OUR Bangkok-based correspondent gives the low-down on doing business in the city.
Mr. O'Connor originally sided with labor unions that had sought to block Wal-Mart from doing business in the city.
And doing business in the city is not too tricky either: avoid silly redneck jokes and you'll be fine.
Companies that repeatedly violate sign rules could be temporarily banned from doing business in the city.
For those doing business in the city, the hotel has five reception rooms accommodating 12 to 120 people.
But Mayor McLaughlin said builders and others were going to have to get used to a new way of doing business in the city.
Now, after 22 months of doing business in the city, Commerce has 17 branches, 100,000 accounts, $1 billion in deposits -- and plans for more growth.
Many supermarkets, like Key Food, are trying to be creative about finding new ways to generate revenue "because of the cost of doing business in the city," said Nelson Eusebio, executive director of the National Supermarket Association.
City officials argue, however, that the measure of wealth used by the state, the Combined Wealth Ratio, does not take into account the percentage of people living in poverty or the higher relative costs of doing business in the city.
Furthermore, the justice concluded that New York City's ranking overstates its wealth because it fails to account for the cost of doing business in the city, which is higher, he said, than in the rest of the state.
