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September 26, 2012

THE 30-MINUTE INTERVIEW: MaryAnne Gilmartin

The New York Times
by Vivian Marino

Synergy! The Times interviews its development partner's EVP a couple days before that development partner's new arena opens. And — of course — no interview with a Forest City Ratner or Nets executive would be complete without the obligatory "sleep? who needs sleep?" reference.

Ms. Gilmartin, 48, is executive vice president for commercial and residential development at Forest City Ratner Companies, which was a development partner of The New York Times’s headquarters. Its Barclays Center arena, part of the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, is to open this week.
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Q. You have a husband and three children. How do you juggle work and family life?

A. And three dogs, a goldfish and a bird.

I think sleep is overrated for a working mom.

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Posted by eric at September 26, 2012 11:03 AM