January 2025

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is leaning into the low-tech upgrade of lining subway platforms with metal barriers to address one of the system’s most intractable problems: the dozens of people each year who are struck by trains after being pushed or falling onto tracks. Transit officials intend to install waist-high barriers along platforms — with

New York State is spending millions of dollars to prepare counties for new lead paint rules that are set to take effect later this year. The state Department of Health has distributed $16 million so far to help counties outside the five boroughs lay the groundwork for a new state registry of older rental buildings

HOSPITAL LEADER DIES: Dr. Thomas Q. Morris, former president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, died on Dec. 28 at 91 years old, according to his obituary. Morris led the health system from 1985 to 1990, helping to grow New York-Presbyterian’s presence in Upper Manhattan and overseeing the 1988 opening of Allen Hospital in Inwood.

State officials are fending off a legal challenge that could delay the planned revamp of a popular Medicaid-funded home care program that is slated to begin next week. The Health Department has rejected legal claims that it rigged a bidding process to select the Georgia-based financial services firm Public Partnerships LLC to take over the

Northwell Health is embarking on a $19 million construction project to conduct adult bone marrow transplants at its 48-acre facility in Glen Oaks, Queens. The project, which includes refurbishing a roughly 9,000-square-foot space at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s main campus on the border of Queens and Long Island, will add a new 11-bed