This paper provides an overview of terrorism concerns with regard to Forest City Ratner's proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards BAY Development in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The issues raised by a possible terrorist attack on the proposed project site include increased project and infrastructure costs, traffic dislocations, local economic impacts, public health...
The Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and creation of high quality blue collar jobs for low income New Yorkers. It wanted to display how clean, renewable energy could be deployed to power a manufacturing facility. In October of 2002, PowerLight Corporation completed...
How does a good idea take hold? Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis knows the answer. The Brooklyn-born new media bad boy has been stirring up money and attention for his projects ever since he founded The Silicon Alley Reporter in 1996. He followed that with Weblogs, Inc., which he sold to...
By Martha Graybow NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal ...
Erick Schonfeld submits: There’s nothing like scarcity to make you want something more. Apple AAPL understands this, which is why it tightly controls how many iPhones are available at any given time. Some anecdotal evidence is coming in that its partner AT&T T is selling out of iPhones in...
I'm still not exactly sure how I would define an oblique strategy, but I do know that they can be most useful for getting me out of a rut. Originally developed by musician/producer Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, these strategies were described by Eno as "a series of prompts...
The college is one of the true jewels in the CUNY crown. Its roomy, oceanside campus and its ample parking and meeting facilities make it a favorite location for university-wide functions. One of the signature buildings for the college is the Marine Academic Center; a recent building topped off with...
NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - The U.S. government is considering bringing further criminal charges in the case involving two former Bear Stearns executives indicted last month related to the collapse of two hedge funds they oversaw, a federal prosecutor said on Friday. In a court...
New York City's first Ikea store opens June 18 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and New Yorkers tired of the trek to Jersey for their Swedish furniture fix are expected to descend en masse on the 346,000-square-foot store. To smoothe the descent, Ikea has made huge commitments to improve public transit...
By Martha Graybow NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. lawyer Brendan Sullivan is joining the defense team of indicted former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi, a person close to the matter said on Tuesday. Sullivan, a trial attorney who has represented...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors are looking into whether two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, who were indicted last week on conspiracy and securities fraud charges for misleading investors, also broke the law in their dealings with banks, BusinessWeek reported...
By Martinne Geller NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Agribusiness giant Cargill CARG is starting to roll out Truvia, its natural, no-calorie sweetener on Wednesday, and expects the product to be on grocery shelves across the U.S. sometime this fall. Truvia is made from certain compounds in...
