Crain's New York Business articles from April 2003

Crain's New York Business archives from April 2003

The Best of Bob Lape.(Dining/Restaurant Review)(Restaurant Review)
April 7, 2003... Brasserie 360 (2 stars) 200 E. 60th St. (at Third Avenue), Manhattan. (212) 688-8688. A mix-and-match dining duplex brings hearty brasserie and arty sushi skills to Bloomingdale's country. Enjoy sashimi and steak on either floor, and don't...

Free trials of Insider fax.(News)
April 7, 2003... Crain's offers free two-week trial subscriptions to The Crain's Insider, a daily fax covering government and political issues of importance to business executives, lobbyists and others interested in the inner workings of city and state...

Bronx filtration plant rift; Deadline nears for city to win Assembly support; next stop, Westchester.(News)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: philip lentz Facing a mid-April deadline, the Bloomberg administration and the construction industry are strenuously lobbying Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to support a controversial $1.3 billion filtration plant in Van Cortlandt...

State massages Healthy NY plan; Changes designed to boost enrollment of small businesses.(News)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: mary sisson The state is changing Healthy New York to encourage enrollment in the program, which subsidizes health insurance for small businesses and individuals. The changes, which will go into full effect June 1, are designed to...

SoHo reinvents itself as high-end shops leave; Funkier merchants expected; retro-chic shoes, youthful apparel are hits.(Real Estate)
April 7, 2003... Byline: lore croghan There's not much left inside the Vivienne Westwood store at 71 Greene St., other than a pair of Swarovski crystal chandeliers and a gaggle of mannequins. The high priestess of avant garde British fashion has pulled...

The Weeks Ahead.(Calendar/Datebook)(Calendar)
April 7, 2003... Byline: anne apuzzo this week's events April 8. Consulting Resources New York holds senior consultant's circle with a professional career coach. 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., 340 E. 57th St., fourth floor. Fee: $70. (212) 317-1434. ...

Executive Moves.(announces various executive appointments and promotions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: joao h. rodrigues ACCOUNTING & CONSULTING Berdon: Alan Mandelbaum, 50, was promoted to principal at the accounting and advisory firm. He was formerly a manager. Paresh Patel, 48, was promoted to principal. He was formerly a...

Kalikow discusses the MTA's plans and finances; CRAIN'S BREAKFAST FORUM, APRIL 30.(Peter Kalikow, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to discuss agency's upcoming fare hike, finances and capital plans)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Peter kalikow, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will discuss the agency's upcoming fare hike, its finances and its capital plans at the next Crain's New York Business breakfast forum, on Wednesday, April 30. The forum...

The WTC land swap must fly.(Viewpoint)(Editorial)
April 7, 2003... When word first surfaced that the city was seeking control of the World Trade Center site in return for giving the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey ownership of New York's two airports, the reaction was favorable. Now that progress is...

Short-notice meetings short-circuit planners; Economy, world events shave prep time; some hotels hold line on price.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Gina Scheckman Last December, Jules del Vecchio had only three weeks to pull together a conference for 230 managing and senior partners of New York Life Insurance Co. ``Our head of distribution had a message to deliver to the...

Organizers battle block busters; Try to combat attendees booking their own rooms at low online rates.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: victoria rivkin The growing alliances between hotels and online discount travel sites are seriously hurting the business of meeting planners-and often embarrassing them as well. Event attendees are finding on the Internet lower...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
April 7, 2003... * Columbia University provided incorrect figures for the March 10 list of New York City's largest employers. Columbia's number of New York City employees in 2002 was 12,143, making its rank No. 11. * The NBC show Ed has not been canceled at...

New York, New York.(Briefs)(various news items)
April 7, 2003... Byline: edited by Emily DeNitto Former Limelight goes dark It looks like real estate investor Ben Ashkenazy is ending his foray into the city's club scene: He's selling the landmarked property on Sixth Avenue and West 20th Street that...

Mitchell-Lama tenants seek bailout in Albany; They push for legislation to block conversions and move to market rents.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: philip lentz Tenant advocates are looking to Albany to try to block some owners of Mitchell-Lama projects from leaving the program and renting their apartments at market rates. Advocates say that they want to protect affordable...

Grocer finds online strategy that delivers; FreshDirect hits sales, customer goals early.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Lisa Fickenscher Last Tuesday, Joe Fedele stepped into his cluttered Long Island City, Queens, office, flipped on his computer and settled back to enjoy the show. First, there was the overnight sales report showing that his...

Small Business: Sole proprietors get no insurance break; Cheaper health coverage available, but city groups don't offer the plan.(Small Business)
April 7, 2003... Byline: tina traster A new state law that gives sole proprietors access to less expensive health insurance through plans offered by chambers of commerce and business associations has brought big savings to thousands of upstate...

Reading Palms to stay in touch; Handhelds keep conferees au courant on business, pleasure; vendors home in.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: john kimelman In each of the past two years, the nearly 1,500 people attending the annual meeting of the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education received a memorable freebie upon signing in-a...

With Americans at war, return to Korea seems right.(Viewpoint)
April 7, 2003... Byline: James Brady On the assumption that North Korea could be the new Iraq except bigger, by the time this appears I will have been over there for a week or 10 days. Not really my idea. But with tensions building, the loonies firmly...

Staten Island outlook; Conference, April 29.(Real Estate)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... New york stock exchange chairman richard Grasso will be a featured speaker at the fifth annual Staten Island Conference, to be held on Tuesday, April 29, at the Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island. The event, sponsored by the Staten Island...

Rerouting risky incentive travel.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Incentive travel programs, historically planned years in advance in order to secure the best deals and entice employees to qualify for trips, are also being pulled together in much less time. In part, this is because some incentive travel...

Sympathy for New York fades with the economy; Solidarity erodes; city judged on expense, safety.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: fran hawthorne The American Society of Travel Agents was scheduled to hold its annual convention in Seville, Spain, in November 2001-until the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Out of prudence and patriotism, ASTA quickly...

At Deadline.(Late News)(briefs)
April 7, 2003... American delays terminal at JFK american airlines is in talks with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey about slowing down and scaling back construction of American's new terminal at JFK International Airport. The airline, which is...

TV stations cover zone but don't gain ground; Rankings static for network outlets; advertisers avoid the battlefields.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: valerie block Wearing a cotton shirt with the sleeves rolled up, WABC's Jim Dolan earnestly recapped the latest war news last week from his perch overlooking the arid landscape of Qatar. An American Black Hawk helicopter had been...

Government Alert: Battle over Park Slope rezoning plan; Mayor's office warns City Council critics; insurance extension stalls in Albany.(Briefs)
April 7, 2003... The bloomberg administration is prepared to play hardball to gain City Council approval of its Park Slope rezoning proposal, which was approved by the City Planning Commission last week. Insiders say city officials have warned council...

Link connects casual cool to affordable high taste; Youthful bistro plays to neighborhood.(Dining/Restaurant Review)(Restaurant Review)
April 7, 2003... Byline: bob lape Missing link would be a shame. Chef Julian Clauss-Ehlers makes global culinary connections with skill and big bang for the buck in a 50-seat bistro virtually hidden behind Link, the lively lounge and bar in the Zeckendorf...

Upstarts, big names vie for windfall; Independent-minded stock research firms seek $450 million settlement bonanza.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: aaron elstein When investment banker Guy Cohen learned that big Wall Street brokerage firms would soon be required to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of stock picks, he decided he wanted a piece of the action. In February,...

Upping volume in executive suite; Def Jam chief aims to enter corporate sphere; can success outweigh industry's image?(News)(Kevin Liles)
April 7, 2003... Byline: samantha marshall As he walks into his favorite Manhattan lunch spot, Palm West, Def Jam President Kevin Liles is greeted by a dozen media and entertainment moguls and given a bear hug by a Showtime executive. Judging by the...

CSFB money managers under pressure; New chief has a major turnaround to pull off; could unit go on block?(News)(Credit Suisse First Boston Corp., Michael Kenneally appointed at Credit Suisse Asset Management)
April 7, 2003... Byline: frederick gabriel A little more than a year into a high-stakes makeover, Credit Suisse Asset Management is waging an uphill battle to improve its investment performance. The Manhattan-based firm, which manages nearly $300...

CVBs will party with anyone; Desperate cities targeting everything from trade shows to family reunions.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)(convention and visitors bureaus)
April 7, 2003... Byline: judith messina Meeting planner Michael Hudson is slightly shocked at some of the deals he's being offered these days by hungry convention and visitors bureaus. One CVB, in Arlington, Texas, even offered to do the meet-and-greet at...

New Executive: Leading by example; Recruiting firm chief helps dispel myths of corporate diversity through his own career.(Profiles)(Kenneth Roldan of Wesley Brown & Bartle Co.)
April 7, 2003... Byline: stephen gandel Even at a young age, Kenneth Roldan ignored the obstacles that arose from his being a minority. In high school, the Bronx-born top student was told by his guidance counselor that he had no chance of getting into...

Designer collection; NYC's fashion industry grows.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: catherine curan Up-and-coming designers Alexandre Plokhov and Robert Geller of Cloak had just closed a deal for headquarters space in an up-and-coming neighborhood, the meatpacking district. They decided to celebrate at local hot...

Reprints from Crain's.(News)
April 7, 2003... Crain's New York Business offers reprints of the articles it publishes. The reprints can include photos that accompany the story. For an estimate, please contact Erica Montgomery at Reprint Management Services, (717) 399-1900, ext. 142, or...

Hospitals go all out in fight against costs; Layoffs and closings to escalate.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: mary sisson After years of declining health, New York hospitals have slipped onto the critical list and are being forced to ax staff and prune facilities to survive. Since the beginning of the year, three area hospitals have...

Theaters follow wartime scripts; Many plays critical of administration policies; box-office results mixed.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: miriam kreinin souccar Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is hard at work on a new play. The first scene, which was recently excerpted in The Nation, opens with first lady Laura Bush reading to a group of Iraqi children....

Protesters aim to disrupt local targets; Carlyle spotlighted as profiteer.(News)
April 7, 2003... Byline: jacqueline s. gold Two weeks ago, traffic in front of Rockefeller Center screeched to a halt when antiwar demonstrators staged a ``die-in'' to protest NBC coverage of the U.S. war in Iraq. A repeat performance is scheduled this...

Hotel contracts allow more escape clauses; Terrorism, war cause for cancellation.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: matthew flamm The Marx Hotels Group is only a year and a half old, but the hotelier has already encountered the new state of affairs in the meetings and conventions business at its Syracuse, N.Y., property. Recently, a large...

Planners raise the bar on security; Work more closely with venues on safety, evacuation, postdisaster details.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: tina traster Planning off-site meetings for KPMG now requires Karen Pontius, the firm's Northeast meeting manager, to spend unprecedented time and energy on security details. Ms. Pontius has made it mandatory for employees to...

Financial fixture going residential; Brown Brothers' headquarters to be converted; Fifth Ave. sublets taken.(Real Estate)(briefs)
April 7, 2003... Byline: lore croghan Residential converter Nathan Berman is buying a stake in 63 Wall St., and plans to turn Brown Brothers Harriman's former headquarters building into an apartment tower. He has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum for a...

Liberation on the home front.(Viewpoint)(patriotism)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Alair Townsend I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve these days. It's not actually a heart; it's an American flag. I've become more patriotic as I've gotten older; I recognize that. But this flag-on-sleeve feeling is more than...

Crain's real estate news on the Web; www.crainsny.com.(Real Estate)
April 7, 2003... Crain's new york business offers breaking real estate news all week long on our Web site, located at www.crainsny.com. To register for free e-mail alerts about real estate news, or news in other New York industries, go to the site and click on...

NY and the competition; This snapshot of seven popular big-city destinations for trade shows includes a look at what's new. Data was provided by the cities' convention centers or convention bureaus. Information on average daily meal costs was provided by Runzheimer International, a Rochester, Wis.-based management consulting firm.(Special Report: Meetings & Conventions)
April 7, 2003... Byline: compiled by charles vurno ATLANTA Georgia World Congress Center www.gwcc.com Exhibit space: 1.4 million square feet Metro area hotel rooms: 83,000 Average daily room rate: $136.33 (hotels with more than...

NY's woes not tied to Iraq.(Viewpoint)(Editorial)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Greg David With the war in Iraq headed toward a successful conclusion, many economists believe that the U.S. economy will begin to grow again, since what they call ``geopolitical uncertainty'' has been reduced. Unfortunately,...

The Weeks Ahead.(Calendar/Datebook)(Calendar)
April 14, 2003... Byline: anne apuzzo this week's events april 15. American Business Associates holds business-to-business networking meeting. 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Holliswood Hospital, 87-37 Palermo St., Holliswood, Queens. Fee: $25. Reservations...

Executive Moves.(Profiles)(service industries by type and company, )(Public Notice)
April 14, 2003... Byline: joao h. rodrigues ACCOUNTING & CONSULTING The Gelber Organization: Joe Thiel, 59, joined as vice president, tax services, for the Newark-based accounting and consulting firm. He had been a managing director at Dryden Advisory...

Stock Watch: Pricing, accounting woes hinder cleanup of A&P spill; Investors flee stock; some want firm to concentrate on NY stores.(Stocks)
April 14, 2003... Byline: aaron elstein Five years after a new management team was installed to restore its sagging fortunes, A&P is mired in a price war and an accounting scandal that have driven its stock to less than $5 a share. Few on Wall Street hold...

Dose of hospitality; Medical centers fixate on 5-star patient service.(News)(Ritz-Carlton Hotel director of training addresses high-end customer service in seminar for health care provider)
April 14, 2003... Byline: mary sisson In a luxurious conference room on Long Island, the director of training for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel chain stood before ornate columns and elaborate moldings as he addressed 40 executives on the finer points of high-end...

The Expansionists; Armed with good ideas and existing businesses to fall back on, entrepreneurs are branching out into ambitious new ventures despite the recession.(Small Business)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: shira boss Michael travin and don winter were bored. Their neighborhood newspaper business had matured into a healthy cash cow, and the two entrepreneurs found themselves longing for a fresh struggle. Despite the sliding stock...

Crain's offers business research tools; www.crainsny.com.(News)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Need business research fast? go to www.crainsny.com, where you can find the day's top breaking-news stories, get free access to SEC documents, read articles from the Crain's archives, search for commercial space, see who is changing jobs and...

Retail joins residential rush to finally reshape Chelsea; Stores and eateries follow flood of apartments; lack of big boxes a letdown.(Real Estate)
April 14, 2003... Byline: lisa fickenscher The burgeoning residential population along Sixth and Seventh avenues in Chelsea is beginning to attract a diverse group of retailers. Stores and restaurants of all sizes are moving into the area, riding on the...

IDA incentives aid growth; 4 deals enable revamps, expansions.(Real Estate)(Industrial Development Agency funds major upgrade at US Tennis Association's National Tennis Center)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... The city is providing incentives to boost sports, film production and manufacturing in New York. The United States Tennis Association's National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, netted up to $65 million in tax-exempt and taxable...

Managing editor needed to fit into GQ's makeover; New editor picking team; Frick museum seeks director.(Workplace)
April 14, 2003... Byline: miriam kreinin souccar Ever since jim nelson, executive editor of GQ, was promoted to editor in chief last month, the magazine industry has been waiting anxiously for the fallout. It has just begun. Mr. Nelson's first move was...

Bias claims rising as Arabs face prejudice; Religion-related complaints up 11% in New York; cases hard to prove.(Workplace)
April 14, 2003... Byline: samantha marshall Marwan haddad's career at the deli counter of Balducci's ended abruptly last July. He claims that a co-worker punched him repeatedly and threw him, face down, into the street, landing him in the hospital. He was...

Bulgarian lounge acts left in the Yellow Dust.(Viewpoint)(impressions of Seoul, North Korea)(Column)
April 14, 2003... Byline: James Brady Seoul is a city that, like post-Sept. 11 New York, is entitled to say something about grace under pressure. There are only about 45 million people in South Korea, and 21 million of them reside in greater Seoul. And...

New Strip House puts on show in New Jersey; Chef Walzog's French accents earn 3 stars; leave room for dessert.(Dining/Restaurant Review)(Restaurant Review)
April 14, 2003... Byline: bob lape What a get-together-Paul Robeson, Paul Simon, Lili St. Cyr, Jon Bon Jovi, Mira Sorvino, Abbott and Costello, Gypsy Rose Lee, David Walzog, Ann Corio, Kevin Spacey and stars of the Folies Bergere! All have a hand, face or...

Good even when she's bad; Sterling Group president pushes envelope, even for staid clients.(Profiles)(Debbie Millman, new president of The Sterling Group)
April 14, 2003... Byline: louise kramer Debbie millman tries to make work fun. There are birthday parties for everyone, three weeks of vacation from the start, and sabbaticals at one-quarter pay after seven years. The new president of The Sterling...

Seizing their chances.(Small Business)(fast food entrepreneur, retail clothing business, boys' clothing store; other cast histories)
April 14, 2003... Byline: shira boss Flipping the menu Who: Louis Lanza Old venture: Healthful, tablecloth restaurants New venture: Healthful fastfood joints Why: Speedier route to riches Louis lanza is serious about healthful food....

Verizon hangs DSL hopes on all-in-one hookup; Big marketing push, more digital lines keys to gaining on cable's head start.(News)
April 14, 2003... Byline: anita jain Robert Poppema, a Wall Street stockbroker, says that his home high-speed Internet connection can get pretty slow during peak usage hours. But he wouldn't consider changing providers. Even a significantly lower charge...

New court ruling triples big malpractice award; Total payment for handicapped child will be $140 million.(News)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: mary sisson The New York State Court of Appeals has upheld a malpractice ruling that could award the plaintiffs almost three times what was previously awarded. The case, Desiderio v. Ochs, concerns a child who had a shunt implanted...

Crew of defunct firm's so resilient, it should be illegal; Brobeck technology attorneys find jobs fast, showing diverse industry's health.(News)
April 14, 2003... Byline: tommy fernandez There are worse ways to experience the collapse of a firm. On a Thursday, the firm announces that it's gone bust. That Friday, recruiters max out the voice-mail system pitching job opportunities and even show up...

Humanitarian team struggles to bring aid to postwar Iraq; Manhattan-based IRC, a specialist in such work, faces new hurdles.(War With Iraq)(International Rescue Committee)
April 14, 2003... Byline: miriam kreinin souccar For weeks, 30 aid workers from the International Rescue Committee have been stuck on the sidelines, waiting in Kuwait and Jordan, while the Iraqis they came to help suffered through their worst humanitarian...

Virus threat keeps executives home; Fearing SARS, toy, garment firms ban travel and seek tech alternatives.(News)
April 14, 2003... Byline: samantha marshall Terrorism alerts weren't enough to keep Joseph DiResta from making frequent business trips to Hong Kong for the past two years. The fearless road warrior hopped on a plane to the Far East less than a week after...

NYC execs join nation-building; They trade careers for convoys in unit with long history of postwar victories.(War With Iraq)
April 14, 2003... Byline: jacqueline s. gold In his real life, 45-year-old William Jeffrey Smith travels the United States buying land and buildings for Sterling Equities Inc., a big real estate developer and owner of the New York Mets baseball team. ...

New York, New York.(Briefs)(Heaerst Corp. and Walt Disney Co. launch Lifetime magazine; Tapehouse Toons gets contract; hotel rates plummet; other news briefs)
April 14, 2003... Byline: edited by Emily DeNitto The launch of a Lifetime Lifetime magazine debuts on April 22 with a royal push from parents Hearst Corp. and Walt Disney Co. Hearst snagged 30,000 checkout racks for the cable network namesake-10,000...

Big projects losing steam in downturn; $5 billion in work delayed or canceled; housing developers plowing ahead.(News)
April 14, 2003... Byline: philip lentz More than $5 billion worth of major construction projects in New York City have been delayed or canceled in recent months because of the downturn in the economy. Some projects have been affected by troubles in...

Kalikow will discuss MTA's plans, finances; CRAIN'S BREAKFAST FORUM, April 30.(Workplace)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 14, 2003... Peter kalikow, chairman of the metropolitan Transportation Authority, will discuss the agency's upcoming fare hike, its finances and its capital plans at the next Crain's breakfast forum, on Wednesday, April 30. The forum will be held at...

Downtown faces growing worker revolt; One more pressure on firms to leave.(News)
April 14, 2003... Byline: lore croghan and lisa fickenscher Downtown workers are increasingly frustrated with conditions in their disaster-scarred neighborhood, and their growing unhappiness is putting pressure on their employers to leave. The area has...

Designer fights slump with change of scenery; Theater specialist Sachs Morgan learns to diversify, hone office skills.(Small Business)
April 14, 2003... Byline: laura q. hughes Talk about timing. Just seven weeks before previews for Hairspray were to begin on Broadway, the Neil Simon Theatre launched a major renovation, adding 86 seats and expanding lounge space, among other improvements....

Telling Tales.(Small Business)(three arts-related small businesses adjust to harder times)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Lisa Goff The Business of Art With corporations and individuals slashing spending on art and fund-raising at even major museums having, this is a particularly difficult time to run an arts-related small business in New York....

Cafes use their beans to stand out; Locals dish up food, seek cheaper sites to counter fast-expanding Starbucks.(Small Business)(Starbucks competition)
April 14, 2003... Byline: matthew flamm Several years ago, when a Starbucks coffee shop moved in a few blocks from Uncommon Grounds, Moshe Mallul didn't notice any change in his business. His coffee bar, an airy little shop with a marble counter and seating...

Wine distributor converts to church; Scientologists buy into Harlem for third Manhattan spot; Blank Rome stays put.(Real Estate)
April 14, 2003... Byline: lore croghan The church of scientology is heading for Harlem. It is building its third Manhattan church in a handsome brick loft building that it just bought at 220 E. 125th St. for $3.45 million. Its two other churches are...

Government Alert: Assembly pressured on car leasing law; State bar association, coalition challenge vicarious liability; city power plants pushed.(Briefs)
April 14, 2003... Pressure is building on the state Assembly to pass legislation that would exempt car leasing companies from the state's vicarious liability law, which makes leasing firms liable in accident-related lawsuits. Last week, the Alliance of...

At Deadline.(Late News)(cultural institutions face budget cuts; ClearForest wins FBI contract; New York state legislation to help downtown New York businesspeople hurt by insurers reluctant to pay 9/11-related claims; other news briefs)
April 14, 2003... Cultural institutions face bigger cuts the bloomberg administration has told cultural institutions that next year's budget cuts will be even steeper than originally planned. The mayor's 2003-04 budget, to be released Tuesday, will include...

Holding Sheldon Silver liable.(Viewpoint)(car leasing to become impossible in summer 2003; law makes leasing companies responsible for accidents caused by drivers)
April 14, 2003... This summer, New Yorkers will find it extremely difficult, or perhaps impossible, to lease a car. Unless the Assembly agrees to change the unusual and unfair way the doctrine known as vicarious liability is applied in New York, the big car...

Regent's expansion takes center stage; Soft rents prompt cautious growth at executive-suites firm; fund manager's HQ.(Real Estate)
April 21, 2003... Byline: lore croghan Regent business centers has decided to expand, because rents are getting cheap enough to make the effort worthwhile. The Manhattan-based firm signed a five-year sublease for 33,000 square feet at 787 Seventh Ave.,...

Privacy rights.(Special Report: Technology)(eSpeed Inc. v. Chicago Board of Trade)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2003... Besides introducing new issues about costs, electronic forensic cases have raised concerns about privacy. In instances where companies own the computers, employees may have few privacy rights. But communications between attorneys and clients...

Few hospitals take their medicine; Adoption of clinical IT lags; pioneers see reduction in deadly medical errors.(Special Report: Technology)
April 21, 2003... Byline: tim gray Dr. Steve Davidson set a condition before becoming chair of emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1995: The hospital had to purchase a computerized medical records system for its ER. ``I had...

Just a few nagging questions after the fighting in Iraq.(Viewpoint)(Column)
April 21, 2003... Byline: James Brady Oh, What a Lovely War. That was the title of a wonderful satiric musical about World War I staged first in London about 30 years ago by the great Joan Littlewood. No war, of course, is ``lovely,'' and especially not...

Small Business: SBA loan program opens door for hotels; 3 operators in NY area get big bucks even as vacancy rates hit new highs.(Small Business)
April 21, 2003... Byline: jean ende With tourism down and hotel vacancy rates climbing, Amit Gandhi reckoned he might have a hard time finding anyone willing to finance the 82-room hotel he and his partners hoped to build in Long Island City, Queens. ...

Government Alert: City seeks airport input in land swap; Advisory board would give oversight; council speaker hopefuls make plans.(Briefs)(development of World Trade Center site and city airport; term-limits ruling; bills over water filtration plant)
April 21, 2003... Officials discussing the swap of the World Trade Center site and the city airports are looking at creating an airport advisory review board that would give the city some input in running the airports, even if they were sold to the Port...

The Weeks Ahead.(Calendar/Datebook)(Calendar)
April 21, 2003... Byline: anne apuzzo this week's events april 22. WorkTalk holds program on building confidence in your ability to influence others. 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., St. Jean Baptiste Church, Community Center, 180 E. 76th St. Fee: $10. (212)...

At Deadline.(Late News)(postwar reconstruction in New York; proposed law on costs of emotional suffering lawsuits to New York City; Fleet Bank downsizing; other news briefs)
April 21, 2003... Schumer aids firm on Iraqi contract in an effort to ensure that New York companies get their fare share of the reconstruction work coming out of postwar Iraq, Sen. Charles Schumer is lobbying on behalf of Globecomm Systems Inc. of...

Long-awaited return to Iraq; New Yorkers willing to sacrifice security to be part of their homeland's future.(War With Iraq)
April 21, 2003... Byline: samantha marshall Wall Street banker Hussain Qaragholi's entire adult life has been geared toward this moment in history. The Iraqi-born New Yorker plans to take a leave of absence from his job to help rebuild his country's...

New York, New York.(Briefs)(New York Public Library to downsize; Event Planners Plus! to launch golf magazine; bars exempt from city's smoking ban benefit from the ban elsewhere; other news briefs)
April 21, 2003... Byline: edited by Emily DeNitto Cutting down branches Employees at the city's public library branches are feeling like second-class citizens. Last month, The New York Public Library President Paul LeClerc notified his staff that a...

Cuts could close show for museum workers; City budget reductions threaten guards; no help from private donors.(News)(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
April 21, 2003... Byline: miriam kreinin souccar During the city's fiscal crises in the mid-1970s, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art were greeted with signs noting which galleries were closed for the day because of city budget cuts. Last week, hit...