April 2025

The City Council has passed a package of bills that will help get sidewalk scaffolding sheds down quicker citywide and make those that remain potentially more attractive and safer. All we can say is hallelujah. These ubiquitous hunter-green sheds are an object lesson in good intentions gone wrong. They were mandated by Local Law 11

The City Council is pushing for a pay raise for emergency medical technicians in a bid to rescue an underpaid workforce that bleeds employees year after year. The Council included $50 million in additional baseline funding to boost the pay of roughly 3,900 city-employed EMTs and paramedics in its rebuttal to Mayor Eric Adams’ $114.5

The city’s pharma giants avoided much of the initial turbulence felt by the rest of the economy in the wake of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The S&P 500 cratered Thursday following news of Trump’s tariff plan, losing trillions in a matter of hours and closing nearly 5% lower, the worst decline since the height

Catholic Health on Long Island ended last year slightly in the red as hospitals brace for potential impacts of cuts to federal aid, a recent financial statement shows. The Rockville Centre-based health system brought in $3.7 billion in total revenue last year, up 7% from 2023, according to an unaudited financial statement released Monday. Catholic

Patients encountered billing issues, long wait times and medication disruptions after UnitedHealth went on a physician practice buying spree in the Hudson Valley, according to results of a survey released Thursday by Congressman Pat Ryan. The Democratic lawmaker, who represents parts of the Hudson Valley, launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum after getting complaints

MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH: Brooklyn College announced a new advanced certificate program in perinatal mental health on Thursday to prepare health care, behavioral health and early education professionals to serve mothers with mental illnesses. The year-long program, which includes 120 in-person clinical hours, is designed to help workers address mental illnesses during and after pregnancy as

SL Green Realty has snagged a celebrity hot spot for a Midtown tower. Nello, which shuttered its Upper East Side location last year after allegedly being on the hook for millions in back rent and utility bills, will relocate to a retail berth at 1350 Sixth Ave., a postwar high-rise at West 55th Street. The

The U.S. real estate industry has been eager for interest-rate relief in recent years. But not quite like this.  Government bond yields slumped Thursday — a welcome sight for everything from homebuilders to warehouse property owners. But it’s been spurred by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement this week, which threatens to boost costs and

A Borough Park-based developer is acquiring a Greenpoint apartment building that was once a Catholic school, records show. Abraham Posner, of the real estate management company Midwood Group, is in contract to take over the long-term leasehold of 100 Dupont St. from Williamsburg-based developer Watermark Capital Group, according to a memorandum of contract that appeared