The gardeners who run La Plaza, as it is called in the neighborhood, staved off several attempts at the garden's development in the 1980s and '90s.
Nicknamed the "Jam Fairy" by her friends and admirers, Ms. Ferber, her sister and brother run La Maison Ferber, the family business that their father Maurice opened in the same building in 1959.
In the meantime, the partners who run La Goulue bought Mr. Bernbaum's building, transformed it into a French brasserie and, in a final dismantling of the Mortimer's legacy, are serving very good food.
On the village square, Mark Hartstone has run La Fosse, his restaurant with rooms, for eight years, using skills learned at such hallowed places as Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons and Chewton Glen.
Now the people who run La Coruña's enchanting aquarium dread the coming of a noxious black tide that has devastated marine life along more than 250 miles of Spain's Atlantic coast.
Hotard Coaches in New Orleans is contracted by the state to run LA Swift buses.
(They ran La Caravelle, a famous New York restaurant that closed in 2004).
Mr. Cross, 49, travels to Paris frequently for business, and for several years ran La Maison Moderne, a housewares shop in Chelsea.
"When friends have babies, I take ice cream to their houses," says Kitty Travers, who runs La Grotta Ices, a hole-in-the-wall in Bermondsey, south London.
Her father, Lello Arpaia, ran La Tavernetta in Woodmere, N.Y., for more than 30 years, and in the 1980s had two well-regarded Manhattan restaurants; he now runs Fiorini, on East 56th Street, two blocks from Mia Dona.
Even if Trump avoids unleashing toxic fumes in Motor City, however, he will remain radioactive to the likes of James Fugate, 61, who runs LA's Eso Won Books, one of the US's few remaining African American bookstores.
