Vornado Realty Trust is ready to sell office towers and use the money to build apartments, a strategy shift likely to be cheered by those pushing for more housing around Penn Station. “People really want to live in New York. There is a major shortage of apartments in New York,” CEO Steven Roth said in […]
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After rising for the last decade, the number of green job opportunities in New York City declined between 2022 and 2023, from 19,476 to 15,501. The recent dip suggests that continued growth ‘is far from assured,’ a new report says. An electrical Industry training center in Long Island City, Queens in 2017. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography
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A month ago, the popular immersive art experience Meow Wolf announced plans to open a seventh permanent exhibition space at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. New York City joins two locations in Texas, one in Denver, the original in Santa Fe and another in Las Vegas, with another planned for Los Angeles. Because New York isn’t
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If you’ve followed these pages over the years, you already know Record Store Day is every damn day, and Brooklyn’s selection of record shops is so extensive it is effectively unmatched. But some of those excavation sites require a bit more digging than others to unearth, which is a loving labor, honestly, not entirely unlike
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Mayor Eric Adams’ administration released a long-awaited executive order late Tuesday giving federal immigration authorities office space on the Rikers Island jail complex, in a significant change to New York’s sanctuary laws. The order was signed by First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, rather than by Adams, who recused himself from the decision in an unusual
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images The Trump administration has implemented its agenda in rapid fashion since January, instituting steep cuts across the federal government and workforce and wielding its power over the nation’s cultural and educational institutions. But no other city has felt the brunt of Trump’s policies like New York as the president looks
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What weighs 80 pounds, relies on a daily diet of beef, deer and horse meat, and displays a distinctly snowy fur coat? The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name for the
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Fears of stagflation, the dreadful combination of high inflation and low growth, have gripped Wall Street since before “Liberation Day,” and now it seem to be the nation’s new best-case scenario. Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under former President Barack Obama from 2013 to
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In a radical collision of high art and leather-bound taboo, a cache of never-before-seen Robert Mapplethorpe S&M photographs has surfaced in New York City, bringing with it all the swagger and controversy that defined the photographer’s boundary-shattering legacy. Made public for the first time by the Kinsey Institute, the trove of test prints offers a
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images With his extreme new round of tariffs in effect as of Wednesday morning, President Trump’s trade war is at full throttle. Stock markets around the world keep plummeting, and chaos and uncertainty are the order of the day. but in order to gain a modicum clarity into the situation,
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