"I once asked a young lawyer why he wanted to move to Brooklyn Heights and he said, 'All the associates live on the Upper East Side and all the partners live in the Heights,' " said Mr. Ross, who grew up in the area and is also president of the Montague Business Improvement District.
"We hope to do our small part to build resiliency and promote wellness in the communities where our associates live and work and inspire others to do the same," Rawlins said.
Though some of his associates lived there, and though he filmed the movie "Chelsea Girls" there, he never lived in the hotel.
"We care deeply about the well-being of the community with over 3,000 of our own associates living and working in Chongqing," the company said.
Molotov — who, unlike many of Stalin's associates, lived to a ripe old age — typically professed ignorance about the fates of the people whose deaths he ordained.
I wander among the clusters of buildings just outside the Grand Plaza, and stop at one of them: a collection of 45 residential and administrative buildings where the royal family and their closest associates lived.
In the early days, all of two years ago, these were shared spaces or barely more than apartment-sized units populated by young associates living in the city, and occasionally partners who needed somewhere to meet other than The Creamery.
While others in his city starved, and were even reduced to cannibalism, Jan and his close associates lived in royal splendor, all, he claimed, for the glory of God.
Carey Carpenter, partnerships associate, Living Goods, Kampala, Uganda, @Living_Goods Carey works to design and scale up networks of community health entrepreneurs.
Although many people associate living on the Grand Concourse with living in an Art Deco building, simple five- and six-story brick structures actually make up the bulk of the housing stock.
Michael Morris, the head of a social intelligence program at Columbia's business school and a professor in Columbia's psychology department, said that historically, Americans often associated living debt free with economic success and even wholeness.
