After riding a proverbial roller coaster the past two years due to fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, RVC Works now has a wide range of members working from the co-working space.
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Samanea New York To Debut Multiple New Tenants In 2022
Samanea New York is gearing up for a busy 2022, with multiple new tenants poised to open for business during the first half of the year and beyond.
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Insieme Wines is a wine-making facility with a tasting room that opened in Oceanside's industrial zone in December 2021. (Photo: The Marketry)
Industrial Winery in Oceanside Brings Variety to Long Island
Located on the edge of Oceanside's industrial zone, Insieme Wines was abuzz Sunday afternoon with patrons sipping reds and whites while seated at high-top tables lined alongside oak barrels stacked on racks.
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Series on Roosevelt Field and Simon Property Group
My four-part series on the strategies that Roosevelt Field, one of the top-tier malls in the nation on Long Island, and its owner Simon Property Group, the largest owner of U.S. malls, have adopted to compete in general and in the age of Amazon in particular.
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A five-time martial arts champion, Christian Defiris strikes a pose in ECF Elite Martial Arts & Fitness in Oceanside, his gym that he relocated from Lynbrook in August. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Martial Arts Gym Owner Fights Through Pandemic Woes
After absorbing a financial gut punch from the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns at his martial arts gym in Lynbrook, Christian Defiris dusted himself off and personally built a new facility in Oceanside.
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Former Equity Trader Ian Linde Finds Happiness in Rock Memorabilia
Fresh from the “I Worked on Wall Street But It Left Me Unfulfilled” file, meet Ian Linde, late of the $40 billion Jeffries Group and a successful equity trader with Lehman Brothers-Barclays before that.
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Students perform research in a lab at the Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation Center at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Tech Incubators Hatching Startups Across Long Island
The state’s Start-Up NY program may be a bit of a dud, but that hasn’t slowed the pace of other university-based programs that seek to support and commercialize innovation from students, staff and the region’s sundry entrepreneurs.
Read MoreTarp Fraud Charges Leveled Against Execs of Failed Fla. Bank
Two former executives of the failed GulfSouth Private Bank in Destin, Fla., and another man have been indicted on federal charges of defrauding the Troubled Asset Relief Program of $7.5 million.
Read MoreFormer Pinnacle Director Agrees to Larger Fine for Insider Trading
A former director at Pinnacle Financial Partners who pleaded guilty to insider trading agreed to pay a heftier fine after a judge rejected the initial penalty as being too low.
Read MoreVernon Hill Returns to U.S. Banking as Chairman of Pa. Bank
Vernon Hill is back. The legendary founder and CEO of the former Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, N.J., on Monday was named chairman at Republic First Bancorp in Philadelphia. Hill has been a major investor in and a consultant to the $1.7 billion-asset Republic First since late last decade and over the years Republic First has added many Commerce-like features to its branches, including seven-day-a-week banking and free coin counting.
Read MoreFranklin Doesn't Wait for Deal to Close to Hire Its Target's CEO
Franklin Financial Network in Tennessee hit a roadblock in its plan to buy Civic Bank & Trust in Nashville, but that didn't stop Franklin from hiring away Civic's chief executive.
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Photo Courtesy: Park Sterling Bank
The Art of Poaching Talent at Park Sterling in N.C.
Park Sterling in Charlotte, N.C., is making a habit of treating its rivals as a farm system for banking talent.
Read More50 Schools Now Call PNC Their 'Official' Bank
PNC Financial Services Group has been named the official bank of the University of Kentucky, its 50th such partnership with a college or university.
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Investor to Seacoast: Board Elections Show 'Profound Dissatisfaction'
Another shot has been fired in the ongoing feud between an investor group and Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida in Stuart.
Read MoreCalifornia Bankers Association Names Board Chair
Louise Walker, the head of First Northern Bank in Dixon, Calif., will be wearing an additional hat over the next year — chair of the California Bankers Association.
Read MoreBluetooth Beacons Start to Connect Banks with Retailers
Bluetooth beacons — small nightlight-sized devices that can communicate with a mobile app as shoppers move throughout a store — may have the same potential for bank branches as they do for mega-retailers like Target Corp.
Read MoreBeyond the Lens
At the same time Apple unveiled new or upgraded iPhones, iPads and other products to the usual press fanfare last week, Canon U.S.A. held its largest technology showcase, an event it stages at cities worldwide only every five years.
Read MoreRiding the Wave of Vinyl’s Revival
When Alex Abrash landed a job after college in 1984 with a Poughkeepsie company that released classical music on open reel-to-reel tapes, the vinyl record was king of musical formats, and a new technology, a compact disc, was poised to dethrone it.
Read MorePaddleboard Shop Thrives in Babylon
Karen Marvin opened South Shore Paddleboards in May 2014, about a year after she first tried stand-up paddleboarding.
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Crafting Beer-friendly Laws
Since he sold his first keg in March 2009, Greg Martin, co-owner of Long Ireland Brewery in Riverhead, has averaged 25 percent annual growth and 35 percent last year, reflecting the soaring popularity for craft beer across Long Island and New York in recent years.