Joining longtime tenants like Sweet'n Low and the Brink's armored car service, which with 500 workers is the yard's biggest employer, are companies like Scott Jordan Furniture, which makes custom tables and bed frames, and Capsys, which uses a cavernous 1940's brick building to make prefabricated houses.
In the old days, part of the attraction of being a Jets fan was the anguish, the high and lows, being pushed to the brink.
The main transfer mechanism is land and housing costs, as rising rents and evictions push service and other low-wage workers to the brink.
Last week, Lampedusa was on the brink of collapse, running low on food and water, with thousands of migrants sleeping in the open air.
But it was on June 22, a Saturday in which the Dodgers were in San Diego, that they appeared to be on the brink of a new low: Padres pitcher Edinson Volquez carried a no-hitter against them into the sixth inning.
Like almost all Doyle's work, it's very likable, and its low-key, character-driven approach to describing life in Ireland, "a small country on the brink of collapse", is very effective.
Since that dizzying high point, the art market – and every other market besides – has suffered lows, teetered, at times, on the brink of collapse.
The three-day expo features workshops ("Total Salon Makeover: Saving and Rebuilding a Tanning Business on the Brink"), new products (the CosmoLux 9K90 low-pressure sunlamp), and, occasionally, themed entertainment.
But low rates tend not to benefit those on the brink; and an initially modest rise would offer a salutary reminder that borrowing has a cost.
Brink's shares climbed from a predeal low of $30 to $52 when the sale was completed.
