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INSIDE HELLUVA TOWN Source Lunch Helping families affected by Alzheimer’s PAGE 22 Out and About Harlem Book Fair returns Arena takes the LEED Less than a year after it opened, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center has morphed from a feared neighborhood wrecker to an arena appreciated by basketball fans and concertgoers across the city. Even many area merchants and residents are giving it a thumbs-up. Now Barclays has scored another victory. Last month, the 18,000-seat building received a silver LEED rating in recognition of eco-friendly features, from the Cor-Ten steel framework shading its sides to the low-flow bathroom fixtures that help save 2 million bruce damonte PAGE 23 gallons of water a year. Another green feature: 91% of all the wood in the building—including the Nets’ basketball court—is certified sustainable. Barclays is one of just a handful of arenas in the nation to achieve the coveted LEED status, which, aside from bragging rights, can bestow tax and other financial benefits upon the landlord, not to mention that green buildings are cheaper to maintain. “We were sustainably minded through this whole process. LEED was always the underlying goal,” said Ayumi Sugiyama, project architect at SHoP, one of the two firms that designed the building for developer Forest City Ratner Cos. —irina ivanova PILING ON: Denise Oliveira brings her food scraps to the Union Square Greenmarket. Gelato maker warms to NY Trash talk Composting catches on in NY, but will mayor’s plan to make it mandatory come up smelling like a rose? E buck ennis Antonio Biagi didn’t choose the easy path when he opened a gelato shop, A.B. Biagi, in Nolita last month. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, where his family is one of the biggest producers of sugar, Mr. Biagi faced more than the usual challenges of opening a business in the Big Apple, including having no credit history in this country. “The bureaucracy for foreigners is crazy,” said the 30year-old, who was unable to qualify for a loan. He invested more than $1 million of his own money to open the bright-yellow shop on Elizabeth Street that serves Brazilian coffee and exotic flavors of gelato, such as basil and pine nut, and goat cheese with orange peel and anise. He also had to use his Italian passport to do business here, because of visa restrictions on Brazilians making investments in the U.S. Undaunted by the hurdles, the entrepreneur makes all the gelato himself every day and plans to start serving breakfast soon. “I think there is a market in New York City for two or three shops like this,” he said. —lisa fickenscher BY MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR very time she so much as peels a carrot, Denise Oliveira takes the waste and stores it in a bag in her freezer instead of throwing it in the garbage. Her freezer is often so full of scraps that there is no room for actual food, but that’s the only way Ms. Oliveira can compost without smelling up her small Manhattan apartment. ¶ Once a week, she lugs the bags to a composting bin at the Union Square Greenmarket. Ms. Oliveira, who learned about composting from her mother in Brazil, started doing it a year ago in observance of Lent. Her brother thinks it’s gross, and her friends think she’s weird. Even Ms. Oliveira admits that composting in New York City is not for the squeamish. “Sometimes you get to the greenmarket and the bin is already piled up so high that you are placing your scraps on this overflowing mountain,” said Ms. Oliveira, a freelance writer. ¶ “It is absolutely disgusting.” ¶ Ms. Oliveira is one of a small but growing number of New Yorkers who are finding ways to compost, even with the considerable handicaps of tiny living spaces. ¶ A head count on local composters is not available. But the Lower East Side See COMPOSTING on Page 22 SCRAP HEAP 30% AMOUNT of the city’s total waste that officials say could be composted 1.2M AMOUNT, in tons, of NYC’s organic waste that was sent to landfills in other states last year Source: Department of Sanitation July 15, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 21

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Crains New York - July 15, 2013
IN THE BOROUGHS
IN THE MARKETS
SMALL BUSINESS
THE INSIDER
BUSINESS PEOPLE
OPINION
STEVE HINDY
GREG DAVID
REAL ESTATE DEALS
REPORT: HEALTH CARE
CLASSIFIEDS
FOR THE RECORD
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
SOURCE LUNCH
OUT AND ABOUT
SNAPS

Crains New York - July 15, 2013