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Byline: Hilary Potkewitz On Nov. 7 about 650 executives will gather at Cipriani 42nd Street for the Women's Forum of New York's Breakfast of Corporate Champions. The biennial event recognizes [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ LAZZERI, 39 Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom After losing his father as a boy, Alejandro Gonzalez Lazzeri spent a lot of time with [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Many people think of cigars as an indulgence just for special occasions, such as the birth of a baby or a Kentucky Derby win. Cigar sommelier Michael [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ In January barber Rich Mendoza made his first business trip to Dubai--to cut the hair of a 24-year-old soccer pro and Saudi prince. It was the barber's [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZDonald Smith knows how to read a room. It's a skill he honed in his first career, shoplifting and robbery, but it comes in handy now that he's [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Zawadi Morris worked in media relations for more than a decade before writing her first news article--and it was published in The New York Times. 'It was [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Sabra Lewis is living many a wine-lover's dream: She retired from her dance career at age 30 and relaunched herself as a certified sommelier. Now she gets [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz A few months into his dream job assisting Broadway producer Richard Frankel on the 2002 musical Hairspray, Anthony Taccetta realized he'd been dreaming about the wrong job. [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Markus Rhoten started learning piano as a toddler in Germany, 'but I would always go to the low notes. I had an affinity for bass,' he said. [...]

SUMNER REDSTONE Net Worth: $8.3 billion ↓ 6.7% Last Year: $89 billion Age: 81 Residence: Beverly Hills Source of Wealth: Media, entertainment Background: Chairman and chief executive of third-largest U.S. [...]

FOR every high-profile, high-octane example of a Michael Eisner or a Hank Greenberg being pushed aside as chief executive, there are tales like the one at K2 Inc. The board [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ After 40 years of working in Williamsburg, Keith Senko thought he'd heard and seen it all. He grew up in the family business, Senko Funeral Home, founded [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ GURINDER 'GARY' SANGHA, 37 Founder and chief executive, Lit IQ Founder, Intelligize Often it's the little mistakes that lead to the biggest lawsuits. 'A ton of litigation [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Sometime last fall, Josh Bowen, owner and pit master of John Brown's Smokehouse in Long Island City, got a request from a new neighbor. 'He asked if [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz After months of snow and freezing temperatures, and pretending to enjoy the treadmill, it's time to put one foot in front of the other, outside. There may [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ BORIS SEGALIS, 39 Partner Norton Rose Fulbright IN HIS EARLY 20S, Boris Segalis was in Florida building engines for the space shuttle and testing booster rockets, and [...]

THE past year dealt WPT Enterprises Inc. a tough hand, but in the parlance of its game, the pioneering TV poker company is holding a couple of strong pocket cards. [...]

In terms of online wagering, poker and fantasy football have exploded. As for horse racing ... let's just say the fuse is lit. No one is trying harder to set [...]

Billionaire Stewart Resnick is the biggest grower and processor of pistachios in the United States and controls more than 25 percent of the nation's $700 million industry. He probably would [...]

A senior partner dreads the L.A. visit because of the traffic. A new client coming to town doesn't eat sushi. An old client has been here so often he wants [...]

When the pop vocalist Toni Childs released her Emmy-winning song "Because You're Beautiful" as a single this month, she didn't need a record label affiliation or an album to back [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ NOAH HELLER, 38 CEO, KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN Good timing.' That's Noah Heller's explanation of his ascent to chief executive of law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman last year, [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ DAVID BROWN, 38 Partner PAUL WEISS RIFKIND WHARTON & GARRISON February's bombshell report on bullying and rampant verbal abuse within the Miami Dolphins' locker room stunned the [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ MANISHA SHETH,39 Partner, QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN When Manisha Sheth arrived at law firm Quinn Emanuel at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, she [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ IEUAN JOLLY, 36 Partner, LOEB & LOEB Ieuan Jolly takes data privacy as seriously as anyone. He advises Facebook, Visa, Clear Channel and others on their privacy [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Three years after a pair of suspicious fires devastated a portion of a busy retail strip in the Norwood section of the Bronx, bulldozers have finally lumbered [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Let's be frank. Turning a place called--of all things--Fresh Kills, a site once infamous as the world's largest garbage dump, into a park three times the size [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Co-op City, the sprawling cooperative apartment complex in the east Bronx with 35 high-rises, assorted townhouses and more than 60,000 residents, has always been tough to get [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ With the Long Island Rail Road's Sutphin Boulevard underpass project nearing completion, two arts organizations have signed up to move into what will be called The Shops [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Six years after it opened its doors, a shared workspace and arts collective for craftspeople in Bushwick, Brooklyn, has emerged as a growing force in the creative [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ For decades, City Island, a small maritime community attached to the rest of the Bronx by a short two-lane bridge, has been satisfied to welcome visitors from [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Trial by fire forges career Aric Wu, 38 Partner, GIBSON DUNN & CRUTCHER A hotshot plaintiff's lawyer was seeking $6 million in damages in a medical-malpractice suit [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Lawyer courts life on the edge Erica Berthou, 36 Partner DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON For about 20 minutes last November, Erica Berthou was lost in the Borneo jungle [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ Rafael Salamanca, district manager of Bronx Community Board 2 in Hunts Point, thinks that the hard-pressed area's long run of bad luck may be about to change. [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ In February, city officials and business leaders reacted with glee to FreshDirect's decision to relocate to the Bronx instead of New Jersey. But back in the online [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz For most New Yorkers, Labor Day means the end of summer at the beach. But not for surfer Kevin Kash. 'September to mid-October--hurricane season--is the best time [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ When people think of the most heavily used subway stations, hubs like Times Square, Penn Station and Union Square quickly come to mind. Flushing-Main Street definitely does [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ GREENPOINT, Brooklyn, and Maspeth, Queens, are less than three miles apart, but they're on far-opposite sides of a property dispute. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been thinking [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Kenneth Wolff, 39 Partner, SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & FLOM KEN WOLFF REMEMBERS that while he was living the party life of a student at Ohio Wesleyan [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ UNLIKE SOCIAL MEDIA companies that get people to interact online, 8-year-old Meetup Inc. helps people connect face-to-face. Crain's caught Meetup's co-founder and chief financial officer, Brendan McGovern, [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ LAST SUMMER, residents of Hunts Point in the Bronx celebrated a hard-fought victory: NYOFCo, the company running a hugely odoriferous sewage-to-fertilizer operation on Oak Point Avenue, lost [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ ICE SCULPTING WAS Takeo Okamoto's secret at first. He abandoned an engineering career and moved his young family from a Japanese island to Anchorage, where he opened [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz THE FINANCIAL CRISIS NEARLY SANK the shipping industry, as manufacturing slowed and freight demand plummeted. But Liberty Maritime posted nearly 15% revenue growth last year by focusing [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz AT JUST 33 YEARS OLD, Hector Rivera is charged with preserving Manhattan's history and its future. As head of Borough President Scott Stringer's Topographical Bureau, he holds [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ IT'S EASY TO BE TURNED OFF BY Arthur Aidala. He's loud, he's brash, and he has to have the last word. Even his job title is somehow [...]

Byline: HILARY POTKEWITZ LURING SENIOR-LEVEL partners used to be a coup of the highest order, but not anymore. Sometime last year, the invisible hand of the legal market seemingly pressed [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Anthony Giudice saves lives every day. And although he rarely meets those he rescues, he knows their hearts are in the right place--unless it's their new kidneys [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz Rich stuff, this Merrill research on affluent Bank of america's Merrill Lynch Wealth Management group relaunched last fall as a more touchy-feely brokerage. Think cow, not bull. [...]

Byline: Hilary Potkewitz In the 1988 movie Big, Tom Hanks' character, a faux grown-up, lands a dream job testing toys for a giant toy company. Well, that job does exist [...]