Archive for November, 2010
Food Manufacturing Bucking the Decline
Posted on 04. Nov, 2010 by Thomas Chan.
Gillies Coffee Company’s 50 year story from Thomas Chan on Vimeo. Fifty years ago, Donald Schoenholt’s father did not want him getting into the family business. As Schoenholt recalls it, his father only saw market trends leading to a bleak future for New York’s oldest coffee roaster. The rest of the industry was busy consolidating […]
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Critics Say Historic Districting Hampers Growth and Development
Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by Anne Byrnes.
When Robert Moses and his fellow architectural robber barons demolished the stately structure that was Penn Station in the 1960s, nary a New Yorker could argue against historic preservation. Within a few short years, the historic preservation movement was at full steam and in 1965 the first historic district, the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, was […]
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Plan for Medical eRecord Network Could Save Lives
Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by Amy Berryhill.
Health care providers will finally begin to communicate with one another like modern business people if ambitious plans to create a network for electronic medical records in New York state is approved. Last week the New York Department of Health and the public-private partnership New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) released their joint plan for the […]
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As Longtime Bakeries Shutter, New Bread Rises in NYC
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Lisa Riordan Seville.
First it was Stella D’Oro’s cookies, then Old London’s Melba toast—and now, Wonder Bread. Over the past 12 months, three longtime New York City baking manufacturers have announced they are leaving town, and putting more than 600 union employees out of work. Despite exodus of longtime companies, baking remains one bright spot in the rather […]
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The Greening of ConEd
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Eleanor Miller.
Over the past few years, New York’s main utility has greatly expanded its efforts to provide green energy and promote energy conservation in New York: Con Ed’s Power of Green initiative, for example, inspects businesses for ways it could save energy and sometimes retrofits them for free; the company was also just named one of the […]
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Back to square one: nothing new at the Kingsbridge Armory
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Vishal Persaud.
Almost a year later, after the showdown and defeat over the development of a looming structure in the northwest Bronx, neither the borough or the city have taken major steps to rectify any concrete plans for the unused bastion. The bitter battle over the Kingsbridge Armory left everyone involved in the dispute, community activists, politicians, […]
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A new possibility in a factory closing
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Katie Honan.
Wonder Bread opened a factory in Jamaica, Queens over 125 years ago, and two weeks ago the company announced it would be closing the outpost in January, saying that the necessary improvements to the factory would be too expensive to make. “We deeply regret the impact this will have on our employees and their families,” […]
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Need bedbug treatment? Cough up for efficiency
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Alana Casanova.
Bedbugs aren’t only getting more common in New York City – they’re more expensive, too. As the pest epidemic grows, those affected are willing to pay more and more money to get rid of the seed-sized insects. Calls to exterminators are panicked and often ill-informed, and many clients opt for more expensive and nearly instantaneous […]
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Fines Plague Restaurants as They Try to Make the Grade
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Emily Lavin.
Betty Cooney does not hide her disdain for the health inspectors who evaluate the restaurants in her neighborhood. She can rattle off a list of violations they’ve cited that she finds unfair, like the restaurant owner fined because he took off his hat as he walked through the kitchen to the bathroom, or the one […]
