11 Years, 5 months, One Dead Chair
It's a little odd sitting in an office that has been denuded of all my personal possessions as we wait for the witching hour -- 5:00 pm when the freight elevators are magically available for our "big" office move. I am sitting in a chair that tilts a little bit to the left. It's old and worn and being left behind as we march down Manhattan to our new digs. Hard to believe but we've been here 11 years and five months. The chair has served me well. I remember like it was yesterday our move into this office back in December 1999. We were coming from a space we had outgrown on the upper East side of New York City. That office -- unlike the office I am sitting in now -- had the advantage of being just across the street from Bloomingdale's and just above Gino's . Gino's was a great NYC institution -- an all-cash Italian restaurant with grumpy Italian waiters from the old country. It closed last year -- a victim of a landlord's desire to make m...