Ilya Marritz

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WNYC’s Lisa Chow reports wholesalers and retailers are cautiously optimistic at the New York International Gift Fair.

A survey out today finds Dunkin has 429 stores in the five boroughs, and is the number one chain (in terms of storefronts) for the second year in a row. What's more, Dunkin added a mind-blowing 88 stores since 2008, despite losing 12 outlets that became Tim Horton's ...

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Why the donut chain and other food retailers are expanding in New York City. Guest: Jonathan Bowles, Director of the Center for an Urban Future.

“Return of the Chains” (Center for an Urban Future)

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HOST: It’s been seven weeks since a former freight railway line on the west side of Manhattan opened as a public park, and the High Line seems to be a hit. Here’s visitor Kay Sloves.

SLOVES: It sort of gives me the feeling of an English ...

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One proposal to regulate credit derivatives. Guest: Rep. Michael McMahon (D-Staten Island & Brooklyn)

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The commercial vacancy rate rises. Guest: Christine Haughney, reporter for the New York Times.

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A seven-acre site west of Albany will soon function like a giant electric battery for the northeast.

This month the federal Department of Energy awarded a $43-million loan-guarantee to Beacon Power to develop a system to store excess electricity through so-called flywheel technology. It relies on ...

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The Ins and Outs of Obama’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Guest: Alyssa Katz, journalist and author.

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Albany lawmakers came close, but ultimately failed to pass an e-waste bill, requiring manufacturers to dispose of consumer electronics. WNYC's Ilya Marritz has more.

REPORTER: Many states already have e-waste laws, and passing one in New York was considered enough of a priority that it made ...

Financial 411 regular Greg David writes in the journal Financial History that the fast-money 1980s Wall Street ethos Michael Lewis described in Liar’s Poker lived on through the 1990s and 2000s. Like it or not, David writes, New York City lives from the financial industry.

>>The Securities Industry And ...

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You could think of it as a game of musical chairs involving The New York Times, Spanish language broadcaster Univision, and this station, WNYC.

When the music stops, Univision's La Kalle station will move down the radio dial to a more desirable frequency; WQXR, the classical ...

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Major changes are coming to New Yorkers' radio dials. In a three-party deal announced today, the city's only full-time classical radio station -- WQXR -- will be acquired by WNYC, and the New York Times will get out of the radio business. WNYC's Ilya Marritz ...

Definitely the oddest tidbit I have unearthed so far in sorting through Mayor Bloomberg's latest campaign spending report: Rudolph Giuliani is working for the Bloomberg campaign.

That's Rudolph S. Giuliani...the second cousin of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to Bloomberg campaign spokeswoman Jill ...

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The deadlock in the state Senate may be over, but weeks of legislative inaction have caused plenty of economic harm. WNYC's Ilya Marritz surveys the damage.

REPORTER: New York City had been counting on a half a percent sales tax hike, starting June 1. Without that ...

Two interesting indicators on NYC real estate today in the Wall Street Journal:

1) New York City leads the nation's cities in the 12-month percentage decline in average monthly residential rents: -5.8% compared with #5 Miami, at ...

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Investors seek riches in the distressed commercial property market. Guest: Anton Troianovski, reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

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A private equity firm plans to close the Stella d’Oro factory in the Bronx. Guest: Patrick McGeehan, reporter for the New York Times.

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Mayor Bloomberg concedes that the city health department needs to do a better job overseeing food vending permits after six people were arrested last week for selling their permits on the black market. Investigators believe at least 500 food vendor permits are probably held illegally. ...

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Regional banks are mobilizing to oppose it a bill President Obama introduced that would create a new federal agency to oversee almost all consumer lending, as WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports.

REPORTER: No bank - big or small - likes the idea of a federal regulator saying ...

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Companies are supposed to give employees two months warning in advance of layoffs, but they don’t always do it. Guest: Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, reporter for the Wall Street Journal.