By Matthew Schuerman 7/25/05 12:00am

Ratner Is Gaining as the Nets Owner Nuzzles Advocates

On a January day last year, about 30 activists walked into a windowless boardroom, high over downtown Brooklyn, belonging to Forest City Ratner Companies.

“Is Bertha going to start something?” one of the Forest City executives asked the group. The activists—members and employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now—were more used to Read More

By NYO Staff 3/12/01 12:00am

The Dot-Com Debacle

Truth tends to win out in the end, and the ambitious

entrepreneurs of New York’s Silicon Alley, who just yesterday were poised to

become Masters of the Universe, are in the very public process of painfully

learning that it takes more than an idea and a modem to create a business-or

even to make a Read More