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Byline: RYAN DEFFENBAUGH With New York set to be the first U.S. city to mandate vaccination in some settings this month, restaurants, bars and gyms are weighing which tech options [...]

Byline: JEREMY SMERD TWO FAMILY BUSINESSES: One will make it to the next generation; the other will not. The difference? One grows in New Jersey,while the other ran out of [...]

Byline: WILL BREDDERMAN Bloody Monday at the Daily News last month shocked the city, but we have seen this story before. On July 23 the 99-year-old newspaper axed half its [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ In August, Paper Enterprises Inc., a scrappy Bronx company that supplies paper cups, soap dispensers, napkins and the like, acquired Worldwide Sales & Distributing, a New Jersey-based [...]

Byline: AMANDA FUNG #40 What it does: Distributes paper products, packaging, food-service items, cleaning supplies and janitorial equipment HOW IT GREW: Since Robert Tillis bought 80-year-old Imperial Bag & Paper [...]

Byline: steve garmhausen Sometimes small can be better. That has certainly been the experience of Metropolitan Paper Recycling. Although the East New York, Brooklyn-based company is just a fraction of [...]

Byline: Aaron Elstein COMPANY SPOTLIGHT Vice Media #25 RXR Realty #30 TEN YEARS AGO revenue at Vice Media was only $28 million, according to Forbes. Today the 23-year-old firm, which [...]

The government's request for bids was notable for both its specificity and its lack of detail. 'The wall design shall * 'be constructed with reinforced concrete.' * 'be physically imposing [...]

Racked by a glut of U.S. paper recycling capacity and competition from China, Newark Group has cut costs and consolidated in recent years. The paper products company has shut five [...]

The Bloomberg administration is near to an agreement to help Visy Paper build a boxboard plant next to its existing recycling facility on Staten Island. Key to the deal is [...]

A long-delayed $600 million paper recycling mill in the South Bronx, which would be the biggest manufacturing plant ever built in New York City, is finding new momentum. Morse Diesel [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM The news never stays good for long in the world of digital media. Especially for The New York Times. In October, the paper reached 1 million digital [...]

As a part-time student at new york university's stern school of business, Maria Defino came up with a plan for an online trading hub to connect hundreds of paper manufacturers. [...]

Byline: Peter D'Amato Commuters spilled onto the platform of Grand Central Terminal's Track 17 at 10 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, passing the sole recycling bin without giving it a [...]

38% Yes. It will reduce waste and save the city money. Shoppers can easily bring their own bags. 62% No. It will be inconvenient for most shoppers. Implement better recycling [...]

Mark your hand-stitched calendar: Kate's Paperie and the Angelica Berrie Foundation will sponsor 'Slash: Paper Under the Knife,'' an exhibition of paper artworks at the Museum of Arts and Design, [...]

Byline: ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI Capitalizing on the do-it-yourself and scrapbooking crazes, Paper Source has inked its second Manhattan lease in a month. After opening nearly two years ago in Brooklyn, the [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM In Gary Shteyngart's futuristic novel Super Sad True Love Story, the hapless hero attracts looks of disgust when he opens a book--the paper-and-ink kind--on a transatlantic flight. [...]

Byline: ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI It has been a rough ride for Kate's Paperie, a paper-goods chain with a cult-like following. After three years of plummeting sales and skyrocketing fixed costs, the [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm For the past seven years, the New York Post has been the fastest-growing newspaper in America. The brash tabloid defied the nationwide downward circulation trend and never [...]

Byline: ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI Fans of e-commerce apparel company Bonobos, a digital pioneer when it debuted six years ago, might be surprised to open their snail-mailboxes this holiday season and find [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM For a business that started with a failed classical singer looking to unload his boyhood comic-book collection, comiXology has come a long way. Just last week, the [...]

7 GOLDS, 5 SILVERS, 1 BRONZE Crain's New York Business won 13 editorial awards from the Alliance of Area Business Publications last month, including top honors for Best Newspaper in [...]

Byline: SHANE DIXON KAVANAUGH Forget about manhole covers. A new crime wave is sweeping over city streets, and it's costing the commercial carting industry millions of dollars: Thieves are making [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM On Thursday, when The New York Times Co. announces fourth-quarter earnings, the good news will likely be that things aren't worse. The plunge in print advertising revenue [...]

Paper or plastic? These days, the answer is neither. As a result of the economic downturn worldwide, and particularly in the United States, prices for such recycled commodities have collapsed [...]

Don't pull one over on Paula Riley Paula Riley used up a lot of ink and paper on the way to U.S. Patent No. 5547249, often jotting down ideas for [...]

Byline: ELIZA RONALDS-HANNON Brooklyn's Canarsie section is only about 10 miles from midtown but seems a world apart in many ways. The neighborhood's quiet, tree-lined streets of modern, two-family homes [...]

Byline: AMANDA FUNG Free daily newspaper amNewYork will shift its headquarters in the garment district one block north and one block east. The firm has signed a five-year lease for [...]

Jeff Adler joins Crain's New York Business as advertising director today. Mr. Adler, 39, will oversee all advertising sales efforts for the weekly print paper and its Web site, www.newyorkbusiness.com. [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM The newspaper business is struggling across the country. You wouldn't know it in New York. The Wall Street Journal launches its long awaited New York edition today, [...]

Byline: MATTHEW FLAMM In the 18 months since Cablevision Systems Corp. bought Newsday for $650 million, the cable giant has suffered the derision of investors who wondered why it needed [...]

The new york sun will not set quietly. Executives from the money-losing broadsheet continued to search for new investors last week after announcing in a front-page letter on Thursday that [...]

British Telecommunications signed a 15-year lease for about 63,000 square feet at The New York Times Building, located at 620 Eighth Ave., sources say. The asking rent was $95 a [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm For news corp., it was the same old story. In its most recent quarter, nearly every one of the international media giant's nine business segments produced double-digit [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm in recent weeks, as all eyes were focused on Rupert Murdoch's bid for The Wall Street Journal, a smaller drama was taking place at a newspaper the [...]

After a long struggle for state approval, Forest City Ratner Cos. is proceeding with its giant Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. But that won't stop Gersh Kuntzman, editor of The [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm There is one corner of the newspaper industry where circulation is rising, ad revenue is growing, and the Internet bears no relation to the grim reaper: weekly [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm The bad news for the New York Times Co. never seems to stop. Circulation for its flagship newspaper fell 3.5% in the most recent reporting period, while [...]

An insurance firm is consolidating its two downtown offices, ensuring that more than 600 jobs remain in lower Manhattan. Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has signed a 20-year lease to merge [...]

Her job is to assist the city's uninsured in getting government-funded health coverage, and she uses her knowledge of the bureaucracy and a Rolodex full of contacts to get it [...]

Around the country, journalists are under siege from zealous prosecutors eager to know the identities of confidential sources. Meanwhile, the public holds reporters in low regard, and, battered by the [...]

hollywood may be nervous about its future, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the stats for the most popular movies then and now. Family flicks dominated the lists [...]

the new york post has been the wild card in the fight to get New Yorkers' attention. While the Daily News' readership fell precipitously between 1985 and 1995, and is [...]

change has been the constant at the major cultural institutions in the city over the past 20 years. Philippe de Montebello of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the only [...]

strong ratings go a long way toward ensuring job security in the local TV news business. Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons of local leader WNBC-4 are the only two anchors [...]

while commercial real estate both downtown and midtown has had its share of ups and downs over the past 20 years, midtown has come out far ahead. Rents in lower [...]

if it seems like everyone around town is speaking a language other than English, there's a good reason. Between 1980 and 2000, there were nearly 400,000 more New Yorkers who [...]

while many large cities lost population in the latter part of the 20th century, New York continued to grow, as immigrants flocked to the various boroughs. Staten Island had the [...]

Byline: Matthew Flamm As the newspaper war between AM New York and Metro New York comes up on its first anniversary, both of the free local dailies are gaining ground. [...]