20100920-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 9/17/2010 7:40 PM Page 1 INSIDE Michael Gross TOP STORIES on NY’s Apartment rentals battling are slowing again. news Freebies, anyone? ® barons PAGE 2 P. 2 Runway shows rewind to VOL. XXVI, NO. 38 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2010 PRICE: $3.00 looks from the 1970s PAGE 2 $200M Typically quiet tug-of-war changing of the guard at looming Wiley & Sons PAGE 3 downtown If you think it’s bad on Wall Street now, Utilities face off with just wait culture groups and others in battle over PAGE 3 unspent 9/11 funds Algonquin’s Round Table sets a place BY THERESA AGOVINO for Marriott as a government agency set up to NEW YORK, NEW YORK, P. 6 help rebuild Ground Zero and environs after the Sept. 11 attacks nears the end of its mission, a major battle is building over the fate of the approximately $200 million that’s still left in its kitty. BUSINESS LIVES On one side are Consolidated Edi- son and Verizon,which say the vast ma- jority rightfully belongs to them be- cause it came from a fund that was primarily earmarked for utilities. On the other, a group of people are arguing for a broader use of the funds.Their po- sitions were hugely bolstered earlier this month when the board of the Low- er Manhattan Development Corp.vot- ed to allow the cash to be used for a mul- titude of purposes. GOTHAM GIGS See DOWNTOWN’S on Page 30 Meet a different kind of delivery guy P. 33 G ANNE FISHER on buck ennis social networking for budding tycoons P. 33 Primaries’ G MOVERS & SHAKERS Adam Klein is making deadly beautiful eMusic P. 34 G GAEL GREENE takes a bite out of Eataly P. 35 NEW FACE OF LABOR fallout From busboys to nannies to taxi drivers, GOP Chairman Cox INDEX loses—big-time. One IN THE MARKETS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _4 workers discover fresh ways to organize winner: gay marriage THE INSIDER _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8 REAL ESTATE DEALS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _12 work force,”the 62-year-old Barbados native recalls BY DANIEL MASSEY BY ERIK ENGQUIST NEIGHBORHOOD JOURNAL _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _14 thinking. The signing marked the climax of a six-year cam- FOR THE RECORD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _15 late last month, as Gov. David Paterson signed paign by Domestic Workers United to gain long- last week’s election was a disaster CLASSIFIEDS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _27 the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights into law at a denied rights for nannies and housekeepers.But the for some candidates—it’s hard to imag- HOT JOBS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _33 Harlem community center, Barbara Young, a nanny 200,000 workers who stand to gain from the new ine Rick Lazio resurrecting his political EXECUTIVE MOVES _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _33 for 17 years, could barely contain her glee. law are not the only group whose prospects look career after his crushing defeat by Carl THE WEEK AHEAD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _35 “After so many years and so many people de- brighter. Organizations that represent workers Paladino in the Republican gubernato- pending on us, we are now recognized as part of the See THEY’RE THE NEW on Page 30 rial primary—but it also damaged some who were not on the ballot.The effects will likely reverberate in November’s 38 5 SPECIAL REPORT: election and beyond. The demise of Mr. Lazio, who was WHY CAN’T THIS SMALL his party’s formal nominee, dealt what P. 17 may be a fatal blow to state Republican ELECTRONIC EDITION BUSINESS GET A LOAN? Chairman Edward Cox. Mr. Cox had recruited Suffolk County Executive NEWSPAPER Plus: Top Women-Owned Companies See PRIMARIES’ on Page 8 71486 01068 0 20100920-NEWS--0002,0003-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 9/17/2010 7:01 PM Page 1 VIEWPOINT Forget the denials. It’s war for Times, WSJ ne recent sunday, The New York Times went after Rupert Murdoch in a way I hope he admired.The inves- tigation of voicemail hacking by Murdoch’s News of the World belied Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.’s claim in the latest issue getty images O THAT ’70S SHOW BIG PANTS LUXURY FABRICS FALLING HEMLINES LIGHT NEUTRALS of Vanity Fair that his Times and Murdoch’s Wall DESIGNERS from Marc THE WIDE-LEGGED, high- DESIGNERS like BCBG CALF-GRAZING LENGTHS DESIGNERS such as Donna Street Journal are not at war. Jacobs to Tory Burch (above) waisted trouser makes a Max Azria and Jenny from designers such as Karan (above) and Until Murdoch bought the Journal, the drama in were featuring bright stripes comeback in the collections Packham (above) made Nanette Lepore and Narciso Alexander Wang said and colorful styles. of Cynthia Rowley and Jason lavish use of silk and Rodriguez (above) filled the goodbye to black and Wu (above). chiffon. runways. embraced lighter hues. local newspaper- been dimin- ing was the ished, even as its tabloid war be- self-regard re- tween his New mains super- York Post and sized. Boogie nights and Mort Zucker- True, one man’s Daily must give credit News.Now,it’s where it’s due— the broadsheet the Times has a conservative hemlines war that fasci- great website and nates,as the Jour- still leads the nal’s losses and MICHAEL pack in covering Designers entice ingdale’s. “When there’s a change in houses and retailers remain cautious Murdoch’s trou- GROSS hard news and silhouette, you need to refresh your about the coming year. White, blush, bles mount,while mounting big in- consumers with wardrobe—and that’s good news for peach and nude showed up in the col- the Times is so vestigations. But retailers.” lections of everyone from Dennis Basso destabilized that a mere ru- it also has new shortcomings. hybrid of luxury and Fresh items like bell-bottom pants, to Alexander Wang. Even those, like mor that Mexican billionaire The editors of its softer sec- value in spring shows ’70s-inspired styles and luxurious fab- Donna Karan, known for their obses- Carlos Slim was upping his tions used to try to strike a rics show that designers are trying to sion with black lightened up their looks. stake caused its battered balance between high-mind- unshackle themselves from the eco- “Market reports say that things are stock price to spike. ed journalism and pandering. BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI nomic malaise affecting the nation. not getting worse, but they’re not get- The conventional narra- Too often now, they’re just Such new items represent an effort to ting better, either,” says Joanna Man- tive casts Murdoch as a promoting the popular, the consumers should get ready for a force consumers out of their closets ganaro, women’s editor at trend track- down-market Visigoth ob- powerful and products,which style-rewind to the 1970s, the disco- and onto the sales floor. ing firm Stylesight. “Fashion is in a sessed with toppling the es- lowers the bar for Murdoch. driven decade of free love and self-ex- Whether those efforts bear fruit re- state of limbo.” tablished order epitomized A recent animation that pression, come spring 2011. The run- mains to be seen. Fashion Week fol- That didn’t seem to inhibit Marc by the Times, the last bastion streaked across the blogos- ways at New York Fashion Week,which lowed a so-so summer—August same- Jacobs, who in the debut of his spring of rectitude in a media uni- phere ended on a birdcage concluded last Thursday,featured wide- store sales were up a modest 3.4% over collection last Monday was showing verse besieged by coarse pub- lined with the Journal and the leg pants, bright stripes and plunging the weak numbers in August 2009, ac- vivid colors and vamped-up looks lic desire and In- Times.