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Global Business: Brooklyn Start-Ups

Brooklyn Start-Ups

24/11/2012

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Peter Day asks if Brooklyn's artisan start-ups can revive the New York borough’s industry.

Peter Day asks whether the trendy but tiny artisan food start-ups in the New York City borough of Brooklyn can revive an area that used to be the city’s industrial heartland.

Peter Day reports from the New York City borough of Brooklyn, that used to be the city’s industrial heartland, and home to companies like the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.  Brooklyn’s manufacturing base has been in long-term decline, but now artisan start-up companies are making the borough hip again, and bringing new employment. Ironically, some are housed in the former Pfizer headquarters. Can they reverse Brooklyn’s industrial decline? 

Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Photo: The owners of People’s Pops, Joel Horowitz, Nathalie Jordi and David  Carrell, started selling their fruit-based ice lollies at a flea market stall.


Nathalie Jordi
Co-founder and co-owner, People’s Pops

Joel Horowitz
Co-founder and co-owner, People’s Pops 

Antonio Ramos
Co-founder and co-owner, Brooklyn Soda Works

Eric Demby
Co-founder and partner, Brooklyn Flea market 

Ronda Kaysen
Contributor to the New York Times 

Eric Childs
Founder and CEO, Kombucha Brooklyn

Jessica Childs
CFO, Kombucha Brooklyn

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