Crain's New York Business

1. Long Island City may go commercial: high-occupancy zone under study.
Plans are being developed to turn a 36-block area in Long Island City into a major commercial district. If rezoning is approved, the triangular patch ...
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2. Easier credit for Hispanic firms: but Wells Fargo's new lending effort...
Just ask Alberto Martinez how hard it is to come by $30,000, and the 56-year-old immigrant from Argentina will smile and confess, somewhat sheepishly, that ...
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3. Missing the show boat: the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center isn't...
Jeff Little has a money-losing space problem. As president of George Little Management Inc., a White Plains-based trade show organization, he reluctantly turned away about ...
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4. Planners get foreign policy; as city companiess go international, they look...
As increasing numbers of U.S. companies go global, far-flung meetings are becoming the norm. Consider The Conference Board Inc. in New York, a membership organization ...
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5. Technology speeches for dummies: presenters must forgo jargon, take time to...
Laurie Pratt, vice president for the telecommunications and technology division of the Institute for International Research in Manhattan,was listening to a speech on technology at ...
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6. Marketing northern New Jersey: drive under way to create CVB, but bed-tax...
Amid the swamp grass of Secaucus, N.J., the convention center that Robin Cuneo runs is usually abuzz. A who's who of New Jersey corporations stage ...
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7. Next on agenda: hotel renovations. (includes related article on hotel...
More planners now must build construction into event schedule Richard Aaron knows bad news when he hears it, and the din of sanding and hammering ...
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8. EAB steps up effort to colonize New York; L.I. bank starts blitz to grow...
L.I. bank starts blitz to grow share in feud over smaller clients About three years ago, Robert Buford, managing partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, ...
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9. Filling the big brown bag: Bloomie's GM welcomes Santa, plans to...
Stephen Spiro is no Grinch. That's why the new general manager of Bloomingdale's 59th Street store was so distressed by tabloid reports that Bloomie's was ...
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10. Bill aims to tighten BID guidelines; councilman moves to boost local...
City Councilman Herbert Berman, D-Brooklyn, proposed legislation that would establish tougher requirements for the creation of business improvement districts. While many BIDs have successfully spruced ...
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