New York businesses fret over Trump tariffs with billions at stake

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 2/3 7:47A Nick Garber

New York businesses on Monday were puzzling over how to respond to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, which could severely impact local firms and quickly drive up the cost of products. Although Trump on Monday...

UN Plaza buildings to undergo $500M facelift

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 2/3 7:32A Dina Katgara and Natalie Wong, B

Two major United Nations buildings in Manhattan will be renovated in a $500 million project, helping the organization consolidate its office footprint in the city. The United Nations Development Corp. is redeveloping 1 and 2 United Nations Plaza,...

New Yorkers involuntarily transported for psych evaluation more than 7,700 times in 2024

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 2/3 6:58A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Police and outreach workers involuntarily transported people more than 7,700 times for a psychiatric evaluation last year under a controversial Adams administration directive to hospitalize more individuals with untreated mental illness, according...

On Politics: If Mayor Eric Adams’ charges are dropped, what next?

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 2/3 6:49A Ross Barkan

What will actually happen to Mayor Eric Adams? In recent days, reports have emerged that the Justice Department, now under the dominion of President Donald Trump, might drop the corruption charges former U.S. Attorney Damian Williams brought last...

The barriers to AI are breaking. New York is barging in.

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 2/3 12:03A Jack Grieve

Last week, DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence startup, demonstrated a new AI model that offers comparable performance to Big Tech's best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of their development cost. With Silicon Valley on its heels and a...

De Blasio-era mental health teams see staffing shortage while new ones launch

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 2/2 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

A de Blasio-era homeless outreach program has quietly cut its operations in half in the last year due to a city hiring freeze that has left the program understaffed. The city’s Co-Response teams, jointly operated by the Health Department and...

Editorial: City should rein in migrant hotel program as crisis ebbs

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 1/31 8:15A The editors

By every objective measure, New York City’s migrant crisis has ebbed. Bus loads of migrants stopped streaming into the city after the Biden administration moved to limit border crossings, reversing earlier policies, and the federal government...

NY Red Bulls president predicts bright future for soccer in the U.S.

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 1/31 12:03A Eddie Small

Marc de Grandpré has long been obsessed with sports, but soccer was not always one of them. Growing up in Quebec, his main athletic passions were hockey and baseball. He has fond memories of going to Montreal Expos games before the team moved to...

Pending Beth Israel closure bolsters NYU Langone’s revenue growth

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 1/30 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

NYU Langone is making more money from rising emergency room visits and hospital discharges as downtown residents prepare for its neighboring Beth Israel Hospital’s potential closure . The Midtown East-based health system brought in $3.7 billion...

Outpatient surgeries, planned Beth Israel closure bolster NYU’s revenue growth

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 1/30 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

NYU Langone is making more money from increased visits to its outpatient surgical clinics, as well as more emergency rooms visits amid the planned closure of its neighboring Beth Israel Hospital . The Midtown East-based health system brought in...

Uber, Lyft face antitrust probe over New York City driver pay agreement

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 1/30 6:51A Leah Nylen and Natalie Lung, Blo

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing whether Uber Technologies and Lyft illegally coordinated to limit driver pay in New York City, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. So-called civil investigative demands, which are similar...

Fund for the City of New York accuses contractors’ group of $850K theft

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 1/30 12:08A Nick Garber

A prominent construction-industry nonprofit is being accused by its former financial sponsor of mismanaging more than $850,000 and diverting the cash to a secret bank account. The nonprofit, the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors, denied the...

Op-ed: Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment is an engine for Bronx economic growth

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 1/29 6:03A Ariel Aufgang, AIA

The Bronx is home to what is one of the largest adaptive reuse and preservation projects currently in the United States, the renovation and repurposing of the immense Kingsbridge Armory. Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul recently...

Council prods city health officials for data on opioid settlement funds

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 1/28 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

Local health officials offered a look into the addiction treatment and recovery programs that received millions after months of criticism over the city’s lack of transparency around its opioid settlement fund spending. Officials from the...

Trump's federal funding pause threatens New York programs

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 1/28 9:15A Laura Nahmias, Shruti Date Singh

President Donald Trump’s federal funding pause threatens more than $1 trillion that flows to states, cities and other local governments, putting everything from transit infrastructure to housing projects at risk. Trump’s acting budget director...