Hints and tips:
...The $50bn fund manager is a longtime lender to Revlon, the cosmetics company, and to Serta Simmons Bedding, the mattress group....
...Even in Brooklyn it’s the same — don’t care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck....
...FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is adjusting to life behind bars in a Brooklyn jail as he awaits sentencing, sharing crypto tips with guards and trading bagged fish as currency, The Wall Street Journal reports...
...Comparing 2019 with 2022, business registrations were roughly level in Manhattan, but elevated in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn....
...A New York Times article profiled a group of Brooklyn school kids calling themselves the Luddite Club, eschewing smartphones. “When I got my flip phone,” said one, “I started using my brain....
...Further reading— 26 questionable ‘00s trends that have unfortunately returned— Meet the bedding boss who really, really doesn’t want to live near HQ...
...Serta Simmons Bedding, one of the US’s largest mattress makers, filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. At Tempur, sales were flat last year but net income fell by 27 per cent....
...Tucked in Brooklyn’s edgy East Williamsburg neighbourhood there is now a Rivian service centre. Across town, the electric-truck maker has opened a high-end showroom in New York’s Meatpacking District....
...STEPHEN GANDEL: He's from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He's different. He looks different than what you would expect for a CEO and he saw the world differently. The merger they're proposing is illegal....
...Anecdotally, I can report that my Brooklyn florist was doing standing-room-only business on Mother’s Day. Send your own observations to: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...on Singapore and Hong Kong Vice, TPG and a private equity reckoning More than a decade ago, by Shane Smith’s telling, the Vice Media founder and Rupert Murdoch got drunk on tequila in a Williamsburg, Brooklyn...
...Irving, a 2016 National Basketball Association champion with the Cleveland Cavaliers, has played in Brooklyn since 2019....
...In the first episode, a Korean family-run hat shop becomes the unofficial outfitter for a local gospel church; in the next, a Belizean woman finds spiritual solace among the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn....
...David Meyer, dean of Tulane Law School and host of Tulane’s prominent M&A, corporate and securities law conference Corporate Law Institute, has been appointed the new dean of Brooklyn Law School....
...Founded by a New York high-school student, Logan Lane, these Brooklyn-based techno refuseniks meet at the same time weekly and head to Prospect Park to read, paint, talk politics and hang out IRL....
...In 2012, Rupert Murdoch drank tequila with the bearded, tattooed Smith at Vice’s Brooklyn office. Months later, his 21st Century Fox group invested $70mn in Vice....
...I first saw Drummond perform a year ago, at a small low-lit bar in Flatbush, Brooklyn, called The Zombie House....
...The focus of the business shifted to textile rental — table linen, towels and bedding, as well as workwear for various industries. It has been a good recovery story....
...And on my wishlist is bedding from the Magniberg collaboration I’ve been working on....
...If you work outside, for instance, as a tennis coach or groundsman, then you almost certainly need to wear one to shield your face from the sun — as the first baseball caps did on the heads of the Brooklyn...
...Additionally, the witness roster is packed with so many publishing executives and literary agents that the trial could more conveniently be held in Brooklyn....
...In basketball, former Roc Nation agent Rich Kleiman left with star client Kevin Durant, the current Brooklyn Nets player, and set up their own talent, entertainment and investment vehicle called Thirty-Five...
...Parents in my Brooklyn neighbourhood record them while pushing prams, pressing rice crackers into toddler palms. A voice note requires just one hand and no eyes for the busy and overburdened....
...Attorney Mark Shirian brought the case over Glock’s marketing and distribution on behalf of Ilene Steur, who was injured in the Brooklyn attack....
...We met in her modest, three-room Brooklyn apartment. Outside the streets were white with fresh snow. Jessica’s origins, and the inspiration for her stage name Stoya, are Serbian....
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