Those whose newly acquired goods were taken by others did not express much anger.
Sickles Street derives from Zachariah Sickels, who arrived in New Harlem in 1693 and whose descendants acquired various local properties.
Trading Options Fortunately for them they did not have to travel to the cities whose teams acquired them.
Cathy Horyn, the fashion critic for The Times, wrote this week's cover story about Richard Perry, a hedge-fund manager whose firm acquired Barneys, the iconic New York clothing store, earlier this year.
"We're out of gas before we turn the lights on," said I. H. Kempner III, Imperial Sugar's chairman, whose family acquired its first holdings in 1907.
Among them is Ms. Guaspari, whose program acquired such resonance that the New York music establishment famously stepped in to save it when the Board of Education cut financing in 1991.
So earlier this year, Mr. Lachmann reached an agreement with the Decoster and Verspieren families, whose forebears acquired Legrand in 1944 and built it into a major supplier of electrical products, to acquire it for $7 billion in Schneider stock.
Green, whose group acquired the assets, says "all questions will be answered".
But one of the biggest winners could be Adobe Systems, whose newly acquired animation and site-design software, Flash, has become the hottest tool for Web video.
Among the notables is flamboyant liquor and airlines tycoon Vijay Mallya, whose UB Group acquired Scottish distiller Whyte & Mackay for $1.2 billion in May 2007 to become the world's second-largest spirits group.
