If UBS Moves Back To NYC, Stamford, CT Will Be "Ghost Town"

Because the most talent bankers apparently would rather live in New York City than Connecticut, the Swiss banking firm UBS is considering moving from its massive Stamford, CT headquarters back to the Big Apple. As UBS negotiates a deal at to-be-built 3 World Trade Center, a Stamford man who sells "'a whole lot' of brown-bagged bottles of liquor to UBS employees every evening," tells the NY Times ...

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Source: Gothamist

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