NYC travel snarled by snow as Central Park gets 15 inches

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/23 4:30A Michelle Kaske and Aashna Shah,

If you’re trying to get into New York City on Monday, unless it’s essential, you’re probably better off hunkering down at home.  Traveling into the area by car, plane, bus or train is proving difficult thanks to an intense winter storm that’s...

H+H names new CEO to lead Maimonides after state-backed merger closes

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/19 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

New York City Health + Hospitals tapped longtime hospital executive Svetlana Lipyanskaya to lead Maimonides Health on Thursday, selecting her to take over once the city’s pending acquisition of the Brooklyn safety-net system is approved.  ...

Mamdani's team brings on a second press aide from Chicago

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/19 11:33P Jack Grieve

Cassio Mendoza, the press secretary for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, is leaving his role in the country's third-largest city to become a deputy press secretary for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Part of what makes Mendoza's move to New York interesting...

New York’s robotaxi plan pulled in blow to Waymo expansion

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/19 5:53A Natalie Lung, Bloomberg

Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal that would have allowed for commercial robotaxi services outside New York City, a blow to Alphabet's Waymo as it seeks to aggressively expand its driverless fleet this year. The proposal, which Hochul had...

Op-ed: Preparing New Yorkers for the AI economy

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/19 5:03A Julie Won, Carmen De La Rosa, Ca

Artificial Intelligence is transforming nearly every sector of our economy – as well as how companies are hiring, the skills that are in-demand, and what’s necessary to secure a quality job.  While AI holds tremendous potential, its rapid...

Hochul to restore millions in public health aid to the city after Cuomo cuts

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/18 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to restore tens of millions of dollars in recurring public health aid to the city that was cut by her predecessor as part of a $1.5 billion infusion to help Mayor Zohran Mamdani fill the city’s two-year budget gap. The...

‘Go to hell’: A look at a legal standoff at the former Modell’s site in Bay Ridge

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/18 11:33P Julian Nazar

Sammy Alsidi, Launch Trampoline Park's New York City operator, says he never wanted to take his landlord to court. But he now finds himself at the center of a legal battle that is threatening to upend the entertainment destination's Bay Ridge...

Inside Mayor Zohran Mamdani's $127B preliminary budget

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/17 11:33P Jack Grieve, Ethan Geringer-Same

Call it a placeholder with teeth. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's preliminary 2027 budget leans on an unpopular property tax increase and reserve drawdowns. Nobody seems happy about it, not even the mayor himself, and the final version adopted in June...

On Politics: Six revenue strategies Mamdani's city budget overlooked

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/17 11:33P Ross Barkan

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s bid to close a $5 billion budget gap through an income tax hike is understandable enough, if Gov. Kathy Hochul has indicated it probably won’t happen. Now Mamdani, with his $127 billion preliminary budget, is resorting to...

Op-ed: City's new comptroller, pension trustees must lead on climate

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/12 5:03A Loren Blackford

Three of New York City’s pension funds are now weighing whether to move tens of billions of dollars from BlackRock over concerns about the asset manager’s climate risk management and decarbonization plans. This decision could be a wake-up call...

Mamdani names entrepreneur, Obama admin alum to city's chief tech role

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/10 11:33P Jack Grieve

An Obama administration alum and veteran computer scientist who helped create GIF technology and launch Hulu is set to become New York City's next chief technology officer. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday afternoon that Lisa Gelobter, current...

Workplace provider Mindspace adds more than 11K in Williamsburg

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/9 6:40A Julian Nazar

Mindspace will expand its office footprint at a Class-A office building in Williamsburg by around 11,500 square feet this summer.   With this expansion, the global flexible workplace provider will occupy approximately 50,000 square feet on the...

Op-ed: A democratic socialist mayor could have the credibility to tame government

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/8 11:33P Andrew Rein

Mayor Zohran Mamdani agreeing with Comptroller Mark Levine that New York City faces a massive budget shortfall evokes "Casablanca’s" famous line: "I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here!” The daunting gap should not be a...

Op-ed: AI Is quietly killing entry-level white-collar jobs. NYC will feel it first.

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/5 9:03A James Ding

The New York City economy runs on a specific demographic: the 24-year-old analyst working 80-hour weeks, the first-year associate billing midnight hours, the junior consultant traveling Monday through Thursday. These ambitious, well-compensated...

Developer scoops up Gowanus site for $19M

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/5 7:34A Julian Nazar

Real estate executive Zelig Weiss has purchased a development site in Brooklyn's red-hot Gowanus neighborhood for $19 million, according to sources familiar with the matter. Weiss intends to build a six-story, approximately 95,200-square-foot...