...The Wonders of MANHATTAN By Luke Lindgren Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, which are Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staton Island, and the Bronx. Manhattan is the largest and most-visited borough, largely because it has very famous attractions like Times Square, Broadway, The Empire State Building, and Central Park, just to name a few. The Population of Manhattan, based off the 2012 Census, is 1,619,090. I am now going to tell you about a few things you can do at some of the attractions. Go to Times Square! Times Square is one of the largest attractions of the world, has some of the tallest buildings in America, and many amazing celebrations and stores. Firstly, it has the Mega Toys R Us store with an indoor ferris wheel, 4 floors of endless fun, and huge lego statues like a 7-foot tall Empire State Building and a 6-foot tall Lego model of Lady Liberty. Times Sqaure also has the M&M’s store, with over a hundred different colors and flavors for you to mix, and a ton more. It has Godiva, Hershey’s, and a Disney store too! Times Square has the biggest New Year’s Eve ball drops in the country with famous performers and thousands of people in the crowd. It also holds the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and has an awesome 4th of July with the Statue of Liberty. Another Amazing place you should visit in Manhattan is Wall Street. It is a historic, large street with many amazing things you can do and places you can see. Wall Street is the “financial district”...
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...competitors in the national business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and rankings of world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000). The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool ".[3] Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Perlis. Contents [hide] 1 Company history 1.1 Sale of headquarters and relocation to Jersey City 1.2 Sale to Integrated Whale Media 2 Other publications 3 Forbes.com 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Company history[edit] Forbes' former headquarters on 5th Avenue in Manhattan (now owned by New York University) Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City (now owned by New York University) B. C. Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street,[4] founded Forbes magazine in 1917.[5][6] Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise. The original name of the magazine was Forbes: Devoted to Doers and Doings.[4] Drey became vice-president of the B.C. Forbes Publishing Company,[7] while B.C. Forbes became editor-in-chief, a post he held until his death in 1954. B.C. Forbes was assisted in his later years by his two eldest sons, Bruce Charles Forbes (1916–1964) and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1917–1990). Bruce...
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...Reginald Smith 11/17/2012 Course: Advertising Management Instructor- Elisabeth Powers Week 3 Advertising Plan First Draft Situational Analysis Company (Product/Service) Description. The firm JP Morgan will launch a anew banking and financial initiative called Latin-Finance in Manhattan New York solely for the purpose of test marketing. The consumer group will be Latinos and Hispanics of all ages who live in NYC but want personal and business loans for economic opportunities mainly in the Manhattan borough. The firm has 50% of Manhattan banking market deposits or 334 billion of 650 billion in. While Latinos & Hispanics make around 28% of NYC population and around 25% of Manhattan brought, the account for less than 10% total banking deposits in Manhattan, have the lowest home ownership rate below 10% and virtually no access to business and personal loans $5000 or more and make only 30% of the income as Whites, have lowest marriage rate, lowest education attainment rate, and is seeing their share of population shrink as high cost of living push them out of the city. The company JP Morgan Latin Finance will be established as a wholly owned subsidiary operation and have its own office in located in Mid-town Manhattan. The building will be huge and newly construction at 5-6 million square feet and will cost 6-10 billion dollars for construction, interior design, technology, getting the staffing set up, and dealing with the city legal and political oversight and requirements...
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...and importance of European "cheap chic" or "fast fashion" in New York. In 2000, H & M - the Ikea of fashion - opened a massive, 35,000 square foot flagship store on Fifth Avenue at 51st Street, announcing its presence in Manhattan in a big way. Only recently did fellow European competitors follow the Swedish retailer to Fifth Avenue. In the fall, Mexx, the Dutch company bought by Liz Clairborne two years ago, made its U.S. debut by opening in a glassy flagship store on 52nd Street. Zara, the Spanish fashion store, is scheduled to open at 54th Street. H & M has become the hot destination for the Gen X, Y and Z set by providing up-to-the-minute trends at K-Mart prices. It's been facing off against its competitors in the Flatiron District to Union Square to Soho to Herald Square and the area around Bloomingdale's. "It's promotional disposable fashion," said Stephen J. Stephanou, executive vice president at Madison HGCD. "You might see a customer standing in line with 10 of the latest trendy tube tops for $150, and if it doesn't dissolve on the disco floor, that's great." "It's a niche that hadn't existed before," he said. "It's going to be a phenomenon that will continue to expand in the city." H & M, which has six stores in Manhattan, has been the most aggressive in its expansion efforts, while Zara, which is higher-quality merchandise, has take a more cautious approach even though it has been here since 1987, and now has five stores. Mexx, the Liz...
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...Yang, Assistant Marketing Director Date: April 24, 2012 Subject: amy’s bread INTRODUCTION Here is the analytical report that you requested on April 24, 2012 to conduct research on www.amysbread.com. The analytical report consists of four sections and information on whether Metropolitan Bakery should open a retail location in the New York metro area. FINDINGS There are five categories on www.amysbread.com, which are Locations, Menu, Shopping, News, and Our Staff. The locations category of www.amysbread.com lists the three different retail stores that Amy’s Bread has in New York. All three of the locations are in Manhattan. The retail stores are located in the following areas: Chelsea Market in lower Manhattan, Hell’s Kitchen in midtown Manhattan, and the Village in lower Manhattan. The menu category of www.amysbread.com includes all of the different products that are offered in Amy’s Bread’s retail locations. The following products are offered in the retail locations: Organic Breads Miche Rustic Italian Country White Toy’s Organic Wheat Baguette Peasant White Whole Wheat Five Grain Walnut Oat Peacan with Golden Raisins Black Olive Fougasse and Block Olive Twist Black Olive Bread and Black Olive Ficelle Rosemary Round Twist Sourdough Country Tangy Seeded Twist Semolina Black Sesame Seeds Golden Raisin and Fennel ...
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...banker living in Manhattan but the path to that success was not easy. His character traits and dedication to hard work tell the story. Scott was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Like most of the kids he grew up with, they attended the local catholic school. When it was time to move onto high school, he was determined to attend the high school of his choice. He attended Saturday classes to help him succeed on his high school placement test. He achieved his goal by getting accepted to Xaviarn and Xavier, both were excellent, however, he chose Xavier. For Scott the travel was 2 buses and 1 train to get to school each day. Just as he studied in grammar school to attend the high school of his choice, so he studied in high school to attend the college of his choice. Scott was accepted to St. Johns and Loyola in Maryland and chose to go to Loyola. He attended school for one semester when he realized that living in the college dorms was not for him. He decided to return to New York and attend St. Johns. Scott began attending St. Johns full time when my mother started her own business. She needed help and Scott was intrigued. He had not held a true full time position with a weekly paycheck so he decided he would go to school part-time and work full time in this family business. The company was small but grew very quickly and Scott thrived as the lead sales representative. Scott also wore the customer service hat and led the marketing group for the company. As technology...
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...In the year 10,000 BCE two Native American tribes settled in what is now called Manhattan. Following that, in 1524, French explorers discovered New York State and allowed the Dutch colonies to retrieve the area in 1609. In 1664 England purchased the island of Manhattan and transformed it into a major trading port for the 13 original colonies. New York City then became an area of great population and diversity. In the early 18th century, New York City was still owned by the British, but immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France, and Germany all took residence there as well as African slaves who were typically all indentured servants at the time. By 1740 approximately 500 out of 2,500 residents of New York were slaves. The people whom were not slaves feared that African Americans were plotting to burn down the city. Subsequently, in 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which was considered to be the first organized act of resistant towards British authority. Although George Washington’s Continental Army was based in Brooklyn and Harlem Heights, New York City, Manhattan was given to the British and used as a British military base until 1783 (“New York City”). During the time that the British controlled New York City, the area was greatly damaged twice by fires. These fires were believed to have started by the British military role and the British began to keep American prisoners of war in prisons across from the East River in Brooklyn. In these prisons, more Americans lost...
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...1. What is Dennis Kozlowski’s assessment of the crime (including his situation with the Directors)? With MARK SWARTZ, he is committed of looting $150,000,000 low interest and interest-free loans from the company for personal use. This is yet another case of corporate executives abusing their positions of trust and putting themselves and their checkbooks above the interests of the company shareholders 2. Where was Dennis Kozlowski born? What college did he attend? How did he pay for his college expenses? He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Seton Hall University. He paid for his college expenses by waiting tables and playing guitar in a band. 3. What was his first job at Tyco? Nine years later he was ??? Then in 1989 he was??? And in 1992 he was appointed???? He worked as an internal auditor at Tyco. Nine years later he was running a division called renel Fire protection, which made fire sprinklers. In 1989 he was chief operating officer of Tyco. In 1992 he was appointed to CEO. 4. When Dennis was appointed CEO how did he plan to expand the Tyco empire? He was appointed CEO in 1992 and he expanded the Tyco empire through a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions. 5. What was the nickname for Dennis on Wall Street? Deal-a-month Dennis 6. Why did Wall Street like Tyco? Where was Tyco headquarters located? ...
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...for the creation of a large means leaving the artifice of the urban park (2). city behind and entering into an innocent green world, a vestige of A Cleansing Landscape the original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green space would not only cleanse the landscape is very much a product the air of dangerous smoke and of the mid nineteenth-century city. miasmas, it would convince the As such, Manhattan’s “front lawn” overworked sons and daughters of can be read as a primary source, a Puritans to leave their homes and unique window on Victorian views offices, get out in the sunshine and of nature as well as the politics of fresh air, and indulge in healthclass, ethnicity, gender, race, and giving leisure. Even more, the park neighborhood. The second probwould draw workers and immilem is that the surrounding city of grants away from “dissipating” Manhattan is not nearly as artificial and “uncivilized” leisure practices,...
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...BROADWAY Broadway refers to a location found in the theater district located in Manhattan in New York City. The first Broadway theatre opened around 1903 at the New York City and was called the Lyceum theatre. However, at that time other theatres had been established along Nassau Street.For a performance to be considered Broadway it must be held in any of the 40 professional theaters that have 500 or more seats found in this area located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Along with London's West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. A performance to be held on Broadway is a mark of success that is considered to be the highest level attainable for commercial theater. Attending a production of Broadway theater is a popular tourist activity in New York. Over a billion dollars in Broadway theater tickets were sold in 2009 and 2010. Attending a Broadway show is a common tourist activity in New York. For a performance to be considered Broadway it must be held in any of the 40 professional theaters that have 500 or more seats found in this area. A performance to be held on Broadway is a mark of success that is considered to be the highest level attainable for commercial theater. Attending a production of Broadway theater is a popular tourist activity in New York. Over a billion dollars in Broadway theater tickets were...
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...Fresh Direct: A Rotten Deal By Tom Angotti Fresh Direct delivers food to households all over the city. But New York City’s deal to give the company land in the South Bronx and nearly $130 million in subsidies is rotten. The city’s Economic Development Corporation has brokered a deal with Fresh Direct, a company that delivers prepared food to households all over the city. The deal would allow them to move from Long Island City in Queens, where developers are anxious to get their hands on industrial land, to the Harlem River Railyards in the South Bronx, where city and state agencies are used to unloading heavy polluters. Fresh Direct would be rewarded with nearly $130 million in city and state subsidies. The city promotes the deal as a “win-win” for New York City. It is supposed to be a job generator, producing as many as 300 new jobs, possibly 1,000 by 2020. It is supposed to ease congestion and improve the environment. Fresh Direct has promised 10 electric trucks that would eliminate diesel emissions. And more busy people will have access to healthy food. On closer inspection, however, it’s a bad deal for taxpayers, South Bronx residents, food industry workers, the environment, and consumers. At a time when more people are clamoring for a healthier and more sustainable food system, Fresh Direct would deliver a barrel of bad apples. Residents in some of the city’s most fashionable neighborhoods are already complaining about Fresh Direct’s delivery trucks. They run on diesel fuel...
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...Mini Paper Company Chosen: Fresh Direct Training and Development HRM 592 Professor: Dawn Bryant Daisy Pagan FreshDirect is an online grocery that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. FreshDirect also offers next-day delivery to most of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Westchester County, Fairfield County, Hoboken, New Jersey and Jersey City, New Jersey. FRESH DIRECT Strengths •Fresh Direct have built their reputation as a grocery store that you don’t have to go to, they come to you in New York. •Able to help busy people lives become a little easier with their home delivery service. Weaknesses •Most people like to be able to see and smell some of their food before they buy. •Fresh Direct is located only in New York. •High employee turnover (Focus on my paper) Employee turnover is affecting every organization in every industry and have been experiencing high rates of turnover. There are a number of factors that contribute to employee turnover. One of the reasons why employee turnover is so high is because of our economy. Exit interviews reveal that the most common reason given for leaving is because of the pay they are earning. The need of getting higher paid jobs is important to many. In some cases the difference might be .50 cents or 1.00 dollar but it will be enough for an employee to leave one job for another. When the economy is better the availability...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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...The American dream is turning into a nightmare, with disheartening levels of inequality, unemployment and homelessness. In this eyewitness report, CommonWealth Magazine visits the US, in what may be its final days at the top. Capitalism is facing unprecedented challenges. Nowhere is this truer than in the United States, where unemployment has reached huge proportions, and across the country some 3 million people — the equivalent of 90 percent of Taipei City residents — are without a home. Support for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is growing rapidly, as protesters across the United States and around the world make a ruckus about the uneven distribution of wealth and the way the rich use their money to make more money. Target No. 1 in the protests is the epitome of capitalism: the banking industry, and the governments that bailed out the banks with taxpayers' money during the last financial crisis. The protesters began to occupy Zuccotti Park at the end of Wall Street in mid-September. When we visited in October the number of blue tents pitched in the park was still growing. To me the scene looked like a disaster zone. Sitting in front of a glitzy investment bank, a shabbily dressed homeless man held out his hand for a cigarette, while warning with a threatening look in his eyes that he does not want to be photographed. But just around the corner white-collar workers sporting fashionable neckties pay the equivalent of NT$ 1,500 for a sandwich lunch at Trinity Place bar and...
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...Mini Paper Company Chosen: Fresh Direct Training and Development HRM 592 Professor: Dawn Bryant Daisy Pagan FreshDirect is an online grocery that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. FreshDirect also offers next-day delivery to most of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Westchester County, Fairfield County, Hoboken, New Jersey and Jersey City, New Jersey. FRESH DIRECT Strengths •Fresh Direct have built their reputation as a grocery store that you don’t have to go to, they come to you in New York. •Able to help busy people lives become a little easier with their home delivery service. Weaknesses •Most people like to be able to see and smell some of their food before they buy. •Fresh Direct is located only in New York. •High employee turnover (Focus on my paper) Employee turnover is affecting every organization in every industry and have been experiencing high rates of turnover. There are a number of factors that contribute to employee turnover. One of the reasons why employee turnover is so high is because of our economy. Exit interviews reveal that the most common reason given for leaving is because of the pay they are earning. The need of getting higher paid jobs is important to many. In some cases the difference might be .50 cents or 1.00 dollar but it will be enough for an employee to leave one job for another. When the economy is better the availability...
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