January 2025

Congestion pricing is off to a solid start, traffic data shows

Preliminary traffic data is giving promising if occasionally mixed signals for the early days of congestion pricing’s impact on Manhattan’s busiest streets, with travel times down at Hudson River crossings but speeds within the zone slightly slower at key times of day year over year. Four days after the toll’s launch, New Yorkers are waiting […]

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Defends Elon Musk, Predicting ‘Overwhelming Success of DOGE’

Linda Yaccarino may have one of the most difficult jobs in Silicon Valley. As the CEO of Elon Musk’s X Corp, the former NBCUniversal executive is grappling with two equally challenging tasks: saving the social media platform’s declining business and making her boss look good. During an onstage interview at CES in Las Vegas this

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Attorney General raises alarms about widespread fraud in Medicaid transit industry

Attorney General Letitia James is cracking down on what she says is widespread fraud in the Medicaid transportation industry. James put New York’s entire Medicaid transportation sector on notice Wednesday after state investigators alleged that 54 transportation companies stole taxpayer dollars. State prosecutors issued cease-and-desist orders to the companies, five of which are located in

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Opinion: NYC Create in Place & Safeguarding Our Creative Capital

“If the city is to remain a global leader in arts and culture, it must rethink its approach to helping cultural organizations and creative businesses thrive.” Adi Talwar Performers in the Mazarte Dance Company practice their routine in Central Park in December 2020. CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice

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Capturing Balanchine’s Ghost: An Interview With Dancer and Choreographer Emily Coates

Tomorrow (January 9), dancer and choreographer Emily Coates will present her new genre-defying iterative performance about George Balanchine at the inaugural Dance Out East festival at The Church in Sag Harbor. From there, it will move to the 2025 Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival at the Guggenheim on Sunday, January 12.  The Scattering

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City Charter Changes Around Housing May Be in Store for 2025

Mayor Eric Adams’ newly appointed Charter Revision Commission met Tuesday, the first in a series of meetings to explore potential changes to city government’s rules and procedures for housing and land use decisions. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The mayor’s latest Charter Revision Commission kicked off Tuesday, holding the first in a series of meetings to

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On Politics: In city lease scandal, cronyism comes back to bite Adams again

The corruption clouds around Mayor Eric Adams, it seems, can only thicken. In an explosive new lawsuit, a real estate firm is accusing the brokerage Cushman & Wakefield of conspiring with high-level officials in the Adams administration to put lucrative city leases in the hands of a single broker with ties to the mayor’s inner

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On Politics: In city lease scandal, cronyism comes back to bite Adams again

The corruption clouds around Mayor Eric Adams, it seems, can only thicken. In an explosive new lawsuit, a real estate firm is accusing the brokerage Cushman & Wakefield of conspiring with high-level officials in the Adams administration to put lucrative city leases in the hands of a single broker with ties to the mayor’s inner

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Mayor Eric Adams to Deliver ‘State of the City’ as Federal Corruption Trial, Primary Election Loom

Mayor Eric Adams will present his fourth State of the City speech Thursday at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, attempting to highlight his administration’s wins even as he faces a federal corruption trial.  As he’s teased over the last few weeks, Adams is expected to focus on public safety and housing affordability, as he

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