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CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS VOL. XXIX, NO. 23 CRONUT CRAZE MADE FRENCH CHEF PRINCE OF PASTRIES PAGE 7 ® WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM JUNE 10-16, 2013 PRICE: $3.00 RelSci.com: a Rolodex on steroids So you wanna meet the biggest bigwigs in business? Neal Goldman found a way Park sows seeds for Brooklyn land grab SIX DEGREES: Relationship Science combs the Web to see how you are connected with whom you want to meet. Developers queuing up for right to develop three sites bordering waterfront greenspace BY MATT CHABAN The three-year-old Brooklyn Bridge Park, with its lagoon, merry-goround, twisting wooden suspension bridge, grassy knolls and ball fields, is drawing more than throngs of visitors this spring. Dozens of developers from around the world are queuing up for a piece of the action on the park’s periphery on three different sites. Just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, 10 teams of top retailers and builders NUMBER OF to BIDDERS vying have submitted build an plans to transform apartment tower the long-derelict by the water 19th-century Em- at John Street pire Stores warehouses into a bustling shopping and office hub. Similarly, four blocks east, past the Manhattan Bridge, 11 big-name developers are vying for the right to build a residential tower with as many as 130 luxury units on a vacant lot. The winners in both contests are expected to be announced by Labor Day. Meanwhile, the area’s largest landlord, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, is marketing several of its biggest properties. Among those potentially interested in buying, according to sources close to the sales effort, is the Related Cos.— developer of everything from Manhattan’s ritzy Time Warner Center to the vast Hunter’s Point South middle-income apartment complex in Long Island City, Queens. “It certainly seems like we’ve created a place they’re all interested in investing in,” said Regina Myer, president of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the city entity overseeing development and 11 BY MATTHEW FLAMM buck ennis The biggest advantage to creating a business networking tool may be that the inventor gets to drum up business with it, too. That’s what veteran entrepreneur Neal Goldman is doing with his new business networking startup, Relationship Science, which CONTENT IS is something like an influencers’ KING AS Rolodex plugged into a Bloomberg TECH M&A HEATS UP terminal. DIGITAL NY: With a database of more than 2 PAGE 5 million names and 1 million organizations, RelSci compiles board and association memberships, school backgrounds, political and charitable donations, job histories and many other data sets to map paths among people across the business world.The idea is to pinpoint a connection—through a form of six degrees of sepSee BIGWIGS on Page 22 See PARK on Page 24 NEWSPAPER REPORT HEALTH CARE THE LIST Small businesses that want insurance may finally have a way to pay for it PAGE 13 Largest NY area hospitals PAGE 15 http://WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM http://www.RelSci.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Crains New York - June 10, 2013

SOURCE DINNER
IN THE BOROUGHS
IN THE MARKETS
DIGITAL NY
THE INSIDER
BUSINESS PEOPLE
SMALL BUSINESS
OPINION
STEVE HINDY
GREG DAVID
REPORT: HEALTH CARE
THE LIST
FOR THE RECORD
CLASSIFIEDS
REAL ESTATE DEALS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
OUT AND ABOUT
SNAPS

Crains New York - June 10, 2013