Four safety-net hospitals reach labor deals with nurses, but strike threat remains

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/8 9:16A Amanda D Ambrosio

Four safety-net hospitals in Brooklyn and Queens reached tentative labor deals with the nurses’ union late Wednesday on staffing and workplace protections — but the nurses’ wage increases remain contingent on negotiations with major academic...

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

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 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 (Education) 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...

Julie Menin elected council speaker, pledges to be ‘proactive’ in powerful post

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/7 7:43A Nick Garber

Julie Menin was unanimously elected Speaker of the City Council on Wednesday, elevating the Upper East Side moderate to one of the most powerful posts in the city in which she can both bolster and hamstring Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda. Menin...

Mamdani appoints civil rights attorney to lead city human rights commission

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/7 6:40A Julianne Cuba

Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapped Christine Clarke, chief of litigation and advocacy at Legal Services NYC, to run the city's Commission on Human Rights. Clarke, who now leads Legal Services' strategic advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers,...

NYC fights sale of bankrupt rentals after Mamdani blasts living conditions

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/7 5:46A Jonathan Randles, Bloomberg

Newly-inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agenda is facing its first test as the city balks at the  bankruptcy sale  of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments owned by Pinnacle Group, where residents have railed against...

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

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 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...

Two of New Jersey’s largest health care providers plan to merge

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/5 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Two of the largest health care providers in New Jersey plan to merge. RWJBarnabas Health announced Monday that it reached an agreement to merge with Englewood Health, absorbing its flagship hospital and 100 outpatient locations in northern New...

On Politics: Why Mamdani and Hochul need each other

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/5 5:26A Ross Barkan

For most New York City residents, the most consequential political relationship of 2026 will probably not be Zohran Mamdani’s with Donald Trump, no matter how much justified attention it has attracted. Rather, it will be Mamdani’s ties to Gov....

City taxis and buses pick up speed with congestion pricing toll

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/5 5:21A Michelle Kaske, Bloomberg

New York City’s public buses and taxis are traveling at faster speeds after the start of a controversial congestion-pricing program that charges motorists to drive on Manhattan’s busiest streets, according to a report from the Regional Plan...

10 things to watch in 2026

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/4 11:33P https://www.crainsnewyork.com/po

The past year witnessed the sinking of a feckless administration at City Hall and the unpredictable rise of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, 34, to take over the 330,000-person hub of city government. Public officials grappled with a...

Health and Hospitals faces perfect storm of more uninsured patients, less federal aid in 2026

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/2 12:03A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

A tough road for the city’s public hospitals could get tougher next year with the expected influx of uninsured patients and the anticipated evaporation of more than $600 million in federal Medicaid dollars. New York City Health and Hospitals is...

NYC subway says goodbye to MetroCard, but many riders already did

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 12/30 2:26A Aashna Shah, Bloomberg

The MetroCard — a blue-and-yellow pass that for more than three decades let riders into New York’s vast subway network with a swipe — will be retired on Wednesday, replaced by the already popular tap-and-go payment system. The Metropolitan...

Q&A: 2026 will be a ‘treacherous’ year for public health, city health commissioner says

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 12/30 12:03A Amanda D Ambrosio

The city’s Health Department is bracing for a turbulent year for public health as 20% of its budget — roughly $600 million in federal funding — is at risk due to the Trump administration’s threatened budget cuts, according to the city’s health...

Hochul vetoes hospital closure reform bill for the second year in a row

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 12/22 11:33P Amanda D Ambrosio

Gov. Kathy Hochul for the second time vetoed a bill to give communities more warning before hospitals close, blocking a measure that health advocates say is critical as federal funding cuts threaten to push financially struggling hospitals toward...