City launches long-delayed office to regulate e-bike delivery boom

CrainsNewYork.com (Biotech) 6/30 10:05A Caroline Spivack

The Adams administration is spending $6.1 million to create a Department of Sustainable Delivery that will regulate the swell of app-based delivery workers who rely on e-bikes. The funds come a year and a half after Mayor Eric Adams announced...

Luckin, China’s largest coffee chain, launches in NYC as it takes on Starbucks in home region

NYPost.com (Business) 6/30 8:25A Taylor Herzlich

Luckin Coffee opened its first US locations Monday in New York City.

Mayor Adams can’t block ban on solitary confinement in city jails, judge rules

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 6/30 8:22A Nick Garber

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in city jails, a judge ruled Monday. First passed by the City Council in December 2023, the law would prohibit jail staff...

On Politics: Don’t bet on Adams beating Mamdani

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 6/30 7:46A Ross Barkan

Can Mayor Eric Adams actually save himself? The beleaguered incumbent, who is now competing as an independent in the November general election, kicked off his re-election bid at City Hall last week. Hundreds of supporters filled the steps and it...

NYC offering 100K free tickets to Macy's July 4 fireworks show: What to know

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 6/30 5:00A NBC New York Staff

Planning to check out the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show in person this year? It will launch from the Brooklyn Bridge and four barges in the East River at the Seaport District. New York City is offering 100,000 free tickets to Friday’s...

Turnbridge Equities signs sizable lease with bus company in Gravesend

CrainsNewYork.com (Wall Street) 6/30 12:33A Julianne Cuba

Manhattan-based developer Turnbridge Equities has inked a long-term lease with one of the largest transportation companies in the country to take over what's now a massive vacant lot in southern Brooklyn, the real estate firm announced Friday....

Mamdani’s win shows how much tide has turned toward tenants

CrainsNewYork.com (Wall Street) 6/30 12:33A C. J. Hughes

Many landlords make no secret of their disdain for the pro-renter reforms enacted in the past few years. But among affordable-housing advocates, local leaders and the general public, laws focused on curbing housing costs seem more popular than...

Extreme heat complicates homeless outreach

CrainsNewYork.com (Wall Street) 6/30 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

With temperatures rising over 100 degrees last week, heat-related illness among the city’s street homeless became a serious concern for outreach workers toiling under the same conditions. People living unsheltered are at particular risk of...

Zohran Mamdani says ‘I don't think we should have billionaires'

NBCNewYork.com (Politics News) 6/29 11:52A Alexandra Marquez | NBC News

Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York City and a self-identified democratic socialist, on Sunday said billionaires contribute to inequality.

Trump calls Mamdani a ‘pure communist,’ threatens to cut off NYC federal funds if he’s elected...

NYPost.com (Metro) 6/29 5:21A Ronny Reyes

President Trump slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a “pure communist,” warning that federal funding for the Big Apple could be at risk if the democratic socialist wins the general election. “He s a communist, I think it s...

Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes — and says...

NYPost.com (Metro) 6/29 4:21A Ryan King

Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” on Sunday — and also asserted that billionaires shouldn t exist. Mamdani claimed that his...

Electing Zohran Mamdani NYC mayor would spur huge cop exodus, rising crime straight out of ‘Gotham...

NYPost.com (Metro) 6/28 6:47A Tina Moore, Rich Calder

A New York City led by socialist Zohran Mamdani will mean a two-pronged breakdown of public safety -- crime spiraling out of control, and NYPD officers leaving en masse -- experts and veteran cops say.

Jury set to begin deliberating in Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial. Here's what to know

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 6/28 5:49A The Associated Press

A federal judge in New York City is expected to instruct jurors Monday morning before sending them off to decide the music mogul's fate.

Big Apple top cop slams exclusion of LGBT cops in uniform at NYC Pride March as ‘deeply offensive’

NYPost.com (Metro) 6/27 9:19A Tina Moore, Hannah Fierick, Davi

“It is deeply offensive that for the fifth year in a row, the NYPD’s gay officers’ action league is banned from fully participating in the New York City Pride March,” the top cop said.

Op-ed: A rare lease cycle convergence will reshape New York's real estate market

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 6/27 7:03A Erin Saven

Crain’s New York Business recently reported that leasing rates in April fell 26% from the previous month, while the overall office vacancy rate dropped to its lowest level since February 2021. Don’t let one quiet month distract from the bigger...