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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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NYIRN Manufactures a New Home
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by Lisa Riordan Seville.
After years in Manhattan, the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN) is taking a page from many of its manufacturing clients. It’s moving to Brooklyn.
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The Superfund Done, Businesses Wait to See What it Means for Them
Posted on 01. Oct, 2010 by Lisa Riordan Seville.
The city, state and community groups applauded last week’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it had designated New York City’s polluted Newtown Creek a Superfund site. More quietly, some along the creek began to wring their hands, wondering what the federal cleanup of the busy industrial waterway will mean to their businesses and […]
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Will the City Make Room for Made in New York?
Posted on 17. Sep, 2010 by Lisa Riordan Seville.
Talks may be starting up again on the future zoning of the garment center–in the jostling over space and vision, does manufacturing still have a place in midtown?
