ANNUAL And in a borough that suffers the contributes to their property values the schools TUITION/FEES city’s highest asthma rates, the (all grades) by drawing a wider circle of buyers. cannot do school enlisted its students in help- time,it was the third-largest [array] in time, the biggest construction effort “As soon as they get their kids more to boost ing to calculate its carbon foot- all of the Bronx,” said David Pat- at the school in more than a decade, into schools,people move up here all their borough. 27.5 print—3,062 metric tons of carbon- naude, the school’s director of plant which he will oversee,has some peo- the time to be close to them,” said Dominic Ran- TOTAL ACRES on two dioxide emissions—in 2009.Today, and sustainability. ple worried. Bert Trebach,who founded a name- dolph, the campuses it has been cut back by nearly a third. Going forward, Mr. Randolph “Every 15 years or so,someone de- sake real estate brokerage 45 years head of RCS, hopes to find more ways to interact velops an edifice complex, and the ago in Riverdale—a market where conceded that institutions such as An ‘edifice complex’ in works? with his borough. “How we can other institutions have to follow up one house sold for $5 million not his that charge almost $46,000 a To get to that point, the school maximize our value as an economic with their own new building pro- long ago and where even an attached year for tuition, and whose alumni converted many of its heating plants driver is an interesting question,” he grams,” said Mr. Moerdler, who not- townhouse down along the Hudson include Carly Simon—not to men- to natural gas from No. 2 heating oil said. He wonders if the school’s ed that Horace Mann and Fieldston is on the market for $1.5 million. tion John F. Kennedy and Robert and installed more efficient LEDs classrooms could be used off-hours could be next.Nonetheless,he point- And because RCS is one of three F.Kennedy—are, by definition, ex- and a solar array on the roof of its the- for courses in such hot new fields as ed out that his Community Board 8 schools of similar size in the area— clusive. ater that is capable of generating 32 coding, drawing students from approved RCS’s plan without a sin- the other two being Fieldston and “We are trying to be more inclu- kilowatts of power an hour. “At the across the borough. In the mean- gle dissenting vote. Ⅲ

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The trouble with taxis Rance Crain editor in chief publisher, vp Jill R. Kaplan axi medallions were the surest bet in bailout would be justified, he added, because he’d paid the EDITORIAL business for more than seven decades. city $300 million at medallion auctions over the years. executive editor Jeremy Smerd assistant managing editors Barbara Benson, With their supply limited and a seemingly The city is facing some tricky issues as the Ubers of the Erik Engquist senior news producer Amanda Fung endless number of New Yorkers hailing world disrupt the taxi industry, but the Freidman situation is copy desk chief Steve Noveck rides, the value of medallions kept going not one of them.The public-policy case for a bailout is weak, art director Carolyn McClain staff photographer Buck Ennis up. Even as the purchase price crossed the because foreclosures on 87 (or more) of the city’s 13,000- senior reporters Aaron Elstein, Matthew Flamm, $1 million threshold a couple of years ago, plus medallions would not strand travelers on the streets. Daniel Geiger, Adrianne Pasquarelli reporters Joe Anuta, Andrew J. Hawkins, medallions looked like a good investment, and purchases Not only could foreclosed medallions still be used, but Uber Jonathan LaMantia could be financed at low interest rates because defaults on expects to double its local fleet of 14,000 drivers this year— news producer Emily Laermer T editorial intern Carly Apar medallion loans were so rare. and its rivals are scaling up as well. editor at large Glenn Coleman columnist Greg David That’s changing. Taxis collected 5% less money from The moral case is even weaker. It’s not the contributing editors Tom Acitelli, riders in December than in the same month a year earlier, government’s job to Theresa Agovino, Paul Bennett, Erik Ipsen, Elizabeth MacBride, Judith Messina, Elaine Pofeldt, and medallion owners have had to reduce lease prices to Disruption of an guarantee that Miriam Kreinin Souccar, Cara S. Trager attract drivers who, along with riders, have been turning businesses don’t fail. ADVERTISING to app-based car services such as Uber and Lyft and to industry doesn’t If Mr. Freidman advertising director Joanna Harp senior account managers green cabs in the outer boroughs. 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TUCKER REED they still exist. These are amenities that students, residents and workers alike would celebrate. The good news is that the de Blasio Make Brooklyn a administration understands this.To sup- Break Away... port this growth and investment,the city last fall collaborated with the Downtown college (down)town Brooklyn Partnership and academic in- stitutions to launch the Downtown and make your business better Brooklyn Higher Education Consor- owntown Brooklyn doesn’t have a quad or a tium.The primary aim is to connect local football stadium.There’s no Greek row. Streets students with local jobs, which is a criti- cal first step in establishing downtown are busy before 10 a.m. on weekends. In Madi- Brooklyn as a place where college stu- son,Cambridge and Ann Arbor,they’re not. dents can afford to live and will want to But creating a college town is about more remain after graduating—a win for the than replicating these traditional locales. Downtown Brook- institutions, the district and the students D themselves. lyn’s resurgence and thriving real estate market make it ripe for With the administration behind a new kind of college town to grow there. this push, and our close-knit com- munity of local academic institu- Institutions of higher education need only to look across the river, to tions eager to build on the district’s own millions of square feet of un- New York University. Once largely success, the stars are aligned. The built development rights in the area. considered a commuter school, playbook is straightforward:Couple It’s time to bring those properties to NYU changed its approach and took institutional strength with an ad- Industries served: life. The institutions should lever- advantage of its location and under- vantageous location to create a Financial Services . Manufacturing & Distribution . Technology age private investment to transform utilized real estate assets to cultivate buzzing campus destination for stu- 1RWIRU3URÀW . Retail . Construction . Architecture & Engineering their underutilized real estate into a campus environment attractive to dents, jobs, businesses and afford- Real Estate . Healthcare . Transportation & Shipping first-rate facilities that support their students and businesses alike. This able student housing. Media, Entertainment & Telecommunications academic and housing needs. recognition and subsequent shift in In other words, build a new kind It’s a winning strategy in several approach played an important role in of college town,one that strategical- ways. First, it would lift the institu- establishing the school as one of ly capitalizes on Brooklyn’s success 488 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 50 Jericho Quadrangle, Jericho, NY 11753 tions themselves. Research shows America’s premier universities. to create something unique—and a 10 Esquire Road, New City, NY 10956 that student housing diversifies a But academic investment isn’t model for lifting central business www.grassicpas.com school’s student body and increases just good for schools. It’s good for districts and academic institutions retention and graduation rates. Fur- the district as a whole. Adding stu- together that could be replicated ther, it fosters a sense of community dents fosters business growth, espe- across the country. That’s a goal among students and an affinity for cially with 20,000 more residents worth pursuing. their alma mater—increasing expected to arrive during the next chances that they’ll give back later on. three years: more restaurants, bars, Tucker Reed is president of the Downtown Downtown Brooklyn schools coffee shops—even bookstores, if Brooklyn Partnership.

BUSINESS BREAKFAST FORUM: for Republicans, some Democrats CORPORATE MEMBERS and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. U.S. At- Skelos probe poses torney Preet Bharara appears prima- rily interested in corrupt politicians, THANK YOU but at some point he could turn his risks for others, too attention to those who enable the ac- FOR YOUR SUPPORT tivities that he has zeroed in on. New York’s real estate establishment. he details of the U.S. attorney’s investigation into It is important to remember that Mr. Anheuser-Busch Global Strategy Group longtime Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Cuomo reportedly first moved to Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Kasirer Consulting, LLC take greater control of the Moreland revealed by The New York Times, raise questions Commission when it decided to Cablevision Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP that go far beyond the issue of whether the state’s probe campaign contributions by Capalino+Company Nicholas & Lence real estate interests. No business top Republican will be indicted. CUNY Communications, LLC First,the caveats.No one knows whether Mr.Skelos will even group has done more to assist Mr. T Skelos;its campaign contributions to Con Edison Tonio Burgos & Associates, Inc. be charged, much less whether he’ll be convicted or exonerated. candidates in the last election were The indictment of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver re- the most important factor in his abil- ity to recapture control of the state mains unproved, and the judge han- Senate. At some point, the fallout dling that case has criticized the U.S. from the Albany scandals could have attorney’s conduct. Nevertheless, an impact on the industry’s clout.For ever since the Times began digging up example, it could lead to outlawing the behind-the-scenes struggles of contributions from LLCs—the in- the governor’s anti-corruption More- dustry’s favorite vehicle. land Commission, the stories have Mr. Cuomo as the real target. The consistently proven to be correct. U.S. attorney is reportedly investi- Immediate ramifications.The time- gating whether Mr. Cuomo’s deci- line of the grand jury’s review of the sion in March 2013 to abruptly shut Skelos case is unclear, but an indict- down the Moreland Commission ment handed down before the end (so that he could get a budget passed of the legislative session in June on his terms) was in itself a criminal could derail compromises on a long GREG DAVID act. Insiders can’t believe such a po- list of pending issues that begins litical decision could be illegal. But with rent regulation and ends with isn’t Mr. Bharara following the clas- minimum-wage increases. Mr. Ske- he or she would certainly be in a sic prosecutorial playbook of mov- los would almost certainly have to weak position. ing up the chain? step down from his post, as Mr. Sil- Glenwood Management. Again at One thing is clear:When the More- Photo Credit: Buck Ennis ver did,even if he remains in the leg- the center of an alleged corruption land Commission was disbanded,no islature and preserves the Republi- case is the real estate company one expected it would be the begin- For membership information, contact Courtney Williams can majority. His would-be owned by Leonard Litwin, the most ning, not the end, of the latest chap- at (212) 210-0257 or [email protected]. successor as leader is a mystery, and prolific source of campaign money ter of the Albany corruption story.

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BANKING INSIDE The Lists New York area’s largest commercial banks and largest thrifts PAGES 13, 14 ‘The days of either getting a bank loan or using a credit card appear to be over’ REPORT —Chris McDonnell, managing director, Greenwich Associates, Page 12

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Financial-services giants be at fault by not properly vetting consumers Morgan Chase’s defenses last summer and not just to banks.In a survey of consumers who during the Apple Pay setup process, which in- stole information on 76 million customers. had been victimized by fraudulent online look to gain upper hand volves loading a customer’s credit-card info Security consultancy Kaspersky Lab in Febru- transactions,one in four indicated they did not into Apple’s mobile-wallet iPhone app.Crim- ary revealed it is tracking a crime ring— recoup any of their money.Shareholders could in an escalating arms race inals, armed with stolen Social Security num- dubbed Carbanak—that has managed to steal be at risk as well,if an attack is large enough to with gangs of cybercriminals bers, have been able to load other people’s $1 billion from 100 banks in about two years. eat into corporate profits. Some experts wor- credit cards onto their own iPhones. To stay ahead of “threat actors,” banks are ry about a doomsday scenario, in which a Bank executives claim they’re not at fault.A constantly honing their defense tactics.But fi- mega-attack cripples one or more banks. As BY JOHN GOFF Citigroup spokesman said its nancial institutions are now with the financial crisis in 2008, taxpayers authentication measures for facing a tougher foe than could get stuck with the bill. When Apple Inc. unveiled its much- customers looking to load pranksters and hacktivists. Facing increasingly sophisticated at- anticipated Apple Pay service last September, cards onto Apple Pay are “im- Organized crime has gotten tacks—and more of them—big banks are executives at businesses with skin in the game plemented appropriately.” $1B into the game. And it’s spending big on network security. Wells Far- heaped praise on the mobile-payment system. Either way, the situation AMOUNT ONE CRIME RING is brought friends: cybercrimi- go is said to have boosted its security staff by Marianne Lake, chief financial officer at Ap- at Apple Pay is more bad estimated to have stolen nals with extensive military 50%.Citi’s IT-security budget reportedly tops ple Pay partner JPMorgan Chase & Co., news from the virtual front from 100 banks during the backgrounds in defending $300 million. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon dubbed the service “the future.” Deborah for large banks. Financial in- past two years (and attacking) sensitive net- said his company will double its $250 million Hopkins, chief innovation officer at Citi- stitutions are now routinely works. “The underground in security spending over the next four years. group, another partner, said Apple Pay could the subject of denial-of-serv- ecosystem for crime has be- “We have to be vigilant,” Mr. Dimon recently take mobile payments “to a new level.” ice attacks, including one come more developed,” said stated, adding that cybersecurity issues “will Apple and its banking partners have hit a that took down the websites Chris Doggett,managing di- happen for a long time.” snag on the way up,however.The incidence of of Citi, Bank of America and 76M rector of Kaspersky Lab Despite the supersize budgets, global fraud at Apple Pay is thought to be unusually Wells Fargo, among others. NUMBER OF JPM CUSTOMERS North America. banks’ losses from cyberattacks jumped by high. The tech giant denies the claims, yet it Some intrusions have been whose account information These sorts of virtual 24% last year, according to audit firm PwC. also has suggested that credit-card issuers may costlier. Hackers got past JP- was stolen last summer thefts pose real threats—and See BANKERS on Page 12

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REPORT BANKING MEAT AND GREET: Terrance Broys, CFO of London Meat Co., spoke with a half- Loans to small businesses dozen banks to secure the best possible loan terms for the meatpacking jump—first time since 2010 district company.

as one with $5 million in revenue or As recent Federal Reserve sur- Banks loosen their less but sometimes up to $20 mil- veys have indicated,banks have loos- lending standards as lion—to find the best choice. ened lending standards as the econ- The best news is that banks, al- omy improves and the financial crisis economy improves ways the least expensive option, recedes into memory. Capital One, and crisis era fades want to put money to work. for example,now offers no-doc loans Last year, banks’ small-business for $50,000 and less to well- loans jumped for the first time since qualified small-business borrowers. BY HILARY JOHNSON 2010, by $12 billion, according to “The environment is very com- data from Sageworks Bank Infor- petitive in New York, particularly for Terrance Broys is breathing easier. mation.And some of the most active established small businesses,” Keri The chief financial officer of Lon- institutions in this space are ubiqui- Gohman, head of small-business don Meat Co., a restaurant supplier tous in the city:Wells Fargo,JPMor- banking at Capital One, wrote in an

in the meatpacking district, recent- gan Chase and Bank of America. email. “Now is a great time for small buck ennis ly set up a $1.5 million revolving line Smaller community banks are do- businesses to shop for a loan product.” of credit, at 2.66%, and a $582,000, ing their part, too. Local firms Valley Still, as analysts often point out, rower but recommends another op- ital, tend to offer pricier loans, but 60-month term loan at 3.75%, to National Bank and Astoria Federal banks, especially the largest, have a tion: a trusted nonbank lender, for even here there are many options. pay down pricier prior debt. Savings Bank earn high satisfaction scalability problem when it comes to example, or a community develop- Though most loans are very Reflecting on the process, Mr. scores in Greenwich Associates’ an- significantly expanding their small- ment financial institution (CDFI). expensive, some lenders, such as Broys said it was much easier to find nual benchmarking research,accord- business loan portfolios. This way,the small business isn’t dis- FundingCircle, offer rates of about good options this time than in 2011, ing to Chris McDonnell, managing “Banks look bad if they’re not in missed, may consider other fee- 6% to some of their best borrowers, when he started with his company director at the Stamford, Conn.- that market, but it’s actually really based bank products and may come along with more generous payment and began considering refinancing. based banking consultancy. hard to scale [up],” said David back for a loan later on in its cycle. terms, noted Ami Kassar, chief exec- “The options have opened up,”he O’Connell,a senior analyst at consul- Bank of America, for example, utive of MultiFunding, a loan bro- said.“There is no shortage of suitors. A 20% spike in loan dollars tancy Aite Group. “The loans are a often steers would-be borrowers kerage and consultancy.“We’ve seen Bankers are willing to lend, but it’s Don Maloney, Northeast region tiny, tiny fraction of middle-market who aren’t a good fit (if, say, they a lot of our practice move in the di- easier and harder to get a deal done manager of Chase Business Bank- loans, but they are almost as labor- haven’t been in business for at least rection of those lenders,” he said. at the same time. It’s easier because ing, noted in an email that JPMor- intensive to underwrite and manage.” two years) to New York Business “That’s a positive evolution in the bankers are hungry, but it’s harder gan made loans to more than 40,000 From that perspective, some of Development Corp., a CDFI, said online lending space over the past because of the due diligence. You’ve small businesses in New York last the splashy small-business loan Joe DeOrio, a regional small- year or so.” got to shop around.” Mr. Broys ulti- year,topping $2.6 billion,which was competitions may be designed business banker manager. “We’re From the viewpoint of small mately chose Citizens Bank, after a 20% jump from 2013. mostly to make banks seem gener- here to improve the financial lives of businesses,the landscape is one dot- working with a half-dozen others,he And Wells Fargo recently added ous,even if they can’t always put that our customers,” he said. ted with positive developments,said said, because of a more flexible loan several business-sales officers in the much money to work. Even Gold- Mr. McDonnell of Greenwich As- structure and terms. New York region, their sole job be- man Sachs, which makes only Banks and nonbanks sociates. “The days of either getting For smaller businesses in New ing to seek out business customers, middle-market loans of $20 million Indeed,nonbank lenders are seek- a bank loan or using a credit card ap- York City, with its proliferation of noted Ron Coccaro, a business- to $150 million, has gotten into the ing partnerships with banks, and fi- pear to be over,” he said. financial institutions,as well as non- banking area manager for New York act with its 10,000 Small Business- nancial institutions are responding,in Which means that for the fore- bank lenders and brokers, anyone and Connecticut at Wells Fargo. es Financing Initiative. a kind of “co-opetition”arrangement, seeable future, Terrance Broys will with a will to find capital can find a “We would like to talk to any Then there’s what Mr.O’Connell as Mr. O’Connell of Aite called it. continue to leave his cellphone voice way these days. But the onus is on small business that would like to talk calls the banking “soft no,” in which These lenders, such as OnDeck, mail switched off to avoid calls from the small business—usually defined to us,” Mr. Coccaro said. a banker turns down a would-be bor- Kabbage,Biz2Credit and Can Cap- eager lenders.

Challenge, the company’s charity- Bill Nelson, president and CEO of race series.The intruders ran loose in FS-ISAC, “and the tactics and pro- the network for close to two months. cedures used and what they’re after.” It’s bankers vs. hackers “It’s not a quick smash-and-grab op- It’s also vital to stay ahead of cy- eration,” said Mr. Doggett.“They’re berthieves.“Instead of analyzing yes- Continued from Page 10 for fraudsters to impersonate cus- More apps mean more holes for in it for the long haul.” terday’s attacks,we’re anticipating fu- Such numbers worry regulators. tomers—or worse, bank employees. hackers to sneak through. Indeed, The Carbanak ring has been si- ture threats,”said Mr.Nelson.“We’re Ben Lawsky, head of New York In response, financial institutions some observers wonder if banks are phoning cash out of banks for two doing more predictive analysis.” state’s Department of Financial are said to be ramping up worker jumping the gun with some of their years. Gangsters limit transactions The move underscores the spy- Services,is considering rules requir- training.Some are resorting to com- app launches.“It scares me,”said An- within banks’ internal accounts to versus-spy nature of the battle in cy- ing financial institutions to do more puter simulations to expose employ- drew Hay, director of security re- $10 million to avoid triggering cor- berspace. “Think back to the Cold to ward off denial-of-service at- ees to scams and warn them about search at cloud-delivered security porate warning bells. Yet they also War,” said Mr. Hay. “[Banks] are tacks.“We are concerned that with- the perils of social media. “Compa- firm OpenDNS.“How rigorously are have brazenly sucked out smaller trying to figure out what the other in the next decade … we will expe- nies have to emphasize this during they tested before they’re released?” amounts of loot through compro- side is doing and protect their own rience an Armageddon-type onboarding,” Mr. Klink said. “They Given this welter of banking mised ATMs, dispensing cash at infrastructure and not let them cyberevent that causes a significant need to tell them, ‘We can’t control apps, executives at financial-services predetermined times. know what they know.” disruption in the financial system your Facebook postings, but you companies have bowed to a harsh re- In fact,some bank executives may for a period of time,” Mr. Lawsky need to know [these] things.’ ” ality: Defending the perimeter Competitors collaborate be contemplating a pre-emptive warned in a speech at Columbia against all attacks is impossible. If banks have come in for their strike.According to a Bloomberg re- Law School. Generation Share “It’s an astounding change in as- share of negative press about net- port,U.S.officials met with bank ex- The quickest way into a bank’s Whether consumers heed the sumptions,”said Rick Howard,chief work breaches, experts point out ecutives in February 2013 to discuss computer network is also the sim- advice remains to be seen.“Younger security officer at security specialist that the banking industry is better at cybersecurity.During the meeting,a plest. In late January, Troy, N.Y.- generations are used to sharing a Palo Alto Networks.“Let’s stop try- combating cybercrime than any JPMorgan executive is said to have based Pioneer Savings Bank discov- shocking amount of information,” ing to keep everybody out. Let’s as- other business sector. Part of that is suggested that banks disable servers ered that a thief had stolen a noted Ben Desjardins, director of sume an adversary can get it.” because financial institutions get thought to be involved in denial-of- company laptop containing cus- security solutions at applications se- Security heads at financial insti- more practice. service attacks.JPMorgan never fol- tomer names and Social Security curity specialist Radware Ltd. “It’s tutions are devising new protocols Bank officials are also willing to lowed through on the informal pro- numbers. Consultants say it’s not going to get tougher.” for flagging suspicious transactions. pass on information to rivals about posal, the Bloomberg report said. difficult to get a bank employee to Younger generations are also But detecting thieves who bypass threats.The volume of attacks led fi- Such strikes could violate U.S. divulge a customer’s personal infor- used to doing everything on their firewalls using legitimate creden- nancial institutions to set up an as- law. Security consultants offer an- mation. “It’s the path of least resist- iPhones and tablets. This has led tials is no small task. sociation—the Financial Services other reason for dumping the idea. ance,” explained Luke Klink, advi- banks to crank out scores of banking At JPMorgan Chase—which Information Sharing and Analysis “It’s not advisable for most com- sory services lead at Rook Security apps—with great success. Bank of declined to comment for this arti- Center—that collects data about panies,” says Kasperky’s Mr. Inc. “People are so helpful.” America’s mobile service,with some cle—hackers reportedly broke in by specific attacks on members and Doggett.“You can be picking a fight What’s more,social-media post- 17 million users, is getting 150,000 using employee information gleaned alerts other banks to the danger.“It’s with somebody bigger and smarter ings can provide ample information new signups each month. from the website of the Corporate important to know the actors,” said than you.”

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The Event Space is ideal for a November of 2014, the Nelson family and team The 262-seat auditorium features a platform Digital Sandbox Network variety of corporate, social, nonprofit and arts- returned to Africa to once again be inspired. Traveling stage and is fully equipped with high-definition digital Event Centers related events, including business conferences, 24,752 miles, in six countries over 23 days, their cinema (DCP), 3D and 35mm projection, 26-foot- A 24,000-square-foot, fully wired conference facility press events, fundraisers, and celebrations of all journey and inspiration of art, culture and beauty is wide 2D/3D screens, Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound, the with the capacity for two to 450 people. State-of- kinds. The Theater, located on the lower level, is shared with you and your guests now and every time latest high-and standard-definition video conferencing the-art audio visual services, video conferencing the perfect location for corporate meetings, film you visit Kalahari Resorts and Conventions. capabilities, wireless broadband internet, and Mac/PC and Internet connectivity. screenings and live performances. Address: 250 Kalahari Boulevard compatibilities. Address: 55 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 When combined, HELEN MILLS is uniquely suited to Pocono Manor, PA 18349 Address: 1871 Broadway, New York, NY 10023 Phone: (212) 482-0851 host multi-stage events. Each space offers state-of- Phone: (570) 234-9397 Contact: Julia Pustizzi Phone (646) 273-6100 the-art sound and digital-video projection systems, Contact: Tim Bugas Contact: Jennifer Cucura Email: [email protected] as well as high-speed, wireless Internet. The team at Email: [email protected] Website: www.digitalsandboxnetwork.com Email [email protected] HELEN MILLS completes the experience by offering Website: www.kalahariresorts.com/PA Website nyit.edu/aob Doral Arrowwood catering, décor and entertainment packages for almost The Learning Center every budget as well as on-site management and full- NYC Seminar and Conference 45 minutes north of midtown Manhattan. 369 guest at Con Edison Center rooms, 33 meeting rooms, three restaurants, golf service event planning. 20,000 square feet of meeting space. Auditorium course, indoor and outdoor pool, fitness center, Address: 137-139 West 26 Street, New York, NY 10001 Venue for technical or nontechnical seminars or holds up to 240. Breakout areas, classrooms tennis courts, team building and spa services. Phone: (212) 243-6200 conferences. Days, evenings and weekends. 16 Contact: The Helen Mills Team Address: 975 Anderson Hill Road and hands-on labs. Adjustable lighting and rooms, with catering services available. Email: [email protected] Rye Brook, NY 10573 comprehensive audiovisual capabilities. Address: 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 515 Website: www.helenmills.com Phone: (914) 939-5500 Address: 43-82 Vernon Boulevard New York, NY 10010 Contact: Jack Meehan Kalahari Resorts & Conventions Long Island City, NY 11101 Phone: (800) 326-5494 Phone: (718) 425-6217 Contact: Steven Shapiro or Tod L. Shapiro Email: [email protected] For more than a decade, Kalahari Resorts and Website: www.doralarrowwood.com Contact: Henry Kolenovsky Email: [email protected] Conventions has provided unparalleled hospitality in Email: [email protected] Website: www.nycseminarcenter.com Downtown Conference Center a vacation-style setting. With a sales and catering Website: www.coned.com/tlc Practising Law Institute Situated in New York’s financial district, we feature team that totals more than 400 years of experience, New York City Bar Association 26 purpose-designed meeting rooms for groups we’ve hosted for the best event planners in America Schoolroom seating for 175 in conference center Landmark building with 10 duly appointed conference ranging in size from five to 110 participants. and have a proven ability to consistently increase with adjacent lounge. Remote audiovisual control, rooms, meeting hall seating for 400. Audiovisual Highlights include an 80-seat tiered amphitheater, meeting attendance by more than 20 percent, with multi-media presentation services and sound support services and on-premise catering available. penthouse boardroom, on-site food and beverage an average block pick-up of 108 percent. available. Please call to discuss. Raised dais with Kalahari offers a unique all-under-one-roof Address: 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 eight seats & mics. Presentation can be controlled services, information technology and conference Phone: (212) 382-6637 planning assistance. experience so guests can maximize their time on-site. from lectern or remotely from control booth. Food and Contact: Nicholas A. Marricco, Director beverage services and meeting supplies available. Address: 157 William Street With top-notch meeting spaces, delicious dining of Meeting Services Address: 1177 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10038 options, award winning indoor/outdoor attractions, Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 618-6998 or (877) 322-6338 retail shopping, Spa Kalahari and more, it’s the perfect Website: www.nycbar.org Contact: Mark Kontny, Director of Sales destination for the entire family. Phone: (212) 824-5700 Contact: Jesse Oelbaum, Director; Facilities & Email: [email protected] The appeal of mixing work and play is only NYIT Auditorium on Broadway Website: www.downtownmeetings.com The NYIT Auditorium on Broadway is a state-of- Office Services increasing. We’ve found that when meetings are held Email: [email protected] at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions, it transforms from the-art event space just steps from Columbus Website: www.pli.edu Circle. Convenient to all public transportation, it

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MeetingADVERTISING Planners SUPPLEMENT Guide ELITE EVENTS. VERSATILE VENUES. Contact: Yulia Florinskaya, Catering Sales RESTAURANTS, Manager Email: yfl [email protected] PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS. VENUES and Website: www.charliepalmer.com/aureole- new-york CATERING Bar Americain Bar Americain presents Bobby Flay’s Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Regional American menu in a warm and Center elegant brasserie environment conveniently located in the heart of midtown. Bar Alice Tully Hall is one of the most popular Americain’s Private Dining Room offers and frequently used performance halls on exclusivity and can accommodate from the Lincoln Center campus. The theater fi ve to 50 guests. Adjacent to the PDR, the features upgraded equipment, digital Mezzanine provides sweeping views of the cinema projectors, a built-in fi lm screen, main dining room and is the ideal setting and state-of-the-art production capabilities. for cocktail receptions as well as seated Wood cut from a single African moabi tree dinners. Should your event require a larger envelops the theater which offers ample venue, the entire restaurant is also available leg room, Wi-Fi access, and expanded for your exclusive use. technical opportunities for live streaming. Address: 152 West 52nd Street Soaring to three stories, the glass-enclosed New York, NY 10019 lobbies feature two distinct spaces which Phone: (212) 265-9701 can be repurposed for breakout rooms and Contact: Tracy Michaels, Private Events receptions. Lincoln Center offers a majestic Director and unparalleled experience, the perfect Email: [email protected] backdrop for corporate meetings, awards Website: www.baramericain.com shows, graduations, fi lm screenings, fashion Barbetta shows, orchestral, pop and jazz concerts, A palazzo-like interior and verdant garden lectures, and gala dinners. are available for large receptions. For Address: 1941 Broadway at 65th Street smaller parties, Barbetta offers the patrician New York, NY 10023 Phone: (212) 875-5037 rooms of its landmarked 1874 townhouses. Contact: Venue Sales Team Accommodates from four to 400 guests. Email: [email protected] The spectacular main dining room is Website: yourevent.lincolncenter.org decorated with museum-quality 18th-century Italian antiques, foremost among these the BRAGGING RIGHTS GUARANTEED! American Museum magnifi cent glittering 1775 Piemontese of Natural History TO BOOK YOUR NEXT EVENT, CONTACT 212.465.6106 OR [email protected] chandelier. On the fl oor above, the original More than 40 exhibition halls, showcasing SpecialEvents.TheGarden.com rooms of the Astor-built townhouses some of the greatest treasures and natural have been meticulously restored to their wonders of the world, are available for aristocratic splendor. special events. Address: 321 West 46th Street Address West 79th Street and Central Park New York, NY 10036 West, New York, NY 10024 Phone: (212) 246-9171 Phone: (212) 769-5350 Contact: Suzanna Gardijan Contact: Audrey Isaac, Director of Sales & Email: [email protected] Marketing, Event & Conference Website: www.barbettarestaurant.com Services Email: [email protected] B.B. King Blues Club & Website: www.amnh.org/hostanevent Lucille’s Grill Apella Legendary music and event venue located in the heart of Times Square offering Apella is New York City’s most innovative conception-to-completion event services. meeting and event space, located within Huge built in stage, state-of-the-art sound, The Alexandria Center for Life Science. We lighting and video and wireless capabilities offer 10 thoughtfully designed rooms with we accommodate everything from press contemporary interiors, state–of-the-art conferences and movie premieres to award technology, and expansive East River and city shows, product launches, bar/bat mitzvahs skyline views. Events at Apella are managed by and much more. Backal Management Group and are exclusively Address: 237 West 42 Street catered by Riverpark, a Tom Colicchio New York, NY 10036 Restaurant, and ’wichcraft. Phone: (212) 997-4511 Address: 450 East 29th Street (Between Contact: Colleen Hendricks, Events Sales First Avenue and the East River) Manager OR April Dawn Van Phone: (212) 706-4100 Wagner, Events Sales Manage NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY Contact: Rachel Beloff, Events Manager Group Sales Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] The NYIT Auditorium on Broadway is a state-of-the-art event space just steps from Lincoln Center Website: www.apella.com or [email protected] and Columbus Circle. Convenient to all public transportation, it can accommodate a wide range of Arena Event Space Website: www.bbkingblues.com events, from exclusive screenings to executive presentations, panel discussions to private parties. Available for corporate or private events for The Beacon Theatre 50 – 500 guests. Stage–ready, three16’ For more information, and to find out about our New Client Discount, The Beacon Theatre is a historic three-tiered x 20’ projection screens, HD projectors, Manhattan theatre restored to its original visit nyit.edu/aob or call 1.888.730.4814 wireless microphones, LCD TV’s and an 1929 grandeur. The Beacon provides extensive lighting / sound system. 5,600 an intimate setting for unforgettable square foot venue with an additional 2,000 concerts and special events. This venue is 1871 Broadway, New York, NY - nyit.edu/aob - 1.888.730.4814 - [email protected] square feet of rentable space located perfect for award ceremonies, corporate downstairs from Arena. events, galas, television shows, benefi ts, Address: 135 West 41st Street fundraisers, meetings, product launches and New York, NY 10036 graduations. Phone: (212) 278-0988 Address: Broadway at 74th Street Contact: Gina LaRochelle, Events Director New York, NY Email: [email protected] Phone: (212) 465-6106 Website: www.arenanyc.net Email: [email protected] Aureole Website: www.beacontheatre.com/ specialevents Charlie Palmer’s famed Aureole is a premier wedding destination in New York City. Located Best Buy Theater steps away from Bryant Park in midtown Best Buy Theater is a versatile space for Manhattan, we are an ideal location for corporate meetings and private parties. We weddings, corporate dinners, fundraising can accommodate as few as 150 guests soirées and events of all shapes and sizes. and as many as 2,000. Best Buy Theater Featuring signature Michelin-starred Charlie is 45,000 square feet, featuring two VIP Palmer fare, a superb wine selection, Balconies with lounge seating, an in-house impeccable service, fl awless planning and lighting system and an in-house sound system execution, our sophisticated dining experience by JBL. The Best Buy Theater Marquee is draws clients from around the world. 85-foot-long LED, high defi nition screen, Address: 135 West 42 Street capable of displaying both live and digital video. New York, NY 10036 It is one of the largest marquees on Broadway. Phone: (646) 392-9172 ext. 20 S4 Crain’s New York Business Meeting Planners Guide 2015 fp template.qxd 4/15/2015 3:35 PM Page 1 fp template.qxd 4/16/2015 1:46 PM Page 1

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Best Buy Theater (continued) Contact: Nikki Lazar, Director of Sales most comprehensive art museums in the country, festive and luxurious celebrations. With room for up to Address: 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 Email: [email protected] is an extraordinary venue located in the heart of 35 guests for a seated dinner, its clubhouse style lends Phone: (212) 930-1946 Website: www.bowlmor.com/chelsea-piers Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The Museum’s spaces itself to both semi-private and fully private events. Contact: Alisha Horesh, Director of Sales Bowlmor Lanes— provide stunning, one-of-a-kind backdrops for Charlie Palmer Steak’s convenient midtown location Email: [email protected] private events, including wedding ceremonies and on East 54th Street makes this the perfect location for Website: www.bestbuytheater.com Times Square receptions, cocktail parties, and corporate events. both corporate and social events. Blue Fin You could travel the city and its boroughs for a Address: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11238 Customizable menus highlight a vast range of USDA comprehensive tour of NYC. Or, you could visit Located in the heart of Times Square, enjoy Blue Phone: (718) 501-6408 prime steaks and signature progressive American Charlie Bowlmor Lanes Times Square and travel through Contact: Samantha Strassberg Fin’s wide variety of seafood, sushi and raw bar Palmer fare. Our impressive wine list and classic cocktail seven different bowling lounges, all with their own Email: [email protected] offerings are available for all larger groups. offerings. Blue Fin can accommodate parties of 10 Website: www.brooklynmuseum.org distinctive New York City theme—from Chinatown to Charlie Palmer Steak is also available for closed to 500 guests. Central Park. Sample and savor Bowlmor’s signature Address: 1567 Broadway at 47th Street The Capital Grille Chrysler restaurant events for up to 150 guests. New York, NY 10036 menu, featuring original cocktails and inventive American cuisine that’s served to you laneside— Building Address: 5 East 54th Street, New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 331-0328 Phone: (212) 644-9394 Contact: Special Events Department so you never have to put your party on pause. Conveniently located next to Grand Central Terminal, your guests will marvel at the architecture of our Contact: Katherine Leong, Catering Sales Email: [email protected] Address: 222 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 Director Website: www.bluefi nnyc.com Phone: (212) 680-0012 ext. 1332 Trylon Towers, our elegant Chrysler Room and our Email: [email protected] Contact: Joanna Green, Director of Sales stylish Wine Vault, while enjoying classic steakhouse Blue Water Grill Website: www.charliepalmer.com/charlie- Email: [email protected] fare such as our dry aged porterhouse, creative palmer-steak-ny Host an elegant party at Blue Water Grill’s central Website: www.bowlmor.com/times-square seafood dishes like our citrus glazed salmon and Union Square location with seafood, sushi and raw bar Broad Street Ballroom our award-winning wine list that is sure to please. Charlie Palmer at The Knick offerings. Blue Water Grill can accommodate parties of Boasting views of Times Square, Broadway and The Broad Street Ballroom is the premier event Every private dining room is elegantly appointed 10 to 300 guests. 42nd Street, Charlie Palmer at The Knick is the venue in the Financial District. Adorned with soaring with the warmth of mahogany, the comfort of Address: 31 Union Square West at 16th Street hotel’s signature restaurant serving the Honest thirty foot ceilings, massive mosaic columns and leather and the glow of brass accents. All offer New York, NY 10003 American Cuisine Master Chef and Michelin-starred architectural details, you’ll fi nd charm and warmth you the intimate atmosphere that makes special Phone: (212) 331-0328 gatherings, well, special. restaurateur Chef Palmer created exclusively for The Contact: Special Events Department inside the grand room. Address: 155 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 Knickerbocker. Email: [email protected] Address: 41 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 Phone: (212) 953-2000 Website: www.bluewatergrillnyc.com Phone: (646) 624-2524 Guided by a passion for market-driven ingredients Contact: Jill Dickstein Contact: Donna Bradley, Special Events Manager and vibrant, unexpected fl avors, the seasonally driven Email: [email protected] Bowlmor Lanes— Email: [email protected] breakfast, lunch and dinner menus showcase Palmer’s Website: www.thecapitalgrille.com Chelsea Piers Website: www.broadstreetballroom.com culinary genius with dishes refl ecting the region’s Overlooking the Hudson at Pier 60, Bowlmor Lanes Brooklyn Botanic Garden Carolines on Broadway culinary treasures. An enviable location in the heart of Chelsea Piers was built for work and play. The A unique and versatile events venue ideally situated Times Square and an understated see-and-be-seen Expansive grounds with cherry trees, roses and vibe add to the restaurant’s allure, while chic chainmail 55,000-square-foot facility can accommodate herbs and a Japanese garden. The Palm House in the heart of NYC’s Times Square district. An ideal up to 800 people and features an all-new gravity location for your next daytime meeting, seminar, screens create semi-private dining spaces. is a Beaux Arts-style pavilion and the Atrium is a An adjacent lounge offers a menu of lighter fare, ropes course and interactive laser tag arena, as light-fi lled space overlooking an outdoor terrace and product launch or corporate outing. Full kitchen/staff well as fl oor-to-ceiling video walls and 40 lanes and state-of-the-art audio visual capabilities available and in a nod to the hotel’s legacy as the rumored Cherry Esplanade; both offer audiovisual equipment birthplace of the martini, a custom martini cart serves of blacklight bowling (including a private bowling and catering. for all events. Address: 1626 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 the house martini only in its most classic form. suite). Event-ready audio/video and a signature Address: 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 Phone: (212) 974-7615 Address: The Knickerbocker, 6 Times Square menu of inventive cocktails and cuisine make Phone: (718) 623-7305 Contact: Michael Bressi New York, NY 10036 Bowlmor Chelsea Piers a decidedly different— Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: (212) 204-4980 and always unexpected—workday surprise. Website: www.bbg.org/weddings Website: www.carolines.com Contact: Jennifer Sorrell, Catering Sales Address: Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 (Btw 23rd Street & Brooklyn Museum Manager West Side Hwy) New York, NY 10011 Charlie Palmer Steak Email: [email protected] Phone: (212) 835-2695 ext. 2280 The Brooklyn Museum, one of the largest and The private event room is ideal for mid-sized groups for Website: www.theknickerbocker.ocm

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HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM Chelsea Piers Sports & and social occasions. River views, award- events mc Entertainment Complex winning cuisine and complete catering services by Abigail Kirsch. GRAND BALLROOM Manhattan’s 28-acre sports village features Address: West 23rd Street at the West Side a golf driving range and indoor simulators, Highway, New York, NY 10011 twin indoor ice rinks, rock-climbing walls, Phone: (212) 336-6060 indoor athletic fi elds, team-building Contact: Michael Seaberg, Director of Sales perfect for any event programs, riverside meeting and reception Email: [email protected] spaces, and multiple locations for photo Website: www.piersixty.com shoots, fi lm shoots and media events. On- Dave and Buster’s everything on site site fee based parking. Address: West 23rd Street and the Hudson Dave and Buster’s is a multi-faceted River, New York, NY 10011 entertainment venue featuring creative Phone: (212) 336-6777 cuisine, custom cocktails, and team building Contact: Sherwin Johnson, Director, Special activities along with multiple meeting room Events options complete with state of the art audio Email: [email protected] visual technology. Dave and Buster’s has Website: www.chelseapiers.com/ been newly renovated and features a new specialevents modern sports bar area and revamped City Hall private room. Dave and Buster’s is a one- Located in a landmark 1863 building, City stop-shop for all your needs. Conveniently Hall features classic New York fare for the located in Times Square, Dave and Buster’s 21st century. Accommodates events from is accessible to the majority of transit fi ve to 500. options in NYC. Dave and Buster’s infuses Address: 131 Duane Street, New York, NY fun with the important need of team building 10013 for companies looking to build relationships, Phone: (212) 964-4118 inspire competitiveness and offer the gift of Contact: Keith Wedderburn fun to their employees and clients. Dave and Email: [email protected] Buster’s is the perfect setting for meetings, Website: www.cityhallnewyork.com cocktail events, product launches, and client THE MANHATTAN CENTER Classic Harbor Line and employee appreciation events. Address: 234 West 42nd Street Schooner Adirondack, Schooner America New York, NY 10036 2.0, Yacht Manhattan, Yacht Manhattan II, Phone: (646) 495-1988 212-279-7740 X214 | [email protected] Yacht Kingston Contact: Amy Arcara, Director of Special Classic Harbor Line is a builder and operator Events of classically-inspired yachts and sailing Email: [email protected] ships departing from Chelsea Piers & Website: daveandbuster.com or www.dnbparty.com Mention this issue for preferred packages Brooklyn Bridge Park. These yachts are perfect for entertaining 20-100 guests in David Rubenstein Atrium, 311 WEST 34TH STREET NYC 10001 turn-of-the-century style glamour, but with Lincoln Center modern elegance and comfort. The David Rubenstein Atrium is Lincoln Set sail under 3600 square feet of Center’s newest and most exclusive venue canvas on the Schooner America 2.0 or out due to its limited availability to select clients for cocktails on teak decks with varnished on select dates. The T-shaped, LEED Gold mahogany trim dazzling in the sunset aboard certifi ed space is perfect for meetings, product the Yacht Manhattan. launches, concerts and cocktail parties. A Full catering and bar packages | Sounds 44-foot media wall offers various multi-media system & narration abilities | Corporate team- possibilities for presentations, art installations, builders | Industrial tours | Architecture tours | brand awareness or short fi lms. Two vertical Sailing | Dinners. Pick-up/drop off available in gardens, a fl oor-to-ceiling fountain and custom several locations in the Tri-state area. felt art installation all contribute to the hip, Address: Chelsea Piers, Suite 103 New York, NY 10011 unique fl air of this venue. Contact: Adam Miller or Leon Zachary, Private Address: Broadway at 63rd Street Charter Sales New York, NY 10023 Phone: (212) 627-1825 Phone: (212) 875-5037 Email: [email protected] Contact: Venue Sales Team Website: www.sail-nyc.com Email: [email protected] GRACE, WARMTH Crimson & Rye Frames Bowling Lounge Our relaxed yet sophisticated atmosphere, Located at 550 9th Avenue at 40th Street. artisanal cocktails, soulful music, and Frames is a complete entertainment center AND STYLE boasting 26 bowling lanes, additional private delicious bar fare make Crimson & Rye the VIP lanes, billiards lounge featuring two tables Bar Americain presents Bobby Flay’s Regional American menu in a warm perfect location for your next celebration. With an accessible midtown location, and plenty of intimate seating, two full bars and elegant brasserie environment conveniently located in the heart of comfortable lounge furniture and a festive with specialty sangria and fruit infused vodka, midtown, Bar Americain’s Private Dining Room offers exclusivity and can atmosphere, we look forward to hosting your sophisticated lounge areas, and a high end visual/sound system. Frames is the perfect accommodate from 5 to 50 guests. Adjacent to the PDR, the Mezzanine next event. We can reserve for small groups venue for your corporate or personal events. provides sweeping views of the main dining room and is the ideal setting from 10-20 in our space with a minimum food and beverage spend and host full or Address: 550 9th Avenue at 40th Street for cocktail receptions as well as seated dinners. Should your event require New York, NY 10018 partial restaurant buyouts ranging from Phone: (212) 268-6909 a larger venue, the entire restaurant is also available for your exclusive use. 70-200 guests. Contact: Event Staff Address: 198 East 54th Street Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10022 Website: www.framesnyc.com Phone: (212) 644-9394 Contact: Katherine Leong, Catering Sales The Glasshouses Manager New York City’s premier venue, with Website: www.crimsonandrye.com spectacular views. Cucina & Co. Address: 545 West 25th Street, 21st fl oor New York, NY 10001 Cucina & Company was designed refl ect the Phone: (212) 242-7800 ext. 11 comfortable environment and designed to Email: [email protected] refl ect the mood of an old-style European Website: www.theglasshouses.com kitchen. Conveniently located in the lobby of the MetLife Building adjacent to Gotham Hall Grand Central Terminal. Cucina & Co. A historic landmark bank built in 1924; enjoys easy access from anywhere in and Gotham Hall, in the heart of midtown, is a around the city, as well as on-site parking. monument to style hosting one remarkable Accommodates 100 for seated events and event at a time. Whether a gala or a 150 for cocktail receptions. conference, the experience can best be Address: 200 Park Avenue described as awe-inspiring. Its interior New York, NY 10166 boasts a seven story high, elliptical gold leaf Phone: (212) 949-8248 For more information, contact Tracy Michaels || [email protected] ceiling with opaque stained glass, Corinthian Contact: Sharon Colabello limestone columns, gilded chandelier and www.baramericain.com/privatedining āĆĂƫƫĆĂƫƫđƫƫ ČƫƫāĀĀāĊƫđƫĨĂāĂĩƫĂćĆġĊĈĀāƫđƫ Email: [email protected] sconces, and imported marble fl oors. 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Gotham Hall (continued) yacht and boasts space for as many as 600 Contact: B. Allan Kurtz, Managing Director guests. Learn more about the rest of our Email: [email protected] fleet at hornblowerny.com Website: www.gothamhallevents.com Address: 353 West Street at West Houston Great Performances Street, New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 337-0001 At Great Performances, we believe in Email: [email protected] a collaborative commitment to service, Website: www.hornblowerny.com innovation, and quality. We execute small, intimate gatherings with craftsmanship. We Jake’s at The Knick are the go-to event-planning and catering A cultured coffee shop and artisanal café, company for large events that require the lobby-level Jake’s @ The Knick is a critical devotion to detail. We are a place perfect grab- n-go option for busy visitors. where clients and chefs collaborate; where Custom coffees and espressos by Brooklyn customers and event directors inspire and Roasting Company are complemented with teach each other. We are a company that fresh croissants, pastries, fruits, granolas promotes sustainability through Katchkie and an all-day menu of gourmet flatbreads. Farm, our very own 60-acre organic farm in The venue’s namesake honors John Jacob Columbia County, New York. “Jakey” Astor VI, son of hotel founder John Founded as a waitress service for Jacob Astor IV, born just four months after women in the arts, Great Performances his father died on the Titanic. With its vaulted enhances life’s celebrations with great food barrel ceiling and stylish interiors fashioned in and artful service while maintaining a high textural overtones and Breccia Capraia marble, level of professionalism and grace. Great Jake’s @ The Knick is a welcome addition to Performances is the exclusive caterer for Times Square. some of the city’s most prestigious cultural Address: The Knickerbocker, 6 Times Square institutions, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 204-4980 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sotheby’s, and the Contact: Jennifer Sorrell, Catering Sales Apollo Theater. Manager Address: 304 Hudson Street Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10013 Website: www.theknickerbocker.com Phone: (212) 727-2424 Email: celebratefood@ The Jewish Museum greatperformances.com The Jewish Museum offers outstanding Website: greatperformances.com rental spaces in a Museum Mile landmark. Haven Rooftop Housed in the former Warburg Mansion Haven Rooftop restaurant and lounge, located and designed as a French Gothic chateau, at the award-winning Sanctuary Hotel, is our elegant rooms can accommodate a nothing short of a hot hideaway above the wide range of events. Private viewings of city. The venue features a French-inspired our world class exhibitions enhance all menu created by Chef Madison Belem and an occasions. The opportunity to host an event innovative cocktail menu of fresh libations from at the Museum is reserved for corporate award-winning mixologist Isaac Grillo. Haven and individual supporters beginning at the boasts various dining areas where guests can $10,000 level. Additional rental fees apply. indulge in food and cocktails while enjoying the Address: 1109 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 bright lights of Times Square. Haven features Phone: (212) 423-3216 2,500 square feet of event space, with plush Contact: Ronya Gordon seating areas & intimate cabanas, creating Email: [email protected] a sultry and inviting aesthetic. The space is Website: www.thejewishmuseum.org/Rentals encased by glass walls, allowing guests to enjoy the classic Manhattan skyline, and the Keens Steakhouse year-round rooftop transforms its design with 121 year-old midtown Manhattan landmark the seasons. Haven can accommodate both with four authentic period dining rooms for large-scale events for up to 300 people or business lunches, dinners, receptions, cocktails intimate gatherings for 20, corporate functions, for small or large parties. and more. The Sanctuary Hotel offers full event Address: 72 West 36th Street planning services, in-house catering and state- New York, NY 10018 Phone: (212) 268-5056 of-the-art A/V equipment. Email: [email protected] Address: 132 West 47th street Website: www.keens.com New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 566-9000 Liberty Science Center Contact: Jessica Vivar, Director of Events Are you seeking a uniquely dramatic event & Catering Email: [email protected] space? Liberty Science Center offers Website: www.havenrooftop.com spectacular views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty from several gleaming Highline Ballroom venues. Our glass-enclosed Observation Renovated music and event venue in the Tower is the region’s most impressive space Meatpacking district features minimal for an intimate dinner or ceremony. For industrial decor providing column-free open larger events, our two-story gallery spaces sightlines of the stage from every area and grand lobby accommodate up to 1,200 within the club. Add state-of-the-art PA, guests. Our East Lawn, a magnificent digital sound boards, superb lighting, LED outdoor space overlooking New York City, video projection, flexible space and a huge is perfect for outdoor occasions. We offer stage, the Highline Ballroom is the perfect full-service amenities for meetings, parties, location for any event. and receptions: fully-equipped theaters Address: 431 W 16th Street for multimedia presentations, top-notch New York, NY 10011 entertainment, and elegant decor. Our expert Phone: (212) 414-5994 event staff will deftly handle the planning Contact: Colleen Hendricks, Event Sales and setup for you. Our preferred caterers Manager Email: [email protected] will design a menu to suit your budget and Website: www.highlineballroom.com taste. Contact our Special Events team today to start planning your most memorable event Hornblower Cruises & ever. 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The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers (continued) Lyric Theatre Hammerstein Ballroom and classical Grand Email: [email protected] Website: www.thebigm.com Contact: Michael Seaberg, Director of Sales Broadway theatre and multifunctional event space Ballroom offer 22,000 square feet of flexible Email: [email protected] in the heart of Times Square. Auditorium, two-level space with clear sightlines, state-of-the-art sound Metropolitan Pavilion Website: www.piersixty.com and lighting and unparalleled service. In addition, grand lobby, elegant Apollo Link, rehearsal studios and Metropolitan Pavilion’s adaptable event rooms, Manhattan Center Productions has two TV studios Lucky Strike Manhattan Ambassador Lounge can accommodate groups from desirable location, and strong customer service attract and two recording studios, both interconnected to 20 to 1,900. clients from all over the U.S. and the world for dinners, Lucky Strike Entertainment is the creator and the ballrooms. Address: 213 West 42rd Street, New York, NY 10036 receptions, meetings, product launches, consumer operator of a variety of entertainment concepts Our flexible space caters to any event including throughout the world that cater to any age, featuring Phone: (212) 556-4717 events, fashion shows, exhibitions, and more. Contact: Sue Barsoum conferences, product launches, tradeshows, television premium bowling, restaurants, bars, live music, The main hall (30,000 sq. ft.) can accommodate up Email: [email protected] awards programs, commercials, fashion shows, and to 1,500+ people and features polished oak floors and dance clubs, billiards and game rooms. Lucky Website: www.lyricbroadway.com fundraisers. Strike has been universally recognized in the media original 19th-century architectural highlights. It can be Madison Square Garden Address: 311 West 34th Street as the leading brand in the bowling category. New York, NY 10001 subdivided into the North Pavilion (13,000 sq. ft.) and With state-of-the-art private and semi-private As the World’s Most Famous Arena, there’s no Phone: (212) 279-7740 ext. 214 the South Pavilion (17,000 sq. ft.) to accommodate function rooms, Lucky Strike has hosted countless debating that history happens! Celebrated athletes, Contact: Jessica Rothstein Berman, CMP, smaller events. The North Pavilion’s lobby (110 West 19th entertainment and sports celebrities, thousands of musicians, performers – presidents and popes Director of Sales & Marketing Street) blends vintage and modern elements. The South corporate and private events and has contributed to – are all part of our historic family of guests. Email: [email protected] Pavilion’s spacious lobby (125 West 18th Street) features hundreds of charities. Lucky Strike Entertainment Beyond our 19,500 seat arena, Madison Square Website: www.mceventsnyc.com a contemporary style. was founded in 2003 by Steven and Gillian Foster Garden offers a variety of spaces to accommodate Meadowlands Racing and Three additional event rooms of 10,000 sq. ft. and Kevin Troy, with the opening of Lucky Strike in corporate events, galas, concerts, TV shows, Entertainment each are The Suite, Gallery, and The Level. Each can the heart of Hollywood. benefits, award ceremonies and more! accommodate a maximum of 280 or 300 people and Address: 624-660 West 42nd Street Address: 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001 Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment is a state-of- offers a unique variation on the quintessential NYC New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 465-6106 the-art facility that features everything from live racing loft style. A broad, late-19th-century, iron staircase Phone: (646) 829-0170 Email: [email protected] to world class dining experiences. Our Special Events connects the Gallery and The Level, so each can be Contact: Jodi Reynolds, Director of Sales Website: www.thegarden.com/specialevents Department, managed by Ark Restaurants, prides itself used alone or in combination for a single event. Email: [email protected] Maloney & Porcelli on its professionalism and experience. We will fashion State-of-the-art audio, video, and entertainment Website: www.bowlluckystrike.com your party into an extraordinary event within any of our Skylight Room: 1,800 square feet, complete with a technology are available. Additional amenities include Luna Park NYC various venues. extensive electrical distribution, WiFi, coat check fireplace, 3 skylights, a 25 foot cherry wood bar, a baby Guests can bring the action and vitality of all of their Named after an iconic piece of Coney Island’s facilities, catering preparation rooms, and a range grand piano, and a private events chef and kitchen. favorite live sporting events in the upscale and vibrant history, Luna Park is the largest amusement park in of event production services. We can assist you Accommodates up to 128 seats or 175 for a Victory Sports Bar. For a more private setting our New York City with a heritage stretching back over with anything from booking blocks of hotel rooms to cocktail reception. Skybox Suites overlook the track and offer a true VIP 130 years. Luna Park provides New Yorkers and obtaining recommended vendors for your event. Mahogany Room: This elegantly appointed private experience. Our breathtaking rooftop, Victory Terrace, tourists the opportunity to experience family-friendly Our location offers subway access right on the dining room is tucked away behind our wine vault to offers amazing views of the NYC skyline and racing events and thrill rides including the historic Cyclone corner, as well as proximity to many tech companies provide a clubby retreat for your guests. action. Additional venues include the bright and airy Roller Coaster, the new Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, and Chelsea’s vibrant retail, dining, and nightlife scene. Accommodates up to 30 seats or 40 for a cocktail Lounge, intimate Gallery, elegant Trotters Owner’s Club Luna 360 and more. In close proximity to the beach, reception. Address: 125 West 18th Street and much more. With a variety of options to offer, New York, NY 10011 boardwalk and other top attractions, Luna Park Address: 37 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022 Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment is the perfect Phone: (212) 463-0071 offers over 40 games, rides and roller coasters Phone: (212) 360-0438 venue for any type of experience. Contact: Shelly Taggar, VP of Sales & and is a fun-filled destination that those of any age Contact: Denise Bryant We look forward to planning your next event, big Creative Services will enjoy. For more information about Luna Park, Email: [email protected] or small, corporate or social. Whatever your needs, Email: [email protected] including a full list of rides, entertainment and more, Website: www.maloneyandporcelli.com we hope to have the opportunity of planning your next Website: www.metropolitanevents.com please visit www.LunaParkNYC.com Manhattan Center Events Address: 1000 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11224 special event. 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Address: 7 West 51st Street, New York, NY 10019 elements of exposed steel original to the 1920 Phone: (212) 708-9840 spaces range from the Trustees Room, which Phone: (646) 307-7910 structure, and versatile white walls. Other features Contact: Corporate Entertaining accommodates 125 guests, to Astor Hall, which Contact: Lori McGuinness or Carly Safarian include 11- to 13-foot ceiling heights, sunny south- Email: [email protected] accommodates up to 750 guests. The auditorium Email [email protected]; facing views, a high-visibility location, and easy street- Website: www.moma.org/entertaining facility seats 177. [email protected] grade access for loading and unloading. National Museum of the Address: Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street Website: www.nyysteak.com The second floor event space provides neutral white New York, NY 10018 walls offset by a band of exposed brick. The 12,000 American Indian-Smithsonian Phone: (212) 930-0730 Oceanbleu at The Ocean Resort square-foot space offers a private lobby (637 West 46th Institution Contact: Events Department at Bath & Tennis Street), direct freight elevator access, 10- to 13-foot Exquisite historical landmark offers museum’s Email: [email protected] Website: www.nypl.org/spacerental The Ocean Resort at Bath & Tennis in Westhampton ceiling heights, and direct sunlight through south-facing corporate members enriched cultural and artistic Beach, NY is an oceanfront retreat overlooking windows. Additional amenities include nearby parking, surroundings with several flexible spaces for Nick & Stef’s Steakhouse 500 feet of private beach. With over 100 guest catering prep rooms, separate lobbies, Wi-Fi, and a meetings or events. Dinners or theater style seating Adjacent to Madison Square Garden, Nick & Stef’s rooms, meeting and conference facilities, a grand state-of-the-art lighting, A/V, and sound installation. A for up to 400. Receptions for up to 1,200. Steakhouse builds on and departs from steakhouse ballroom, and a slew of amenities, including heated full range of event production services and unwavering Address: 1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004 standards. An ideal location for pre- and post-game outdoor pool, tennis, spa, salon and fitness center, dedication to customer service are on offer, born of Phone: (212) 514-3820 the Ocean Resort at Bath & Tennis is only 80 miles Contact: Trey Moynihan, Manager, Corporate parties, dinner receptions year-round or other social more than a decade of special-event experience at events, this sleek, contemporary steakhouse features from NYC. It is the perfect destination for inspired Metropolitan Pavilion in the Chelsea scene. Membership & Special Events Email: [email protected] great steak, the freshest seafood and inventive meetings, distinctive conferences, and tranquil Address: 639 West 46th Street motivation. The Resort’s management team is New York, NY 10036 Website: www.americanindian.si.edu/ signature sides. Nick & Stef’s sophisticated bar Phone: (212) 463-0071 specialevents provides a welcoming reception for celebrations of all eager to design a conference package to meet Contact: Shelly Taggar, VP of Sales Nautical Holidays kinds. Main Dining Room: 125-250; Side Annex: 20- your group’s needs and budget. Robbins Wolfe & Creative Services 25 guests; Bar & Lounge: 50-75 guests. Eventeurs, the Resort’s exclusive caterer, will design Email: [email protected] Specializing in nautically inspired corporate events a complementary menu package to your taste Website: www.metropolitanevents.com aboard the region’s finest vessels, in New York, New Address: Madison Square Garden and preference. Mid-week and select weekend Jersey and Connecticut. 9 Penn Plaza at West 33rd Street and Michael Jordan’s The Steak conference dates still available for the 2015 season. Address: 7 Spezzano Drive, Riverside, CT 06878 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001 Try something new this year, and take your meeting House N.Y.C. Phone: (203) 637-0270 Phone: (212) 949-8248 to the beach. Contact us today to discuss. Located in Grand Central Terminal on the north Contact: Bob Zampino, Manager Contact: Sharon Colabello Address: 231 Dune Road Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 and west balconies, with views overlooking the Website: www.nauticalholidays.com Website: www.patinagroup.com famous Beaux-Arts terminal, Michael Jordan’s pays Phone: (631) 288-8878 homage to an era of glamorous train travel, notably New-York Historical Society NYY Steak Contact: William Cataldo the 20th Century Limited, and has a design and Email: [email protected] Overlooking Central Park, this historic landmark Located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, NYY Website: www.bathandtennis.com layout reminiscent of a dining car. 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Sky Room Phone: (212) 875-5037 picnic-house Contact: Venue Sales Team Address: 20 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020 New York City’s highest rooftop lounge, with 360° Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers Phone: (212) 332-7606 Email: [email protected] Contact: Ken Palmer, Director, Special Events views of Manhattan Website: yourevent.lincolncenter.org 20,000 square feet of space for corporate and social Address: 330 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018 Email: [email protected] St. Cloud occasions. River views, award-winning cuisine and Website: www.patinagroup.com Phone: (212) 380-1195 complete catering services by Abigail Kirsch. 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The tastefully appointed second floor of the Named for the late-19th century hotel that originally Quality Meats Email: [email protected] occupied the site, St. Cloud is the pinnacle of The Website: www.rosamexicano.com quintessential steakhouse makes a festive setting The warm, industrial décor of Quality Meats draws for private events of all sizes. The sky-lit rooms can Knickerbocker experience, offering a progressive on cues from traditional New York City butcher shops, Rosa Mexicano First Avenue be utilized separately for more intimate events or cocktail menu, craft bottled beers and an upscale, in the use of warm wood, stainless steel, and white Mexican cuisine with semiprivate space available for combined to create an expansive space. seasonally focused small plates menu. Sophisticated marble. The space succeeds in being simultaneously up to 150. Derby Room: Capacity: 26 guests entertainment is an understated yet eclectic mix of rustic, inviting, and luxurious with rich details. Address: 1063 First Avenue at 58th Street For more intimate gatherings, celebrations, or cirque-like, biergarten and speak easy fun, while The Fireplace Room accommodates 40 or 60 for a New York, NY 10022 presentations, Room D has classic, clubby décor. curated music selections set the tone for extraordinary cocktail reception. Phone: (212) 397-0666 ext. 29 Phone: (212) 360-0438 experiences high above the city. The Butcher Room seats 20 for a more intimate Contact: Amira Gertz Contact: Denise Bryant Address: The Knickerbocker, 6 Times Square, gathering. 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Phone: (212) 431-8824 River, devoted to the execution of day meetings. 40 the showplace of the nation! The brilliant splendor Address: 188 Madison Avenue Contact: Operations Manager minutes from Manhattan. Accommodates 30 to 400 of the Hall’s design is perfect at every scale, from New York, NY 10016 Email: [email protected] people. Catering by Abigail Kirsch. the famously exquisite 5,900-seat theater to the Phone: (212) 592-7077 Website: sohosoleil.com Address: 81 Highland Avenue luxurious private apartment, the Roxy Suite. With Contact: Anne Lehmann, Operations Manager Tarrytown, NY 10591 Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Phone: (914) 631-3030 the many lavish spaces it contains, the venue is a Email: [email protected] Lincoln Center Contact: Caitlin Marron brilliant compliment for an event of any size that Website: www.nypl.org The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, a multi-purpose, Email: [email protected] requires a touch of resplendence. The Sea Grill Website: www.abigailkirsch.com intimate meeting and performance venue, is Address: 1260 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10020 Elegant, seafood-focused cuisine in an Adam Phone: (212) 465-6106 beautifully perched on the tenth floor of the Samuel Tender Restaurant & Lounge Tihany-designed dining room, featuring views of The Email: [email protected] B. & David Rose Building where two walls of floor- Tender restaurant and lounge, located within Website: www.radiocity.com/specialevents Rink at Rockefeller Center in winter and The Garden to-ceiling glass and a wraparound terrace offer in summer. Accommodates 150 sitting and 225 the Sanctuary Hotel, is midtown’s most exciting Rock Center Cafe spectacular views of the Hudson River and Lincoln new dining destination. Tender features Modern standing. Private room and patio dining available. Center campus. 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The venue boasts Website: www.algonquinhotel.com 3 distinct rooms created by acclaimed designer corporate functions of all occasions, houses space for of-the-art fi tness room and enjoy free breakfast Josh Held, offering the perfect backdrop for any groups of up to 300 for cocktail receptions and 180 Aloft Manhattan Downtown including Starbucks coffee before heading out for event, large or small. Tender has 2,500 ft of event seated. Overseen by renowned chef Charlie Palmer, Financial District the day. Centrally located among hotels in Times space and features 16, 55” HDTV’s behind one-way Upper Story turns out thoughtful menus, fl awless The Aloft Manhattan Downtown - Financial District Square, New York City, getting here is easy. We’re mirrors, a 110” projection screen, and a private service, and creative ideas for events of all shapes is a hip new hotel where you’ll be close to corporate just across from Port Authority Bus Terminal, dining room complete with 7 HDTV’s, perfect for and sizes. headquarters, Wall Street, and the World Trade minutes from Penn Station and walking distance of Address: D&D Building, 979 Third Avenue presentations or intimate dinners. The Sanctuary Center. We offer easy-breezy access to Big Apple the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Hotel offers full event planning services, in-house 14th Floor, New York, NY 10022 Address: 330 West 40th Street Phone: (212) 644-9394 hotspots via nearby subway lines. Meet & mingle New York, NY 10018 catering and state-of-the-art A/V equipment. 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The space’s interior architecture is Phone (212) 513-0003 New York, NY 10018 views that can accommodate up to 300. Email: [email protected] Phone: (212) 730-6660 Address: 371 Seventh Avenue equally remarkable as the room allows for fl exible Website: www.aloftmanhattandowntown.com Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10001 confi gurations and the last row is a mere 177 Website: www.marriott.com/nyctm feet from the center stage, ensuring an intimate Phone: (212) 563-1800 or (866) AFFINIA The Benjamin experience from every seat in the house. Website: www.affi nia.com/manhattan This luxe Midtown boutique hotel offers 209 total Fairfi eld Inn New York Manhattan Address: 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001 FIFTY NYC, an Affi nia hotel rooms, 97 suites and fi ve meeting rooms totaling Financial Phone: (212) 465-6106 Boasting 251 newly renovated guest rooms and 2,200 square feet. Catering is by Iron Chef Geoffrey The Fairfi eld Inn New York Manhattan Financial hotel Email: [email protected] Zakarian’s The National Website: www.theateratmsg.com/specialevents suites, plus a generously sized Club Room with a features 176 nautical themed guest rooms with fi replace, Fifty NYC can accommodate both intimate Address: 125 East 50th Street comfortable beds draped in soft linen. Our NYC guest Upper Story by Charlie Palmer New York, NY 10022 rooms are spacious and offer functional design for gatherings of 40 and board meetings for 15. Phone: (212) 715-2500 or (888) 4-BENJAMIN Address: 155 East 50th Street business or leisure. Each room offers complimentary Welcome to Upper Story by Charlie Palmer, a Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10022 premier private event destination in Manhattan’s Website: www.thebenjamin.com high-speed Internet access and is available throughout iconic D&D building. With breathtaking city views Phone: (212) 751-5710 or (866) AFFINIA our hotels public space. from its 14th fl oor oversized windows and expansive Email: salescoordinators@affi nia.com Fairfi eld Inn & Suites by Marriott - Address: 161 Front Street, New York, NY 10038 balcony, Upper Story is a luxurious and contemporary Website: www.affi nia.com/fi fty Times Square Phone: (212) 826-0001 setting for your next celebration. With a modern yet Email: [email protected] The Algonquin Hotel, Autograph Fairfi eld Inn & Suites New York Manhattan/ Website: www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/ classic design approach, Upper Story offsets a soft Collection Times Square features 244 rooms and suites nyclm-fairfi eld-inn-new-york- color palette with dark nuances that complement 181 guest rooms, including 25 suites and one in the heart of New York City. Our Times Square manhattan-fi nancial-district both the daytime and nighttime views beyond meeting room. 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Four Points by Sheraton Hyatt Herald Square Midtown - Times Square New York Four Points by Sheraton Midtown - Times The Hyatt Herald Square features 122 Square offers simple, uncluttered design in guestrooms, including one suite. Located each of the 244 guest rooms - plus every on 31st Street, between 5th Avenue and room in the house is non-smoking, to keep Broadway the hotel is a fusion of industrial our air a little clearer. Behind our sleek sophistication and fashion-forward flair, design is the same casual comfort and featuring a free-flowing lobby lounge, a service you’ve come to expect from a Four restaurant and bar, an espresso bar, and a Points by Sheraton hotel. stunning seasonal rooftop bar with views of Address: 326 West 40th Street the Empire State Building and surrounding New York, NY 10018 midtown skyline. The hotel is steps away from Phone: (212) 967-8585 or (800) 368-7764 Madison Square Garden, the Empire State Email: [email protected] Building, shopping on 5th Avenue, and Times Website: www.fourpointstimessquare.com Square. Offering complimentary wireless Four Points Manhattan internet, the hotel is ideal for the business Chelsea traveler or the leisure guest. Come experience Let Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan this unique property, providing exceptional Chelsea be your comfort and familiarity in service and bring your furry friend along – bustling Chelsea. Take advantage of our free we are pet friendly! $219 - $899 Address: 30 West 31st Street Internet. Whether you’re staying for business New York, NY 10001 or pleasure, for one day or a week, we have Phone: (212) 330-1234 what you’re looking for. Email: [email protected] Address: 160 West 25th Street Website: heraldsquare.hyatt.com New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 627-1888 Hyatt Place New York Contact: Nicole Barr Midtown South Email: [email protected] Website: fourpoints.com/manhattan The Hyatt Place New York Midtown South hotel features 185 guestrooms in the Four Seasons Hotel, heart of Midtown Manhattan. Offering FALL 2015 DATES AVAILABLE New York complimentary breakfast and wireless 368 guest rooms, 9 meeting rooms internet, our midtown Manhattan hotel is Address: 57 East 57th Street perfect for business traveler & families, Contact Alisha Horesh New York, NY 10022 looking to explore the Big Apple. We Phone: (212) 758-5700 or (800) 487-3769 are located within walking distance to 212-930-1946 Email: [email protected] Madison Square Garden, the Empire State [email protected] Website: www.fourseasons.com/newyork Building, shopping on 5th Avenue, and Grand Hyatt New York Times Square. Come and unwind in our spacious guestrooms, featuring the Hyatt 1,306 guest rooms and 60,000 square feet Grand Bed™, 42” HDTV and Hyatt Plug of meeting space Address: 109 East 42nd Street at Grand Panel media center. Join us at our coffee Central Terminal, New York, NY 10017 to cocktails bar, for a drink or hot beverage Phone: (212) 883-1234 or (800) 233-1234 and order something from our 24/7 Gallery Contact: Lauren Schubert menu. $149-$699 Email: [email protected] Address: 52 West 36th Street Website: www.grandnewyork.hyatt.com New York, NY 10018 Phone: (212) 239-9100 Hilton Times Square Email: [email protected] 460 brand-new guest rooms, nine meeting Website: newyorkmidtown.place.hyatt.com rooms, 5500 square feet of event space., InterContinental New York From $179 Address: 234 West 42nd Street Barclay Hotel New York, NY 10036 685 Guest rooms, 18 meeting rooms Phone: (212) 840-8222 or (800) HILTONS Address: 111 East 48th Street Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10017 Website: www.timessquare.hilton.com Phone: (212) 755-5900 Email: [email protected] Holiday Inn 31st Street- Website: www.intercontinental.com/newyork Midtown Manhattan InterContinental New York 122 rooms including two Suites Restaurant and bar, along with a seasonal rooftop bar Times Square with spectacular views of the Empire State The InterContinental New York Times Square Building, $999 rises 36 stories above the heart of the PLANNING HAS ITS PERKS Address: 30-32 West 31st Street world famous Times Square district – the AT W HOBOKEN New York, NY 10001 epicenter of the theatre, dining, media and Phone: (212) 695-7401 business worlds. 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Library Hotel in Westhampton Beach, NY. The facility 60 guest rooms, 3 meeting rooms has a wide range of amenities and is ideal Address: 299 Madison Avenue at 41st Street for sales meetings, conferences, corporate New York, NY 10017 retreats and vacations. With 100 + rooms Phone: (212) 983-4500 and oceanfront suites, amenities include Email: [email protected] meeting rooms and spaces, a 500 foot ocean Website: www.libraryhotel.com beach, heated pool, private marina, cabins Lucerne Hotel and cabanas, five har-tru tennis courts, spa, salon and gym. On premises for events and 201 guest rooms and suites, 1,000 square dining in our newly renovated ballroom is the feet of meeting space Oceanbleu restaurant and premier caterer, Address: 201 West 79th Street New York, NY 10024 Robbins Wolfe. The resort’s infrastructure, Phone: (212) 875-1000 or (800) 492-8122 rooms, decking and furniture have all been Email: [email protected] recently updated. Our oceanfront location Website: www.thelucernehotel.com and attentive staff await your arrival. Address: 231 Dune Road The London NYC Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 3 unique private event and meeting rooms Phone: (631) 288-2500 totaling 2,200 square feet inclusive of a Contact: Carlos Vega private reception foyer. The stunning Luxury Email: [email protected] Suite Collection provides one-of-a-kind Website: www.bathandtennis.com settings for intimate gatherings. One UN Hotel Address: 151 West 54th Street Our 439 spacious guest rooms and suites New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 307-5000 or (888) LONDNYC begin on the 28th floor of our Midtown Website: www.thelondonnyc.com hotel, guaranteeing some of the best skyline views of New York City from every window. Mandarin Oriental, Look out at the Empire State Building, New York Chrysler Building, East River and views of 198 guest rooms, 46 suites, 3 meeting five legendary bridges. Visit our full-service rooms health club with panoramic city views 24 Address: 80 Columbus Circle at 60th Street hours, located on the 27th floor. Play tennis New York, NY 10023 year-round by appointment at the only indoor Phone: (212) 805-8800 tennis court in any New York City hotel. Website: www.mandarinoriental.com/ Address: One United Nations Plaza newyork New York, NY 10017 Millennium Hilton Phone: (212) 702-5038 or (212) 702-5025 Contact: Maleta Edwards- Sr. Sales Manager The Millennium Hilton hotel, New York is for Tour & Travel conveniently located in downtown New Email: Maleta.edwards York’s World Trade Center (WTC) / Financial @millenniumhotels.com District, across from the September 11 Website: www.millenniumhotels.com Memorial and near Battery Park City. Radisson Martinique on This New York Hotel is just minutes from renowned New York neighborhoods, financial Broadway institutions, and the landmarks that define 533 guest rooms and suites, 20,000 square Need even more event the New York skyline. From redesigned feet of meeting space dining experiences to state-of-the-art Address: 49 West 32nd Street New York, NY 10001 planning options? meeting and event facilities, our New York Phone: (212) 277-2647 City hotel has been carefully designed for Contact: John DiPretoro Visit crainsnewyork.com/resources/meeting-planner your modern travel needs. Email: [email protected] Address: 55 Church Street Website: www.themartinique.com New York, NY 10007 Phone: (212) 693-2001 or (800) Hilton The Ritz-Carlton New York, Email: [email protected] Battery Park Website: www.newyorkmillenium.hilton.com 298 guest rooms, 39 suites, 8 meeting Millennium Broadway Hotel & rooms. In addition we offer an outdoor Conference Center New York reception space. IACC-certified. Updated meeting space, Address: Two West Street New York, NY 10004 including the beautiful restored Hudson Phone: (212) 344-0800 or (800) 241-3333 Theatre. 43 meeting rooms accommodating Email: [email protected] up to 700 people. Separate floor for Website: www.ritzcarlton.com/batterypark conference dining. 625 newly renovated guest rooms with floor to ceiling windows Ritz-Carlton New York Central and amazing views of Times Square Park Address: 145 West 44th Street 259 guest rooms, 47 suites, four meeting rooms. New York, NY 10036 Address: 50 Central Park South Phone: (212) 789-7546 New York, NY 10019 Contact: Eunice Martinez-Sharkey Phone: (212) 308-9100 Email: eunice.martinez@ Web site: www.ritzcarlton.com millenniumhotels.com Website: www.millenniumbroadway.com The Roger New York Montauk Yacht Club Resort 193 guest rooms, 1 boardroom accommodating up to 12 people, outdoor & Marina (Long Island) event space for up to 70 people @UPPERSTORYNY 104 guest rooms, 5 meeting rooms: We have Address: 131 Madison Avenue over 10,000 square feet of indoor meeting New York, NY 10016 space and can accommodate groups up to Phone: (212) 448-7000 or (888) 448-7788 1,000 in a tented area on our Great Lawn. Email: [email protected] Our beautiful Farmhouse Ballroom can Website: www.therogernewyork.com accommodate 165, or more, based on set up. The Roosevelt Hotel More information can be found on our website. New York Address: 32 Star Island Road, PO Box 5048 ALL-NEW · CHEF CHARLIE PALMER’S PREMIER PRIVATE EVENTS SPACE + CAFÉ OVERLOOKING MANHATTAN Montauk, NY 11954 Meet in a classic New York City setting at D&D BUILDING · 979 THIRD AVENUE · 14TH FLOOR · NEW YORK, NY · 212.644.9394 · UPPERSTORYNY.COM Phone: (631) 668-3100 or (888) 692-8668 The Roosevelt Hotel, conveniently located in Email: [email protected] midtown Manhattan with a total of 30,000 Website: www.montaukyachtclub.com square feet of flexible New York City meeting New York Hilton Midtown and exhibit space, on-site A/V capabilities, high-speed internet access and a 24-hour 1981 guest rooms, 51 suites, 46 meeting Business Center. rooms The Roosevelt Hotel’s 23 function rooms, Address: 1335 Sixth Avenue including two main ballrooms are perfect for New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 586-7000 or (212) 261-5727 executive meetings of 20 people as well as Website: www.newyorkhiltonhotel.com corporate gatherings of 800. 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The Roosevelt Hotel New York Phone: (212) 965-3114 (continued) Email: [email protected] Address: 45 East 45th Street Website: www.tribecagrand.com New York, NY 10017 Phone: (888) TEDDY-NY W Hoboken Contact: Bryan Kalman –Director of Catering Take in the landscape of lower Manhattan Email: [email protected] from W Hoboken, a fabulous waterfront Website: www.theroosevelthotel.com Hoboken hotel where sparkling panoramas Shelburne NYC, an A! nia of the New York City skyline unfold before your eyes. A cosmopolitan oasis just hotel minutes from Manhattan, New Jersey’s 325 Guestrooms and Suites, 2 meeting hottest spot is power packed with rooms, totaling 1,250 square feet of scintillating nightlife, delectable dining and versatile event space for large-scale to high-tech amenities. Elevate Hoboken intimate meetings and events meetings from ordinary to extraordinary at Address: 303 Lexington Ave at 37th Street W Hoboken, where custom details defi ne a New York, NY 10016 memorable experience. Artful in approach Phone: (212) 689-5200 or (866) AFFINIA Email: info@affi nia.com and innovative in design, we’ll engage and Website: www.affi nia.com inspire your meeting attendees. Get down to business with Hoboken meetings in Sheraton New York Times 5,740 square feet of fl exible event space. Square Energize participants in the stylish setting of 1,781 guest rooms; 60,000 square feet our Great Room, or double the fun when we of meeting space, including an Executive create two spaces from this expansive area. Conference Center Set your sights in our Studios, with views Address: 811 7th Avenue of the Manhattan skyline and Hudson River New York, NY 10019 that can’t be beat. Think outside the box Phone: (212) 841-6615 and recharge on our airy terrace. Email: [email protected] Address: 225 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 Website: www.sheratonnewyork.com Phone: (201) 253-2400 www.sheraton.com/newyork Contact: Andrei Oei, Director of Sales & Marketing Smyth — a Thompson Hotel Email: [email protected] Our two oversized Thompson Suites are Website: www.whoboken.com 800 square feet. They feature a spacious master bedroom, separate lounge area, The Waldorf-Astoria, 301 fl oor-to-ceiling glass windows and two Park Ave. separate bathrooms. The Thompson Suite 1,413 guest rooms, including 303 suites; can accommodate 8 people boardroom 40 meeting rooms style and a reception for up to 15 people. It Address: 301 Park Avenue is the perfect setting for private entertaining, New York, NY 10022 lounging, and business receptions up to Phone: (212) 355-3000 or (800) WALDORF 25 people. The dining area hosts a kitchen Website: www.waldorfastoria.com area with a full wet bar, a large dining table Westin New York Grand perfect for a boardroom setting. Our private Central dining room is located on the lower level SAVE THE DATE: 10.28.2015 774 guest rooms; 7 meeting rooms, ×ØØØØØÙ and is run by our restaurant Little Park, including 3 boardrooms which is a seasonal farm to table style Address: 212 East 42nd Street Join Crain's NewYork Business for a restaurant by award-winning chef Andrew New York, NY 10017 Carmellini. The space can hold up can Phone: (212) 405-4200 hold up to 108 individuals for a cocktail Email: anubha.choudhrie@ trade show featuring NewYork businesses reception, 80 in theater, 40 in rounds, 14 in starwoodhotels.com board style & 12 in U-Shape. Website: www.westinnewyorkgrandcentral. in the food and beverage industry. Address: 85 West Broadway com New York, NY 10007 Phone: (212) 587-7000 or (888) 58-Smyth Westin New York at Times Email: [email protected] Square Website: www.thompsonhotels.com/hotels/ The Westin New York at Times Square is smyth-tribeca Midtown Manhattan’s most sophisticated Soho Grand Hotel presence. Designed for contemporary 353 guest rooms, including 10 private travelers and fi rst-class meetings, this access suites and 2 penthouse loft suites 45-story, 863-room landmark hotel is with private outdoor terraces, designed by located in the heart of Broadway and Bill Sofi eld. With two meeting rooms, the features Heavenly Beds® and Heavenly Harbor Room has 1,345 of square feet and Baths®, a fi tness center and 34,000 the Chart Room has 1,144 square feet of square feet of function space. meeting space. 873 guest rooms, 32 meeting rooms Address: 310 West Broadway Address: 270 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10013 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 965-3000 Phone: (212) 201-4630 or (888) 627-7149 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.grandlifehotels.com Website: www.westinny.com Tarrytown House Estate & M Conference Center ade rk Crain’s Meeting Planners Guide in New Yo 24 miles from Manhattan, accessible by train. 212 guest rooms, 30 meeting is published by Crain’s Custom This year's event will feature rooms, and equipped with state-of-the-art Studio. For more information, audiovisual and bandwidth requirements. please contact Joanna Harp at a trade show marketplace, Celebrating 50 years as the nation’s fi rst (212) 210-0278 or educational sessions conference center. Complete business and panel discussions. center, sports and recreational facilities. [email protected]. Address: 49 East Sunnyside Lane APELLA™ 450 EAST 29TH STREET APELLA IS NEW YORK CITY’S BOARD MEETINGS, Tarrytown, NY 10591 EVENT SPACE AT 2ND FLOOR MOST INNOVATIVE MEETING CELEBRATIONS, COCKTAIL Phone: (914) 591-3194 ALEXANDRIA CENTER™ NEW YORK, NY 10016 AND EVENT SPACE LOCATED RECEPTIONS, CONFERENCES, Contact: Jamieson Asselta TEL 212.706.4100 Email: [email protected] WITHIN THE ALEXANDRIA DINNERS, FASHION SHOWS, Website: www.tarrytownhouseestate.com [email protected] CENTER FOR LIFE SCIENCE. HOLIDAY PARTIES, LECTURES, WWW. 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NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom 500A E. 87th STREET LLC A. Art. of as agent of LLC upon whom process FINANCIAL process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: may be served. SSNY shall mail NOMAD 28TH STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on OPPORTUNITIES IN 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 01/13/15. Office: New York County. process to the LLC, 267 Broadway, 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/30/2014. 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10007. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been SSNY designated as agent of the MORTGAGE NOTES of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE LLC upon whom process against it Purpose: General. 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. may be served. SSNY shall mail • Mortgages For Sale SSNY shall mail process to: Morris Terzi, copy of process to the LLC, c/o Notice of Formation of TALKING ANIMALS Notice of Qual. of 257 Park Avenue Staffard Garson Properties, LLC, 747 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of • Ranging from $149K - $800K 385 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1010, NY, NY South Fee Owner, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY State of NY (SSNY) on 04/03/15. • Low Loan to Value of State (SSNY) 12/11/14. Office loc: 10704. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Office location: NY County. SSNY NY County. LLC org. in DE 12/10/14. designated as agent of LLC upon whom • Accruing Default Interest @ 24% Notice of Formation of WOLF SCI- SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon ENTIFIC, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Bronx Swirl, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed process against it may be served. SSNY whom proc. against it may be served. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Call: J. Hughis @ 888-377-3872 Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on shall mail process to the LLC, 155 E. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Feil 11/07/14. Office location: NY County. 05/16/14. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY des. 34th St., Apt. #14E, NY, NY 10016. Org., 7 Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10001. DE SSNY designated as agent of LLC as agent of LLC upon whom process Purpose: Any lawful activity. office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., upon whom process against it may may be served. SSNY shall mail PUBLIC & LEGAL Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. be served. SSNY shall mail process process to Bronx Swirl, LLC, 200 Notice of Formation of GATES MANOR on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, to the LLC, 1725 York Ave., Apt. 29B, Baychester Ave., Ste. 206B, Bronx, PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed NOTICES DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. NY, NY 10128. The regd. agent of the NY 10475. Registered agent is Jay with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on company upon whom and at which Mena, same address. Purpose: General. 04/09/15. Office location: NY County. Amalgamated Life Insurance Notice of Qual. of 520 West 41 Funding process against the company can be Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) served is Barry Farkas at the addr. of Notice of Formation of Not the Burbs NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which Company is committed to 1/9/15. Office loc: NY County. LLC org. process. Purpose: Any lawful activity. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2114. SSNY preventing fraud in regard to the in DE 12/29/14. SSNY desig. as agent of State on 3/4/15. Office Location: designated as agent of LP upon whom of LLC upon whom proc. against it may New York County. SSNY designated process against it may be served. SSNY insurance coverage it issues. Notice of Qualification of Thor 98 as agent of LLC upon whom process Therefore, Amalgamated Life, as be served. SSNY shall mail copy of Morningside Ave LLC. App. for Auth. shall mail process to Corporation proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY against it may be served. SSNY shall Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) mail process to: 67 Liberty St. #10, required by the New York State 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. 2/10/15. Office location: NY County. 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each Department of Financial Services may be served. DE office addr.: 160 NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful general partner are available from SSNY. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on activity. makes the following statement: Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 10/3/14. SSNY designated as agent Purpose: Any lawful activity. 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, of LLC upon whom process against it Notice of Qualification of Trio Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. may be served. SSNY shall mail process Any person who knowingly and Developer LLC. Authority filed with NY Notice of Qualification of Direct Purp: any lawful activities. to: c/o Thor Equities, LLC, 25 W. 39th Cabinet Sales - US LBM, LLC. Authority with intent to defraud any Dept. of State on 3/25/15. Office St., NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: location: NY County. LLC formed in DE filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/9/15. Notice of Formation of Strategic insurance company or other c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., on 3/23/15. NY Sec. of State designated Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. Business – Properties – New York LLC. 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE agent of LLC upon whom process addr.: 1990 Larsen Rd., Green Bay, WI, person, files an application for Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. against it may be served and shall mail 54303. LLC formed in DE on 3/2/15. NY insurance or statement of claim of NY (SSNY) on 1/16/15. Office of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, process to: c/o CT Corporation System, Sec. of State designated agent of LLC location: NY County. SSNY designated containing any materially false DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE upon whom process against it may be as agent of LLC upon whom process information, or conceals for the address of LLC: c/o Corporation Trust served and shall mail process to: c/o against it may be served. SSNY shall Notice of Qualification of 21-25 West Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., purpose of misleading, mail process to: c/o The LLC, 100 34th Air Rights Owner LLC. Authority 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom information concerning any fact Riverside Blvd., Ste. 5G, NY, NY filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/3/15. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE process may be served. DE addr. of 10069. Purpose: any lawful activity. material there-to, commits a Office location: NY County. LLC formed 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE fraudulent insurance act, which in DE on 12/5/13. NY Sec. of State 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. Notice of Qual. of 285 W12th Investors designated agent of LLC upon whom BoxTree Productions, LLC. Appl. for of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE is a crime and shall also be LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) process against it may be served and Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. subject to a civil penalty not to 2/23/15. Office loc: NY County. LLC shall mail process to: National Registered (SSNY) on 03/12/15. Off. loc: NY Co. org. in DE 2/11/15. SSNY desig. as Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 111 8th Ave., NY, exceed five thousand dollars and Orig. juris: DE. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against NY 10011. DE address of LLC: NRAI, Notice of formation of Meliki Hurd the stated value of the claim for agent of LLC upon whom process it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, Entertainment LLC. Arts. of Org. filed may be served. SSNY shall mail each such violation. of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE with NY Secy. of state (SSNY) on process to Andrea Dubois, 245 W NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 02/24/2015. Location: Kings County. 138th St, New York, NY 10030. proc. may be served. DE office addr.: 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. SSNY designated for service of Anyone knowing of a fraudulent Purpose: General. process and shall mail copy of act should call Ellen Dunkin at: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Notice of Qualification of NY-SMSA process served against the LLC to Amalgamated Life Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Sale Site Subsidiary LLC. Authority NYIF Livingston, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Registered Agent: c/o United States Insurance Company Purp: any lawful activities. filed with NY Dept. of State on with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th 333 Westchester Avenue 3/19/15. Office location: NY County. 11/19/14. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY des. Avenue, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY White Plains, NY 10604 Notice of Qual. of 285 W12th Manager Princ. bus. addr.: One Verizon Way, as agent of LLC upon whom process 11238. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. may be served. SSNY shall mail process 800-624-5844 LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Basking Ridge, NJ 07920. LLC formed 2/23/15. Office loc: NY County. LLC in DE on 3/3/15. NY Sec. of State to the LLC, 267 Broadway, 2nd Fl., Notice of Formation of ALPINE org. in DE 2/11/15. SSNY desig. as designated agent of LLC upon whom New York, NY 10007. Purpose: General. EXCLUSIVE CONTRACTING, LLC Notice of Formation of HASKELL agent of LLC upon whom proc. against process against it may be served and Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State CAPACITY BROKERAGE, LLC Arts. of it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy shall mail process to: c/o CT DEFIANT REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. of NY (SSNY) on 03/04/15. Office Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, filed with the SSNY on 11/19/2014. location: NY County. SSNY designated (SSNY) on 03/10/15. Office location: NY NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been as agent of LLC upon whom process County. SSNY designated as agent of proc. may be served. DE office addr.: process may be served. DE addr. of designated as agent upon whom against it may be served. SSNY shall LLC upon whom process against it 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE process against the LLC may be served. mail process to Wilson Elser Moskowitz may be served. SSNY shall mail process 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. SSNY shall mail process to: Daniel Edelman & Dicker LLP, Attn: Nicolas to the LLC, 100 William St., Ste. 1850, NY, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE Janow, 11 Maiden Ln. #12E, NY, NY Caiazzo, 150 W. 42nd St., NY, NY NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purp: any lawful activities. 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. 10038. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SSNY shall whom process against it may be served agent of LLC upon whom process 10024. SSNY designated as agent of served. SSNY shall mail process to mail copy of process to 225 against LLC to: DoorPost Blessing against it may be served. The address LLC upon whom process against it may the LLC, 123 E. 54th St, #7E, NY, NY Broadway, 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10007. 572 Cary Ave., SI, NY 10310. Purpose: SSNY shall mail copy of process to and be served. SSNY shall mail process 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purpose: any lawful activities. Any lawful activity or purpose. the office address required to be to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. maintained in PA is 550 Spencer Lane, office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of trampoLEAN Notice of formation of Flat World LLC. Notice of Formation of VKAL, LLC Arts. Warminster, PA 18974. Cert. of LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY Organization filed with Carol Aichele, 17 WASHINGTON LLC, Arts. of Org. State on 3/30/15. Office location: NY NY (SSNY) on 02/09/2015. Office (SSNY) on 01/20/15. Office location: Secy. of State, 401 North St., Room filed with the SSNY on 03/11/2015. County. Sec. of State designated agent location: NY County. SSNY designated NY County. SSNY designated as agent 206, Harrisburg, PA 17105. Purpose: Office loc: NY County. SSNY has of LLC upon whom process against it agent upon whom process may be of LLC upon whom process against Any lawful activity. been designated as agent upon whom may be served and shall mail process served and shall mail copy of process it may be served. SSNY shall mail process against the LLC may be served. to: 550 W. 45th St., Apt. 346, NY, NY against LLC to principal business process to Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum JMD BUILDING PRODUCTS LLC, SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 10036, principal business address. address: 325 W 45th St, 311, New York, PLLC, 120 Wall St., 25th Fl., NY, NY Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 135 West 26 Street #11B, NY, NY Purpose: all lawful purposes. NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act 10005. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 02/26/2015. Office loc: NY County. 10001. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. SSNY has been designated as agent Notice of Qualification of Stone & Notice of Qualification of RICHMOND upon whom process against the LLC Notice of Formation of WALDEN Notice of Formation of BK Park GLOBAL VENTURES LLC Appl. for Strand LLC. Authority filed with NY Development LLC, Art. of Org. filed may be served. SSNY shall mail PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed Dept. of State on 4/1/15. Office location: Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY process to: The LLC, 15 William with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/5/14. (SSNY) on 03/25/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on Office location: NY County. SSNY Street, #20E, NY, NY 10005-2942. 03/17/15. Office location: NY County. 5/1/12. NY Sec. of State designated NY County. LLC formed in Delaware Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, designated as agent of LLC upon whom (DE) on 03/13/14. Princ. office of LLC: agent of LLC upon whom process process against it may be served. SSNY NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which against it may be served and shall mail 900 Third Ave., Ste. 1401, NY, NY Notice of Qual. of Sydell Hostel the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2114. shall mail copy of process to NRAI, 111 10022. SSNY designated as agent of process to: 154 Grand St., NY, NY Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Manager LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of SSNY designated as agent of LP upon 10013, principal business address. LLC upon whom process against it may State (SSNY) 12/12/14. Office loc: NY whom process against it may be served. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. be served. SSNY shall mail process DE address of LLC: Corporation Purpose: any lawful activities. County. LLC org. in DE 12/14/11. SSNY SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., to the LLC at the princ. office of the desig. as agent of LLC upon whom Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Paracorp proc. against it may be served. SSNY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Notice of Qualification of MSG AVIATION, Incorporated, 2140 S. Dupont Hwy., shall mail copy of proc. to Sydell Grp., general partner are available from P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. Camden, DE 19934. Cert. of Form. 30 W. 26th St., NY, NY 10010, the Reg. SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purpose: all lawful purposes. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/27/15. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Office location: NY County. LLC formed Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE office addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. Notice of Qualification of WFO BP REO in Delaware (DE) on 03/04/15. Princ. Notice of Qualification of Wildcat DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. 2015-01, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with office of LLC: Two Pennsylvania Ave., Capital Management, LLC. Authority on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/17/15. NY, NY 10121. SSNY designated as filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/31/15. Notice of Qualification of Viking DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Office location: NY County. LLC agent of LLC upon whom process Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. Partners Fund III LP. Authority filed with formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/05/15. against it may be served. SSNY shall addr.: 888 7th Ave., 35th Fl., NY, NY NY Dept. of State on 4/11/14. Office Notice of Formation of Amsland Princ. office of LLC: 1140 Ave. of the mail process to c/o Corporation 10106. LLC formed in DE on 10/17/11. location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: Retail LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Americas, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10036. SSNY Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY NY Sec. of State designated agent of 55 Railroad Ave., Greenwich, CT Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on designated as agent of LLC upon whom 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 LLC upon whom process against it 06830. LP formed in DE on 4/2/14. 3/4/15. Office Location: New York process against it may be served. SSNY Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, may be served and shall mail process NY Sec. of State designated agent of County. SSNY designated as agent of shall mail process to c/o Corporation DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 LP upon whom process against it may LLC upon whom process against it Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of be served and shall mail process to: may be served. SSNY shall mail process 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th to: c/o Texwood Investment Inc., 850 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LP: Seventh Avenue, New York, NY DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Any lawful activity. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qual. of SOHO AOA Mezz, Name/addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with Notice of Qualification of NRG 40 RECTOR 1000, LLC, a domestic LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Business Services LLC. Authority filed Notice of Qual. of Axonic Special 12/9/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/17/15. DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. with NY Dept. of State on 3/16/15. Opportunities Fund 2014-1, LP, Auth. Office location: New York County. org. in DE 10/22/14. SSNY desig. as Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/20/14. SSNY is designated as agent upon agent of LLC upon whom proc. against addr.: 211 Carnegie Ctr., Princeton, NJ Office loc: NY Cty. LP org. in DE whom process against the LLC may it may be served. SSNY shall mail SLB 121 NY LLC, a domestic LLC, 08540. LLC formed in DE on 3/11/15. 5/19/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LP be served. SSNY shall mail process copy of proc. to Stellar Mgmt., 156 filed with the SSNY on 1/14/15. Office NY Sec. of State designated agent of upon whom proc. against it may be to Language Studies International, William St., NY, NY 10038. DE office location: New York County. SSNY is LLC upon whom process against it may served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. Attn: CFO, 1706 5th Ave., San addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, designated as agent upon whom be served and shall mail process to: to Att: Clayton DeGiacinto, 390 Park Diego, CA 92101. General Purposes. Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on process against the LLC may be c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE office file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, served. SSNY shall mail process to Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of TechnoHome The LLC, 180 Park Row, Apt. 24D, whom process may be served. DE addr. Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of NY, NY 10038. General purpose. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, State of NY (SSNY) on 04/02/15. Office Notice of Qual. of Axonic Special DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. location: NY County. LLC formed in Opportunities Fund 2014-1 GP LLC, Notice of Qualification of FINGER Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, avail. at SSNY. Purp: any lawful activities. Delaware (DE) on 05/30/14. Princ. office Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) LAKES SOLAR 1, LLC Appl. for Auth. DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. of LLC: 100 Park Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 5/19/14. Office loc: NY County. LLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) Notice of Qualification of AS ST. 10017. SSNY designated as agent of org. in DE 5/19/14. SSNY desig. as on 03/23/15. Office location: NY Notice of Qualification of CLAIRE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with LLC upon whom process against it may agent of LLC upon whom proc. County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) Williamsburg Portfolio IV, LLC. Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on be served. SSNY shall mail process to against it may be served. SSNY shall on 03/17/15. Princ. office of LLC: 360 Authority filed with NY Dept. of State 02/23/15. Office location: NY County. c/o Larry Gulko, 3 Old Bridge Ln., Sharon, mail copy of proc. to Att: Clayton 22nd St., Ste. 600, Oakland, CA on 1/29/15. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on MA 02067. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Allstate DeGiacinto, 390 Park Ave., 15th Fl., 94612. SSNY designated as agent of LLC formed in DE on 1/23/15. NY Sec. 08/24/11. Princ. office of LLC: 430 Corporate Services Corp., 1679 S. Dupont NY, NY 10022. DE office addr.: CSC, LLC upon whom process against it of State designated agent of LLC upon Park Ave., Ste. 505, NY, NY 10022. Hwy., Ste. 100, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE may be served. SSNY shall mail whom process against it may be SSNY designated as agent of LLC of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, process to c/o Corporation Service served and shall mail process to: c/o upon whom process against it may be Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207- CT Corporation System, 111 8th served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purp: any lawful activities. 2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State Rd., Wilmington, DE 17808. Cert. of upon whom process may be served. St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., #3, Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Solar 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of energy development. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE DE-Div. of Corps., John Townsend 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE Do You Want To Get Your Notice of Qualification of Varsity 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Spirit LLC. Authority filed with NY Notice of Qualification of Company In Front Of New Dept. of State on 3/23/2015. Office Williamsburg Portfolio III, LLC. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Aesop location: NY County. LLC formed in Authority filed with NY Dept. of State Advisors LLC. Articles of Organization TN on 4/21/1983. NY Sec. of State on 1/29/15. Office location: NY County. filed with the Secretary of State of NY York City’s Influential designated agent of LLC upon whom LLC formed in DE on 1/23/15. NY Sec. (SSNY) on 2/12/2015. Office location: process against it may be served and of State designated agent of LLC upon NEW YORK County. SSNY has been Business Professionals? shall mail process to: c/o CT whom process against it may be served designated as agent upon whom Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, and shall mail process to: c/o CT process against it may be served. The NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, Post Office address to which the SSNY Contact Joanne Barbieri at 212-210-0189 process may be served. TN and principal NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom shall mail a copy of any process against business address: 6745 Lenox process may be served. DE addr. of the LLC served upon him/her is: for classified advertising opportunities. Center Ct., Ste. 300, Memphis, TN LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Corporate Direct, Inc, 2248 38115. Cert. of Org. filed with TN Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Meridian Blvd, Ste H, Minden, NV, Sec. of State, 312 Rosa L. Parks Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of 89423 The principal business address Ave., 6th Fl., Nashville, TN 37243. State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE of the LLC is: New York Purpose: any Purpose: all lawful purposes. 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. lawful act or activity.

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Continued from Page 3 much as 20% lower than the compe- Amazon,”said Michael Levin,part- tition, will be attractive enough to ner and co-founder of Consumer persuade shoppers to buy in. That’s Intelligence Research Partners, a the value proposition: The bigger market research firm. “They’re try- the shopping basket, the more lu- ing to approach retailers that are crative the savings. threatened by Amazon and say, The 120-person company has CITIGROUP BANK OF AMERICA BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON ‘Here’s a way to compete—through signed up 2,500 beta users, but has Jamie Forese, Michael Corbat, Thomas Montag, Brian Moynihan, Curtis Arledge, Gerald Hassell, us.’ ” set its sights on 350,000 other po- co-president CEO chief operating CEO head, investment CEO Jet,which will move from Mont- tential members who have said $15.9M $14.5M officer $13M management $11.7M clair,N.J.,into a 40,000-square-foot they’d like to join the service, al- $14M $12M

headquarters in Hoboken next though officials at super-secret Jet bloomberg news month, said it will make money pri- have not said when it will go live. marily through its member fees—a Jet essentially allows its partner more than CEO Gerald Hassell,ac- lucrative and growing business that merchants to bid for customer sales cording to SEC compensation cal- offers more perceived value and al- by offering lower deals. It could be Pay daze at banks culations. lows retailers to better track the buy- cheaper to buy two of something Mr. Arledge’s performance was ing habits of their customers. Re- from a vendor rather than just one Continued from Page 3 paid more than the CEO when they not so stellar in 2014—indeed, his tailers collected more than $7 billion from another, for example. office of investment.“If the chief ex- pocketed $23 million and $30 mil- unit’s revenue and earnings came in in annual membership fees last year. “We’re betting on the fact that ecutive officer doesn’t make his lion, respectively. “below plan” and the board awarded there are a lot of shoppers in this benchmarks and others do, they It may come as some consolation him only 89% of his “target” pay last Buy more, save more country who care about savings and should get paid more.” to today’s Wall Street CEOs that year, while Mr. Hassell got 90%. “The disposable income among values,” said Sumaiya Balbale, Jet’s The development also under- their underlings aren’t out-earning (The bank’s president and CFO [retailers’] core customers is shrink- vice president of marketing. “These scores how regulatory and share- them as dramatically as that. each got 100% of their targets.) But ing,” said Al Sambar, managing aren’t just the folks that are coupon holder pressures are weighing down For instance, Citi CEO Michael pay for money-management execu- partner of the retail and consumer clippers but generally people who earnings for Wall Street’s top man- Corbat was paid $14.5 million last tives like Mr. Arledge is typically group at consulting firm Kurt want to be savvy about the way they agers. year, while Jamie Forese, who leads based on how much they oversee, Salmon. “They’re competing for spend money every day.” “You’ve seen a bit more con- Citi’s investment banking division, and assets under management in his customer purchases and they do that Mr. Lore’s record and belief that straint in CEO pay since the finan- made $15.9 million, according to division rose by $100 billion last year, by extending value.” bargain-hungry consumers won’t cial crisis and this is one sign of the way the Securities and Ex- to $1.7 trillion, thanks to favorable In this sense, Jet is going up mind paying an annual fee for better that,” said Bob McCormick, chief change Commission computes markets. Mr. Arledge also out- against an ascendant Amazon, deals online have helped him raise policy officer at Glass Lewis, a firm compensation. Both executives had earned Mr.Hassell in 2013,when he which in the last three months of money with investors. In February, that advises investors on how to vote their pay cut, but Mr. Corbat’s was was awarded $12.3 million com- 2014 alone boosted its number of the company closed on a round of in boardroom elections. reduced by more—18%, to be ex- pared with the CEO’s $9.5 million. Prime members by 40%, to 40 mil- $140 million, led by Bain Capital Messrs. Rees and McCormick act—because Citi failed its federal As for Goldman’s Mr. Schwartz, lion, according to CIRP. Ventures, which brought its total in- point out that Wall Street CEOs stress test and saw its net earnings his pay exceeded Mr. Blankfein’s be- Mr. Lore hopes that Jet, with 10 vestment capital to $220 million. sometimes earn less than individual fall nearly by half. cause he was relocated to the key Bei- million everyday items priced as bankers or traders having a hot year, jing office. As part of the move, he Banding together in much the same way that movie Poor Brian Moynihan was granted $1 million in interna- MARC LORE Ironically, by linking with small- stars or TV news anchors sometimes At Bank of America, the board tional assignment-related benefits. believes his er retailers, Jet is returning to the get paid more than the chiefs of me- awarded CEO Brian Moynihan He also got a $6.3 million tax bene- prices will undercut historic roots of warehouse chains. dia conglomerates. But such pay $13 million in total compensation, fit that the firm said is “intended to Amazon’s. The model began in the ’70s as a disparities typically aren’t disclosed, or $1 million less than the amount place Mr. Schwartz in a similar net business-to-business enterprise to since public companies only need to granted to Thomas Montag, the tax position as a similarly compen- serve smaller, independent mer- report compensation awarded to top head of global banking and markets sated employee in the United States.” chants, who banded together to buy management. who was promoted to chief operat- Goldman wouldn’t comment. bulk discounts on household items. A generation ago, Wall Street ing officer in 2014. Mr. Moynihan, But for what it’s worth, under calcu- “Retail is operated in these silos,” masters of the universe got paid who last year added the chairman’s lations preferred by the firm that said Scott Friend, managing direc- more than their CEOs with some title, by now must be used to being measure how much salary,bonus and tor at Bain. “Marc’s idea is to blow frequency. Drexel Burnham Lam- the top dog who is paid like a second deferred compensation was awarded open the doors on them and let the bert junk-bond king Michael banana.Since he became chief exec- by the board rather than how much merchants have access to consumers Milken earned $550 million in utive in 2010,Mr.Moynihan’s board actually vested and was paid out in in real time, and let them bid on 1987,a time when the going rate for has awarded him less pay than Mr. 2014, Mr. Blankfein last year made [consumers’] baskets.” Ⅲ Wall Street chief executives was Montag every year. more than Mr. Schwartz. Ⅲ about $3 million a year. In 1990 and At BNY Mellon, investment LISTEN to a discussion at 1994,two Salomon Brothers traders management chief Curtis Arledge LISTEN to a discussion at CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts who rolled the dice correctly got was paid $12 million, or $300,000 CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts

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START WITH high-quality flowers, like these Sour Diesel STATE LAW requires the buds be sold as an oil extract to THESE GLASS “oil rigs,” used for vaporizing extracts, CAPSULES ARE formed by adding vegetable oil or a buds known for their potency. The strain is reputed to be vaporized not smoked, which is considered healthier. are produced by Mothership Glass in Washington. The proprietary ingredient to the extract. The pills here are relieve stress, depression, pain and lack of appetite. Extraction uses high pressure to liquefy the plant. one on the left costs $3,000. Vape pens are cheaper. effective against seizures and do not make users high.

quarters, since patients who prefer rather than later,” said Diane Savi- smoking weed to inhaling vapors no, the Democratic state senator What legal pot looks like in NY might stay loyal to the black market. who sponsored the legislation. The biggest complaint is the lim- She acknowledged that “there’s a Continued from Page 1 money for the first few years at least. into high-quality extracts. Cannas- ited number of qualifying condi- lot of risk” for entrepreneurs. But, access to since Colorado legalized Overall,however,the opportuni- tract’s chief science officer, Mark tions. New York doesn’t include she said, “there’s a unique opportu- recreational cannabis in January ties in the legal cannabis industry are Scialdone, an organic chemist and post-traumatic stress disorder, for nity,because the state is establishing 2014. With their help, he weaned big enough to incite talk of a “green veteran of DuPont,is working on new instance, and, most critically, sets a a program that is going to be the himself off the massive doses of pre- rush.” In addition to states that have ways to refine concentrates, identify high bar when it comes to pain.That leader in the country.” scription opiates he had been taking legalized medical marijuana, four, compounds and create patented vari- could shrink the pool of patients to That sounds grandiose,but some since a back operation in 2000 left plus the District of Columbia, have ations that target medical conditions. where the financials don’t add up for in the cannabis industry agree with him with two vertebrae pressing also legalized its recreational use. It’s an approach that’s well-suited some industry players. her.Josh Stanley,a medical marijua- against each other. Fourteen more states are expected to to New York,where licensees,in ad- na pioneer credited with opening Now Mr. Pinsky is joining a join them by 2020, according to the dition to growing the plants, will Capital costs the first dispensary in Denver, re- growing group of New York entre- ArcView Group, an Oakland, have to master the chemical “Do we sit on the sidelines and cently moved his company, Citiva preneurs who are racing to start Calif.-based investment firm. processes for turning buds into oils. wait,or go for first-mover advantage Medical, to New York in hopes of cannabis businesses as legalization Combined recreational and med- Under the current law,which is con- and bite the bullet until the program obtaining a license. continues to gain steam.And though ical sales spiked 74% in 2014,to $2.7 sidered possibly the most restrictive expands?” asked Derek Peterson, He pointed out that proper dos- he is starting in Denver, his plans billion, and are forecast to hit $3.5 in the country,cannabis sales will be chief executive of Terra Tech, an in- ing can only be done with extracts, provide a glimpse into how enter- billion this year limited to extracts and pills. door agriculture firm involved in and argues that the green rush prises could bring their products to and $10.8 billion Cannastract could end up with Nevada’s medical marijuana rollout spurred by recreational weed in Col- market in New York, which in 2014 by 2019, accord- 74% an exclusive partnership or possibly that has been scouting potential orado has made it difficult to focus became the 23rd state to legalize ing to ArcView. SALES GROWTH a consulting arrangement with a grow sites in New York. “That’s the on its medical potential. medical marijuana and where dis- And that’s not OF MARIJUANA New York operation, according to question for a lot of us,because [New “New York’s law is without a pensaries should be open by January. counting ancil- nationally for Mr. Pinsky, who sees intellectual York’s law] is not an entrepreneurial- doubt the most narrow and restric- “Even though we’re looking at lary businesses, recreational and friendly piece of legislation.” tive, but it’s zeroing in on the sci- medical use in property as the future of the busi- cultivation and processing opportu- which range from 2014, to $2.7B ness, especially if mainstream phar- An extraction facility is another ence,” Mr. Stanley said. nities in Colorado, that’s just be- packaging to Source: ArcView Group maceutical companies eventually headache,adding upward of $1 mil- He added that he is building a cause it’s where the laws make it an hospitality. join the rush. “We are in talks with lion to capital costs, as well as the team that will help make New York appropriate place to start,” Mr. Pin- “The world has never seen a potential licensees,” he said. challenge of staffing.“It’s like build- an epicenter of a “new biotech revo- sky said. “The plan is to take our business this big that was black- The process for choosing those ing out a Breaking Bad lab,” Mr. Pe- lution,” with the development of methodology and research, and de- market become white-market,” said licensees begins once applications go terson said. “There are people with “standardized doses of varying ra- liver it across the country.” Leslie Bocskor,managing partner of out from the Department of Health, experience nationwide with cultiva- tios” of cannabis’ active compounds. Las Vegas-based cannabis consult- which is expected to happen any day. tion,but not with supercritical CO2 “If you want to get a glass of wine, Restrictive state law ing firm Electrum Partners. He ex- Five licenses for indoor grow houses extraction at a commercial level.” go to Napa Valley,” Mr. Stanley Significantly, Mr. Pinsky never pects to open a Manhattan office for will be granted by July, and each li- The law’s supporters acknowl- summed up his view of how region- considered applying for a medical the Electrum Fund, a hedge fund censee will open four dispensaries. edge that the regulations are restric- al differences are shaking out.“If you marijuana license in his own state, focused on the legal-cannabis in- Critics of the law say 20 dispen- tive, but say there are provisions for want to smoke a joint, go to Col- though he was an active enough dustry, by June. saries can’t possibly serve enough pa- adding qualifying conditions over orado. If you want to get healthy, supporter of New York’s legislation Mr.Pinsky,who is in talks with in- tients in a state with 20 million peo- time. And if the program is success- come to New York.” Ⅲ to be on hand for its signing. He be- vestors, wants to develop a grow ple.The insistence on extracts to the ful, demand could be so great that lieves the regulations are so restric- house in Denver, where genetically exclusion of what is commonly called “the commissioner of health will ex- LISTEN to a discussion at tive that any operation is sure to lose selected harvests will be processed flower is also unpopular in some pand the number of licenses sooner CrainsNewYork.com/podcasts

BUD AND BREAKFAST ANYONE? CROP OF ‘CANNAPRENEURS’ SEES A GROWTH INDUSTRY THE FAST-GROWING LEGAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY is already Some local entrepreneurs have already jumped into the (Originally called RoDawg, it was recently rebranded for more generating sales in the billions of dollars. But in New York industry—by relocating to Denver, which is where former New mainstream appeal.) He says working in Manhattan has given state, where medical marijuana will become available York securities lawyer Joel Schneider launched the MaryJane him access to top designers and, just as important, a pool of sometime over the next year, entrepreneurs hoping to join Group last year. After starting out with several businesses, investors. The company is in the midst of raising $2.2 million. the “green rush” need to look beyond the obvious. including tour and party-bus services, the hospitality-and- The city also makes for good branding. Mr. Gordon is “There’s a ton of opportunity,” said Michael Zaystev, entertainment company has since narrowed its focus to two bringing out two lines of products: custom packaging for use in founder of High NY, a meet-up for local cannabis Bud + Breakfast locations. But it still hopes to expand into dispensaries and a consumer line of high-end cases for loose entrepreneurs with more than 500 members. But the cannabis-friendly movie theaters and lounges. weed and joints, with names like The Bleecker and The TriBeCa. opportunities, he added, are mostly not in the dispensary side “It all starts with hospitality,” said Brett Schneider, 26, a With their sleek design and quality materials, the containers of the business, where applicants for a medical marijuana Manhattan advertising executive and Joel’s son, who runs the are a far cry from what pot smokers are accustomed to. “It was license need deep pockets and high levels of expertise. company’s marketing and branding operations from New York. black market for so long, plastic Baggies became the norm,” Entrepreneurs should think instead about products that “Right now, we’re trying to perfect the Bud + Breakfast model.” Mr. Gordon said in his compact, box-filled WeWork space on “save time and money in the supply chain,” Mr. Zaystev said. Not all of New York’s cannabis ventures involve having one West Broadway. “That’s not how it’s going to be in the future. He cited software applications for point-of-sale systems, foot in another state. We could be one of the groups that help change the image— hardware such as vapor pens for inhaling extracts, or energy- Josh Gordon, 28, is founder and CEO of The Bureau, a and, hopefully, gain market share.” efficient lighting for indoor grow houses. SoHo-based startup focused on cannabis packaging. —MATTHEW FLAMM

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Meredith Corp.: Kim Martin, 54, joined the media and marketing company as chief strategy officer. She was previously president and general manager of WE tv. CommonBond: Vinayak Gurjar,39, joined the student lending platform as chief risk officer. He was previously global head of governance in Treasury capital markets at Citigroup. AIG: Michael Brady, 51, joined the insurance organization as chief technology officer, a newly created position. He was previously head of infrastructure organization at Kaiser Permanente. Blippar: Ariff Quli, 45, joined the image-recognition and augmented- reality app as chief commercial officer, North America. He was previously SANDY MYERSON president of the Americas at Vibrant. is Mount Sinai’s first Eastern Consolidated: Peter Carillo,38, chief patient- was promoted to principal at the real experience officer. estate investment services firm. He continues as senior director. Benjamin Tapper,39, was promoted to principal. He continues as senior director. BDO USA: Greg Falk, 60, joined the accounting and consulting firm as a principal and tax lead of the transaction advisory services practice in the New York office. He was previously national leader of the

buck ennis mergers-and-acquisitions practice at KPMG. GOTHAM GIGS Peter J. Solomon Co.: Juan Mejia,43, was promoted to managing director at the investment banking firm. He was previously a director. Duff & Phelps: Michael Brill, 52, joined the global valuation and financial advisory firm as managing director Enjoy your hospital stay and head of U.S. private capital markets. He was previously managing director and head of fixed income in the investment banking division at Sandy Myerson makes patients happy and healthy Canaccord Genuity. Rubenstein Public Relations: Marilyn If you have a complaint about a Mount Sinai rest will follow.” ¶ Adding a chief experience Lopez, 40, joined the entertainment ‘It’s all division as senior vice president. She hospital, Sandy Myerson wants to hear it. Hired officer has become more common in the wake of was previously senior publicist at John about last November as the 3,571-bed health system’s the Affordable Care Act. Now bad reviews can Doe Communications. Siegelvision: Ann M. Kelly, 46, joined reducing first chief patient-experience officer, she’s trying mean less reimbursement from Medicare, the brand identity consultancy as to improve hospital stays for the hundreds of Medicaid and insurers. ¶ A registered nurse, Ms. senior vice president of business development. She was previously anxiety and thousands of Mount Sinai patients each year. ¶ Myerson is one of 60 such officers in the country. global account manager at LinkedIn. Whether scrolling through Yelp reviews or Mount Sinai has a three-star patient-experience CASAColumbia: increasing analyzing post-stay surveys, Ms. Myerson, 53, is rating, and 77% of patients said they would Cathy Levy,54, joined the nonprofit confidence’ aiming to get inside patients’ heads.That means recommend the hospital.That figure isn’t high research and policy checking up on everything from bedside manner enough for Ms. Myerson, who recently organization focused on to the cleanliness of rooms—even how the mandated more frequent check-ins on patients substance use and chicken was cooked counts. ¶ Ms. Myerson said by nurses and managers. She’s focused on addiction as director patients rarely make judgments based just on creating a single Mount Sinai brand experience of development. She was previously vice president of clinical care. More often, it’s the way staffers across seven campuses since the 2013 merger development at the Council for communicate and whether a hospital meets a with Continuum Health Partners. ¶ “It was hit Economic Education. Ebiquity: Rebeca Denny, 39, joined the patient’s expectations. “It’s all about reducing or miss,” she said of the previous attention paid media auditing and insight firm as anxiety and increasing the level of confidence to patient experience at each facility.“That’s director of client partnerships. She was previously director of client patients have in our ability to take safe care of changed. I’ve given [employees] focus and services at Gorkana Inc. them,” she said. “When we can do that well, the direction.” —jonathan lamantia Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty:

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SOURCE Laura F.Coppola, 45, joined the specialist corporate insurer as regional head of BREAKFAST: JORDAN GASPAR management liability commercial North America. She was previously vice Interview by Adrianne Pasquarelli president of the large commercial group at Arch Insurance Group. Sorenson Media: Travis Lusk, 32, joined the technology company as vice president of broadcast solutions, a newly created position. He was previously vice president of strategic partnerships at Collective. Cultivating the next hot food startup Hoffmann Architects: Juan Kuriyama, 44, was promoted to vice president and director of architecture. He was previously senior architect. s managing partner of packaged products. I realized that expanded it to nine. The current we’re not investing in businesses Aimee Ventura, 50, was promoted to AccelFoods, the year- the consumer space lacked organi- class,which started in February,will where people are making products senior business development manager. old food and beverage zations that offered infrastructure to graduate in October with a show- out of their kitchens.These are busi- She was previously business accelerator and invest- early-stage entrepreneurs.Accelera- case of their efforts. Companies go nesses capable of going onto the development manager. ment fund she co- tors in other industries have been through a structured program that shelves of Whole Foods or Kroger. Kristin Holtgrew, 30, was promoted to founded in Manhattan, Jordan successful in creating an ecosystem includes weekly conference calls. senior project coordinator. She was A Gaspar is on a mission to discover to surround entrepreneurs. Our We kick off with a boot camp.A big previously project coordinator. the next big thing in packaged edi- launch was January 2014. difference between us and a typical True North Inc.: Sarah Tucker, 38, joined the advertising agency as client bles and turn it into an everyday accelerator is that our brands never development manager, a newly created household staple. How do you choose the companies in really graduate. We have Demo position. She was previously director of The 36-year-old mother of two, your portfolio? Day, a showcase of their accom- partnerships at Liiv.com. who counts a FreshDirect executive We apply a holistic perspective in plishments, but it’s not intended to Compass: Mike Fabbri, 28, joined the and Craft’s Tom Colicchio on her how we look at each investment de- be a launch of their fundraising ef- tech-driven real estate platform as senior board of advisers, has sampled cision. We spoke to almost 600 forts. We build a partnership with manager of agent marketing and brand everything from cricket-flour pro- companies for the current class. our brands, and we stay engaged. strategy. He was previously director of tein bars to baked jicama chips The network is very supportive of There’s multidimensional support. digital and social media at Douglas through her fund, which offers us in directing early-stage entre- Elliman. RAND Engineering & mentors, infrastructure and finan- preneurs to AccelFoods as a re- What brands are currently in your Architecture, DPC: cial backing to about eight compa- source. Entrepreneurs coming to portfolio? Jeffrey Stein, 55, joined nies each year. market are looking for operation Element Snacks, a chocolate, the building systems support to scale the business. We fruit-coated rice cake that is 80 and design evaluation Why is food such a hot area right now have over 150 people affiliated with calories,and Jica Chips,which is firm as business for startups? us who are advocates for Accel. a salty snack. Also Bandar development manager. On the investor side, it’s been an Ultimately, we work with eight Foods, an Indian-influenced He was previously acquisition-focused cli- companies a year. The condiment;Freshbar,a refrig- senior director of advertising sales and marketing at mate where the [investors] WHERE companies range in size erated fresh oat-and-fruit Habitat magazine. are interested in earlier- THEY from pre-revenue to $1 bar; Cowspun Coconut, a White & Case: Judah Frogel, 37, joined stage companies. It’s no million in revenue.We’re dairy-free, soy-free dessert; the law firm as a partner in the global longer Mom having baked DINED constantly getting feed- and Pod Life, an Australian banking practice. He was previously an something exciting and SARABETH’S back from the brands to redomiciled company that analyst at Covenant Review. she wants to launch it into 381 Park Ave. So. make sure our platform makes an on-the-go shaker for HNTB Corp.: Shoukat Ali, 76, joined the a scalable business. We (212) 335-0093 is addressing their needs. things like protein powder. infrastructure services firm as senior now see sophisticated,pol- sarabeth.com traction-power engineer. He was Do brands need to relocate Another food accelerator, X-Foods, ished, educated entrepre- AMBIENCE: formerly manager of traction power at to your local offices? has launched in New York. How are Parsons Brinckerhoff. neurs. On the consumer Wide booths and Joe Marcello, 53, joined as senior rail side, there’s been an in- blond wood lend We’re working out of [the you handling such competition? project manager. He was formerly senior crease in lifestyle educa- an aura of office-sharing site] We- It’s great that so many re- spaciousness not program manager at New Jersey Transit tion where brands are res- usually seen in Work, by Grand Central sources are coming in to sup- Corp. onating with people. Manhattan Terminal. We are entre- port entrepreneurs and food. Victor Corazza, 54, joined as safety Moms are buying more preneurs,so it allows us to Our platform is differentiated manager. He was formerly department WHAT THEY ATE: products to accommodate have that climate around in that we are exclusively work- manager at AECOM. allergen-afflicted family Oatmeal with us but keep our costs ing with packaged products. Scott Halsey, 43, joined as project bananas and members, for example. strawberries, down. We understand controls manager. He was formerly a How are some of the brands project engineer at Kiewit Sons. There’s an entire genera- coffee what entrepreneurs are TD Bank: Robert F. tion eating predominantly Oatmeal with going through because from your first class doing now? Pinard, 30, was organic products, and as a apples and brown we have been living it. Exo [which makes cricket- promoted to store result of that, parents have sugar, coffee We’re not staying at the flour protein bars] is really manager of the changed their household PRICE: Four Seasons when we go leading the charge in the Greenwich and purchasing decisions. And $30.04, including to trade shows, and we’ve sustainable protein move- Eighth avenues the aging baby-boomer tip been known to take red- ment and gaining exposure location. He was generation is looking to eyes to get places in a cost- for consumption of edible previously sales and service manager at the find natural alternatives and reme- efficient way. We also perform the insects.The business is final- 14th Street and Fifth Avenue location. dies to traditional medicine. process of the accelerator virtually ly performing beyond expec- Frankfurt Kurnit Klien & Selz, PC: Craig through conference calls and Google tations. They’re not the only Whitney, 38, joined the law firm as How did AccelFoods get started? Hangouts. There is not a require- success story, though. partner. He was previously of counsel at I like to joke that I’m a reformed cor- ment for our brands to relocate [to Morrison & Foerster LLP. porate lawyer.I practiced in middle- New York]. Brands are nationwide, What are the dangers of Houlihan Lawrence: Sloane Worth, 46, market private equity and did a lot of but we do work with international investing in the food business? joined the real estate group as associate consumer-focused transactions. companies who are willing to re- It’s risky investing in early- real estate broker. She was previously From there, I went on to found a domicile. stage companies overall. You commercial litigation attorney at Law Offices of William Hart LLP. catering business, but ultimately it have to have the enthusiasm Tom Coughlin Jay Fund: Lynn Chwatsky, wasn’t the area of the market I want- How long is Accel’s program? and the passion for that type of 41, joined the nonprofit charity as ed to be in. I was more interested in The program was originally de- investment. People do think managing director of New York/New the food space and working with signed to be five months, but we’ve about quality concerns, but buck ennis Jersey. She was previously vice president of community outreach initiatives and partnerships at nonprofit Sesame Workshop. PLAY/LIST People, places and things that make Jordan Gaspar tick —thaddeus rutkowski GROCERY CART MUST: cricket-flour bars are now a regular of Cards, as well as Game of Thrones. California EXECUTIVE PROMOTIONS Fresh produce. “I always have fruit—as in her kitchen. “You have to have an to meet me for The fastest way to get an announcement into many kinds as possible—with my small appreciation for food to be in the TIME OFF … OR NOT: the week.” Crain’s is to submit online. Fill out the form children at home.” business we’re in.” She recently visited Los Angeles to at www.crainsnewyork.com/section/ executive_moves. The Executive Moves column see family and friends. “We had a RADIO JAMS: is also available online. ADVENTUROUS EATER: ON THE SMALL SCREEN: conference in San Francisco, so my Anything on Z100. “I’m such a New Ms. Gaspar has eaten zebra, and She’s watching season three of House husband brought my kids out to Yorker.”

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SNAPS Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club 100th anniversary gala raises nearly $900,000 The Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club celebrated its 100th anniversary of service to children at Cipriani 42nd Street on April 1. The club started out mentoring 105 boys in Manhattan; in 1969, it moved to the Bronx, where it provides serv- ices to 12,000 children in club- houses, schools and community centers. As part of the fundraiser, paint company Farrow & Ball will donate $1 to the organization for every tweet using the hashtag #KipsBayDonation.

DANIEL QUINTERO, executive director of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, and Bronx Borough President RUBÉN DÍAZ JR. at the event, which raised nearly $900,000 to finance after-school programs. architectural digestarchitectural photos, will ragozzino/bfanyc.com ED KELLY, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club board member; AERIN LAUDER, style director of Estée Lauder Cos.; JAMES DRUCKMAN, the club’s board president; and ALESSANDRO FABRINI, president and CEO of lifestyle brand Aerin, at the Kips Bay event.

Also at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club gala: designer RICHARD MISHAAN, dinner vice chair; SIMON DOONAN, creative ambassador- at-large of Barneys New York; designer BUNNY WILLIAMS, dinner chair; ceramist CHRISTOPHER SPITZMILLER, dinner vice chair; and designer JAMIE DRAKE, dinner vice chair. national yiddish theater folksbiene photos, folksbiene theater yiddish national hess kate At the gala for the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene: gala chairman and developer BRUCE RATNER; honoree SANFORD I. WEILL, former Citigroup chair; honoree JORDAN ROTH, president of Jujamcyn Theaters; and JEFFREY WIESENFELD, chairman of the NYTF board.

Violinist ITZHAK PERLMAN and actress TOVAH FELDSHUH at the 100th anniversary concert and gala Honoree COLBERT NARCISSE, a Morgan Stanley managing director; JEAN SHAFIROFF, for the National Yiddish gala chair; ELSIE MCCABE THOMPSON, New York City Mission Society president; and Theater Folksbiene on March honoree and lawyer HOLLIS RUSSELL at the April 1 fundraiser for the Mission Society, 31 at Carnegie Hall. The which provides a variety of social services in Harlem and the Bronx. event raised more than $1 million for the NYTF, the longest consecutively Mission Society board members JOHN and PEGGY BADER producing Yiddish theater at the event at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, which raised

company in the world. $600,000 for the organization. society mission anyc photos, nnie watt

See more of this week’s Snaps online at CrainsNewYork.com/galleries.

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for marine planning and engineering for Cresa New York. The landlord was ranging from $115.77 to $116.00 per the Urban Assembly New York Harbor represented by James Famularo of share between April 7 and April 8, in a ABOUT THIS SECTION School. The contract is valid for five Eastern Consolidated. The asking rent transaction worth $8,833,628. He now FOR THE RECORD is a weekly listing of information from the public record years, tentatively starting in the was not disclosed. directly holds 2,360,290 shares. that can help businesspeople in the New York area find opportunities, fall/winter of 2016. Visit vendorportal.nycenet.edu to download ● Gregorys Coffee signed a 15-year Sammy Aaron, director and chairman, potential new clients and updates on competitors. the RFP (the document is labeled RFP lease for 1,000 square feet in the lobby of sold 25,000 shares of common stock at a To ask questions or get more information on this section, contact R1059). To make inquiries, contact the 16 Court St. in Brooklyn, the company’s price of $109.51 on March 26, in a Crain’s research department at [email protected]. Vendor Hotline at (718) 935-2300 or first location in the borough. transaction worth $2,737,775. He now [email protected]. directly holds 246,850 shares.

● Department of Parks and Recreation STOCK TRANSACTIONS ● Time Warner Cable (TWC) NEW IN TOWN with the largest unsecured claims are 24 Seeks competitive sealed proposals by 3 Gail MacKinnon, executive vice W. 40th Associates, owed $146,241; p.m. on May 11 for the sale of specialty Following are recent insider transactions at president and chief government relations Companies that would like to have details Samson Management Co., owed food from mobile units at various New York’s largest publicly held companies officer, exercised options on 11,586 of openings published should submit $120,000; and Twin Produce, owed locations citywide. To make inquiries, filed with the Securities and Exchange shares of common stock at prices descriptions following this format to cnyb- $8,683. contact Santiago Zindel at (212) 360- Commission by executives and major ranging from $45.15 to $86.76 per share [email protected], with “New 3407 or [email protected]. shareholders. Listings are in order of between April 6 and April 7, in a in Town” in the subject line. ● City Island Beer Co. transaction value.The information was transaction worth $826,236. During the 163 Reville St., Bronx ● Housing Authority obtained from Thomson Reuters. same period, she sold 11,586 shares at ● Flying Tiger Copenhagen Filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Requests proposals by 10 a.m. on May 7 prices ranging from $153.59 to $154.69 Broadway and West 21st Street protection on April 9. The filing cites for the emergency rental and installation ● G-III Apparel Group Ltd. (GIII) per share, in a transaction worth The Danish design store, popular for its estimated assets of $100,001 to of mobile steam boilers and ancillary Morris Goldfarb, chief executive, sold $1,779,495. She now directly holds quirky and affordably priced home items, $500,000 and estimated liabilities of equipment in Hurricane Flood Zone A. 76,219 shares of common stock at prices 13,661 shares. Ⅲ toys, electronics, trinkets and accessories, $0 to $50,000. The creditors with the The term of the contract is two years. will open its first flagship store in the largest unsecured claims are Chase For the RFQ number, visit U.S., on May 16, in the Flatiron district. Bank, owed $4,828.64, and Mount Tom nyc.gov/nychabusiness. For a The 5,000-square-foot outpost will be Box Co., owed $1,646.20. nonelectronic paper document, send a DEALS ROUNDUP the first of several new locations for the nonrefundable $25 fee via money order chain in New York City. ● Club Cats or certified check to NYCHA Finance 10007 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn Dept., 90 Church St., sixth floor. To TRANSACTION SIZE ● Hudson Garden Grill Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy make inquiries, contact Erneste Pierre- TARGET/SELLERS (IN MILLIONS) BUYERS/INVESTORS TRANSACTION TYPE 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx protection on April 3. The filing cites Louis at (212) 306-3609 or Informatica Corp./ $5,321.0 Canada Pension Plan FB M&A Restaurateur Stephen Starr’s intimate estimated assets of $0 to $50,000 and [email protected]. Management; Elliott Columbia Wanger Asset restaurant opened in the Ross Conifer estimated liabilities of $500,001 to Management Corp. (Manhattan); Investment Board; Permira Scopia Capital Management Advisers Ltd. Arboretum. The multicourse menu $1 million. The creditors with the largest (Manhattan); T. Rowe Price spotlights New American cuisine and unsecured claims are NYC Taxation and REAL ESTATE DEALS Associates Inc. features dishes made with locally Finance, owed $137,032.20; Snuggles TNT Express N.V./ $5,007.5 FedEx Corp. SB M&A sourced, ethically produced ingredients Realty Corp., owed $100,000; and Cats Companies that would like to have details BlackRock Inc. from Hudson Valley farms and other on the Bay, owed $93,000. of their recent transactions appear in these (Manhattan); regional producers. listings should email descriptions following First Eagle Investment ● Evergreen Electrical Corp. this format to cnyb-research@crainsnew Management (Manhattan); ● William Okpo 4223 First Ave., Brooklyn york.com, with “Real estate transaction” in Investec Asset Management 4 Fulton St., South Street Seaport Filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy the subject line, or enter them online at Ltd.; PostNL N.V.; Tweedy Lizzy and Darlene Okpo, designing duo protection on April 4. The filing cites crainsnewyork.com/submitadeal. Deals are Browne Co.; UBS AG investment arm behind red-hot label William Okpo, estimated assets of $500,001 to listed in order of square footage. opened a flagship store at South Street $1 million and estimated liabilities of Excel Trust Inc./ $1,963.9 Blackstone Real Estate SB M&A Seaport. This is the first store by the $1,000,001 to $10 million. The creditors COMMERCIAL Fidelity Management & Advisors (Manhattan) ● Research Co.; Vanguard Okpo sisters, whose womenswear label with the largest unsecured claims are Fora Financial signed a seven-year Group Inc.; Levine Investments is inspired by their father, for whom it is Aura Electrical Supply Inc., owed lease for 16,000 square feet at 519 Eighth Ave. AHS Medical Holdings/ $1,750.0 Ventas Inc. SB M&A named. $190,741; L.I. Electrical Distributing, The company will occupy the 11th Apollo Global Management owed $182,478; and Check Relief, owed floor of the property. It also has 9,000 (Manhattan); Clayton $166,000. square feet at 242 W. 36th St. The Associates; COMPANY MOVES tenant was represented by Gregory Ferrer Freeman & Co.; Skaler of Cushman & Wakefield.The Ridgemont Equity Partners; Companies that would like to have details GOVERNMENT CONTRACT landlord, the Kaufman Organization, Welsh Carson Anderson & of recent moves published should submit OPPORTUNITIES was represented by Steven Kaufman and Stowe (Manhattan) descriptions following this format to Barbara Raskob. Asking rents were in TrustWave Holdings Inc./ $810.0 Singapore Telecommunications SB M&A [email protected], Following are selected contract the $40s per square foot. Alpine Meridian Inc. Ltd. (98%) with “Company Moves” in the subject line. opportunities recently announced by New investment arm (Manhattan); ● First Analysis Corp.; FTV York City agencies.To learn how to sell Miami Ad School signed a lease for Capital; Globespan ● BFX Studio goods and services to city government, visit 11,800 square feet at Offices at the Capital Partners; Industry 30 Broad St. www.nyc.gov/selltonyc. For a searchable Square, 35-37 36th St., Long Island Ventures; JMI Equity; Boutique fitness gym BFX Studio database of current procurement notices, City, Queens. The school will relocate Kelso Place Asset Management; opened in the financial district, its visit www.nyc.gov/cityrecord. Listings are from its Brooklyn campus in June. The Prism Capital Corp.; second outpost in Manhattan. The alphabetical by category and department. length of the lease was not disclosed. Rosetta Capital Corp.; location features BFX’s entire roster of The tenant was represented by Brian Sigma Prime Ventures; CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Argentum Group (Manhattan); classes, including spinning in a stadium- Leary and Rich Novak of CPEX Real Updata Partners style studio and personal training. ● Department of Design and Construction Estate. The landlord, Emmes Asset Zep Inc./ $703.5 New Mountain Capital (Manhattan) FB M&A Seeks competitive sealed bids by 2 p.m. Management, was represented by Corey Deutsche Investment on May 12 for energy-conservation Horowitz and Ethan Silverstein of Management BANKRUPTCIES measures at three Department of Cushman & Wakefield, and Ellen Israel, Americas Inc. (Manhattan); Sanitation sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Kristen Morgan and Greg Smith of JRT GAMCO Asset Management; The following listings are selected from the Staten Island. A bid-document deposit of Realty Group. The asking rent was not Heartland Advisors Inc. most recent available filings by companies $35, payable by company check or money disclosed. Baltic Trading Ltd./ $283.4 Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. SB M&A seeking bankruptcy protection in the order, is required.To make inquiries, Apollo Global Management (Manhattan) (89.5%) Southern and Eastern Districts of New contact Emmanuel Charles at (718) 391- ● Proprietary-trading broker-dealer (Manhattan); Centerbridge Partners York. Information was obtained from U.S. 3170 or [email protected]. Chimera Securities signed a lease for (Manhattan); Genco Investments Bankruptcy Court records available on 11,600 square feet at 27 Union Square (Manhattan); Panning Capital Management (Manhattan) Public Access to Court Electronic Records. ● Department of Parks and Recreation West.The length of the lease was not Listings are in alphabetical order. Seeks competitive sealed bids by 10:30 disclosed.The firm, which is moving its Domo Inc./not disclosed $200.0 BlackRock Inc. (Manhattan); GCI a.m. on May 7 for construction of a current headquarters on Park Avenue GGV Capital; Glynn Capital ● Allstate Realty USA Corp. Management; Capital Group comfort station at Aqueduct Avenue South, will occupy the entire fourth floor Companies 5308 13th Ave., Brooklyn East, between West 182nd and West of the building when it moves this Prosper Marketplace Inc./ $165.0 BBVA Ventures; Breyer Capital; GCI Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 183rd streets, Bronx. Bid documents are summer.The tenant was represented by not disclosed Credit Suisse Asset Management protection on March 31. The filing cites available in the Blueprint Room, Room Dmitry Levkov of Colliers International. (Manhattan); JPMorgan Asset estimated assets of $50,001 to $100,000 64, Olmsted Center, Flushing Meadows The landlord, Newmark Holdings, was Management Inc.(Manhattan); and estimated liabilities of $100,001 to Corona Park, for a $25 fee payable by represented in-house by Eric Gural.The Neuberger Berman Group $500,000. company check or money order to City asking rent was not disclosed. (Manhattan); Passport Capital; of New York, Parks and Recreation. To SunTrust Equity Funding; ● Basic Food Group d/b/a Zeytinz make inquiries, contact Michael RETAIL United Services Automobile Association 24 W. 40th St. Shipman at (718) 760-6705 or ● Spring Street Natural signed a lease Selected deals announced for the week ended April 9 involving companies in metro New York. Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy [email protected]. for 5,000 square feet at 98 Kenmare St. FB M&A: Financial buyer M&A represents a minority or majority acquisition of existing protection on April 10. The filing cites The length of the lease was not shares of a company with the participation of a financial buyer. SB M&A: Strategic buyer M&A represents a minority or majority acquisition of existing shares of a company without the estimated assets of $1,000,001 to $10 GOODS AND SERVICES disclosed. The shop is relocating from its participation of a financial buyer. GCI: Growth capital investment represents new money ● million and estimated liabilities of Department of Education current outpost on Spring Street. The invested in a company for a minority stake. source: capitaliq $1,000,001 to $10 million. The creditors Requests proposals by 1 p.m. on May 1 tenant was represented by Sam Mann of

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