Brendan Ryan, Mr. Fix-It

No detail is too small to escape the attention of Brendan Ryan, especially when it comes to Foote, Cone & Belding’s new office space. Ryan last week sent a long memo to the 900 souls who moved earlier this month from the shop’s longtime space on East 42nd Street to West 33rd. In it, he addresses everything from the gritty charm of the neighborhood (“kind of like NYPD Blue ‘live’ “) to the bathroom amenities (“little shelves will be installed in all the stalls, thereby significantly reducing the number of cell phones tumbling into toilet bowls”).