Making us proud in New York

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Whether from Lebanon’s coast, mountains, valleys or plains, Lebanese expatriates in New York City share at least one common attribute: they saw in the Big Apple a land of opportunities. All this week Executive will be profiling Lebanon’s biggest NYC successes.  See: Eight top Lebanese on Wall Street Many packed their bags during the civil war with gun shots and bombs ringing in the background, escaping civil strife and dead-end career prospects, crossing thousands of miles in the hope that the land once offered by England’s King Charles II to his brother the Duke of York — the ‘York’ in New York — would offer them a better future. And the island of Manhattan, the capital of global finance as the home of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the world’s largest bourse, has offered a fertile field for their dreams.  New York-based Lebanese expatriates now hold crucial positions at