Op-Ed: Expanding EV charging is a climate justice imperative

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/22 5:03A Jeffrey Prosserman

Dear Mayor Mamdani, How New Yorkers move shapes the air we breathe and the health of our communities. You have spoken about improving transit equity, including your commitment to making city buses free. You have also outlined a climate-justice...

City's only Republican seat must be redrawn, helping Democrats

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/22 3:49A Laura Nahmias and Nacha Cattan,

A judge ruled that a New York congressional district must be redrawn, giving Democrats an opportunity to pick up another seat in Congress ahead of November's hotly-contested midterm elections. New York's 11th Congressional District, which is held...

Plaza District office tower owners abandon conversion plans

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/21 11:33P Aaron Elstein

The owners of a Plaza District office tower have dropped plans to convert the building into apartments and instead will keep it as offices, a decision that speaks to the extraordinary and rebounding demand for Manhattan office space — not to...

Hochul proposes $260 billion budget — with no hike to 'tax the rich'

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/20 8:16A Jack Grieve

Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing a $260 billion state budget that relies on higher-than-expected Wall Street revenues to increase spending on health care and education without raising taxes. The $260 billion figure is up from $254 billion last year,...

On Politics: Hochul might be NYC transit's best ally in a century

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/20 8:12A Ross Barkan

Kathy Hochul’s tenure as governor has not always been smooth. Her approval ratings, at times, have been middling, and she barely survived a re-election challenge from a Trump Republican. Yet it’s becoming clear, more than four years after she...

Mamdani revives contested Bronx housing project for former detainees

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/20 7:30A Amanda D Ambrosio

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reviving a long-contested Bronx housing development for formerly incarcerated individuals, reversing his predecessor’s attempts to derail the project. Mamdani said Monday that he will “reactivate” Just Home, an 83-unit...

Japanese investor buys flagship Birkenstock SoHo store for $18.5M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/20 6:48A Eddie Small

Another Japanese buyer has scooped up a Manhattan property in the latest sign of the country's renewed interest in New York real estate. An "ultra-high-net-worth private investor from Japan" has purchased 120 Spring St. in SoHo for $18.5 million...

City's commercial property values show year-over-year gains

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/15 9:37A Martin Z. Braun, Bloomberg

New York commercial property values are strengthening, buoyed by banks, tech companies and law firms moving into trophy offices . The market value of the city's offices, stores and hotels is projected to rise 4.3% to nearly $350 billion in the...

Mamdani administration sues delivery app and its CEO, alleging theft

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/15 8:29A Nick Garber

The city sued a food-delivery company accused of stealing money from its workers Thursday — the first significant enforcement move that the city’s worker-protection agency has made under new Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to aggressively...

Op-ed: Housing growth and public realm planning must go hand in hand

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/15 5:03A Regina Myer

New York City just welcomed a new administration with a clear mandate to lower housing costs and drive new construction throughout the entire city. With new policies and a renewed drive promising to unlock significant growth across all five...

Less red tape, more child care money and the same tax rates: 3 takeaways from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s...

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/13 11:33P C. J. Hughes, Ethan Geringer-Sam

When it comes to the city’s business community, Gov. Kathy Hochul seemed to channel her inner Goldilocks Tuesday in her State of the State address. Her wish list of policies promises not to be too tough on real estate investors and high earners....

Kathy Wylde’s exit interview: her career, her successor and why she voted for Mamdani

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/11 11:33P Nick Garber

For a quarter century, any politician pushing to restrain or regulate New York City’s big businesses could count on receiving a call from Kathryn Wylde. Executives looking to influence local government have called on her for advice. After Friday,...

Op-ed: How Mamdani can make NYC green AND affordable

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/8 5:03A Carter Strickland , John Surico

Floods in October claimed the lives of two more basement residents, a visceral reminder that poor New Yorkers suffer the most from extreme weather and that housing is intertwined with climate. Coming just weeks before an election in which climate...

Hochul to expand free child care in New York City, handing a win to Mamdani

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/8 3:51A Nick Garber

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Thursday to significantly expand free child care across the state, including new efforts in New York City — handing a major, if partial, victory to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on a promise of universal...

Former state senator sues to block NYCHA's Chelsea housing redevelopment

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/5 11:33P Aaron Elstein

A former state lawmaker claims the New York City Housing Authority’s plan to have a private developer raze and rebuild a public housing complex in Chelsea is illegal. In a lawsuit, former state Sen. Thomas Duane argued that NYCHA’s proposal to...