[3] Barbey is one of the heirs to the VF Corporation retail fortune that includes Vans, The North Face, The Timberland Company, and Lee jeans.
[4] Fewer than a dozen Barbey family members own almost 20% of VF Corporation, which has $12 billion in annual revenues.
[5] In October 2015, through his newly created Black Walnut Holdings, he acquired The Village Voice.
In his announcement, Barbey promised a "fully digitized Voice archive [for] coming generations", with some employees staying on to complete that task.
[9] Three-time Voice art critic Peter Schjeldahl remembered his stints at the publication in a piece in The New Yorker at the time.