Letter: Loosen Airbnb rules to provide an economic lifeline

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/17 3:03A Gia Sharp

Recent coverage of the pending short-term rental legislation has focused on the large corporations battling for market share, overshadowing the everyday New Yorkers that Councilmember Narcisse’s bill, Intro 948, is meant to help [" Editorial:...

Ultra-luxury hotel planned for Madison Avenue in rare post-pandemic development

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/16 11:33P Julianne Cuba

The owners of Manhattan's upscale Lowell Hotel are moving ahead with plans to convert a 21-story Madison Avenue office building into an even ritzier property—one of the first new hotel developments in the city since the pandemic upended the...

NYC expands job training as new SNAP work requirements loom

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/15 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

As new federal work requirements loom for SNAP benefits, New York City is expanding job training and education programs to help thousands of affected recipients comply. The Trump administration's upcoming rule change, which takes effect in March,...

Philanthropist supports the arts and sports as a path to wellbeing

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/15 3:50A https://www.crainsnewyork.com/cr

In establishing the fund in 2007, Tisch — a 2025 Crain’s Notable Leader in Philanthropy — built on decades of experience in nonprofits and civic affairs in New York City. She co-chairs the campaign committee for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan...

Trump’s ‘deadly’ policies could reverse NYC's life expectancy gains, health chief warns

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/14 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

Federal policy changes under the Trump administration could reverse New York City’s historic rise in life expectancy, the city's top doctor warned Friday. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration set a goal in 2023 to boost New Yorkers’ life expectancy to...

Record $83M in big-money spending couldn't buy NYC mayoral race

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/14 11:33P Nick Garber

Corporations and wealthy people dumped nearly $83 million into New York City’s elections this year, shattering previous records. But Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory proved that the city’s generous public matching funds program is an effective...

Council tweaks but advances controversial housing, Airbnb bills

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/12 6:30A Nick Garber

The City Council is advancing nearly all of the controversial bills affecting housing, short-term rentals and street vending that have stoked opposition from big business and some tenant groups, teeing them up for potential votes next week. And...

Harvard professor, Vanderbilt chief exit Columbia’s top job search

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/11 6:58A Francesca Maglione and Nacha Cat

Columbia University extended its search for a new president as it seeks to find a permanent replacement after losing two leaders in the past 16 months. The school said in April it wanted a new president to take office no later than Jan. 1 but has...

City to ship goods between Brooklyn and Manhattan in test of ‘Blue Highways’

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/11 5:48A Nick Garber

Consumer goods will be shipped on ferryboats between Brooklyn and Manhattan starting Thursday in the first major test of the Blue Highways plan — an initiative by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration that aims to reduce the use of trucks by...

These are the New York area's largest tech unicorns

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/10 11:48P Jack Grieve

New York has a new largest tech unicorn, and it's not even close. Corporate spending automation platform Ramp ranked No. 1 on Crain's annual list of the city's largest tech unicorns after a recent $32 billion valuation. The Flatiron-based fintech...

New York congestion fee cuts pollution by 22% in toll area

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/9 11:33P Michelle Kaske, Bloomberg

Pollution in parts of Manhattan declined by 22% in the first six months of this year after motorists began paying a new toll to drive south of 60th Street, according to a Cornell University analysis. The new fee, the first of its kind in the...

AG James presses for citywide B-Heard expansion after fatal police shooting

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/7 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday declined to pursue criminal charges against two police officers who fatally shot a teen in mental distress last year. But at the same time, James urged the city to expand a controversial non-police...

Kathryn Wylde: Governor should sign Medical Aid in Dying bill

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/7 11:33P Kathryn Wylde

Among more than one hundred pieces of legislation awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature or veto is a bill that would give terminally ill New Yorkers the option of a carefully managed death. As I come within a decade of my own life expectancy, it...

Judge allows elderly residents to stay in Chelsea public housing targeted for demolition

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/4 11:33P Aaron Elstein

About 20 elderly residents who have refused to move out of Chelsea public housing slated for imminent demolition can remain in their homes for at least a while longer after a judge denied the New York City Housing Authority’s request for an order...

Adams issues order banning Israel divestment

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 12/4 11:33P Laura Nahmias, Bloomberg

Mayor Eric Adams issued a pair of executive orders aimed at addressing antisemitism, his office said, weeks before Zohran Mamdani takes his place. Adams, who recently returned from a trip to Israel, issued an executive order prohibiting city...