Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with her has been a difficult and ongoing process. When I think about my closest friendships, I realize that many of them were ignited by similar interests. Whether impersonating Madonna at my fifth grade talent show with Rachel, traveling from Camp Scatico to Cannes with Dina, hitting seedy New York dance clubs with Judd, gorging food with Madeline or sharing a room the size of a closet with Heather, my friendships have emerged out of shared experiences. While I'm not best friends with these people just because we had a jazzy talent show act or we shared a slice...
...blue dress shirt, khakis and slicked-back hair. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, Yadin moved to the city to work as an analyst for Broadview, a boutique investment bank specializing in high-tech firms. There are thousands of young people like him in New York, working a two-year stint in finance, sporting dress shoes and bulging billfolds. From the outside it looks like the lifestyle of a GAP ad--urban excitement plus youth plus heaps of money...
...Shemmer lived in New York growing up, but was born in Tel Aviv--there's an Israeli flag in his bedroom and a military uniform in his closet. A psychology major at Penn, his only real business experience in college came almost by chance: one summer he found a job at an Israeli Internet start-up, as a secretary, but the strapped company promoted him on the second day. Shemmer's job at Broadview was equally unplanned. Unlike better-known investment banks, Broadview limits its business to the high-tech sector--Internet start-ups, Web-based companies, computer firms. Broadview...
...Shemmer sings the praises of the investment banker's life, we're speeding in a cab across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey. Broadview's "New York" office is actually in Fort Lee, N.J.--not exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants...
...Hanging out around the table, the analysts look like a bunch of fraternity brothers in dress shirts. Of the dozen recent college graduates who work in the New York office, only two are women. With almost all males, the office has a rambunctious feel--Shemmer slaps his friends on the back and calls them "boys"; another recruit is a "stud." Several of the analysts' cubicles sport posters of scantily clad women, advertisements for a Web site called Bikini.com. "You get a bunch of 22, 23-year old alpha males, you're going to get a certain environment," an analyst tells...