Rush Hour 4 Movie: All About Donald Trump’s Passion Project
Does Donald Trump really care about Americans’ affordability concerns? The jury is out on that. But we d… More »
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May 2026
Vacant Affordable Apartments Won’t Go Back Into Lottery System — For Now
For an additional year, New Yorkers looking for a place to live can apply directly to vacated, affordable apartments — skipping the city’s lottery system, known as Housing Connect. Since May 2025, landlords and brokers have been able to publicly advertise empty affordable housing units — those that had been rented through the housing lottery
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FASNY APPLAUDS ASSEMBLY PASSAGE OF LANDMARK BILL QUADRUPLING VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND EMS TAX CREDIT
Major Recruitment and Retention Measure Raises State Tax Credit from $200 to $800 for First Time in 20 Years The Firefighters Association of the State of New York (FASNY) today applauded the New York State Assembly for passing landmark legislation to quadruple the state’s volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker income tax credit from $200 to
Why a Single 5.51-Carat Diamond Commanded $17.3 Million in Geneva
There are high-quality diamonds, and then there are the diamonds that exist in a category so singular that the usual vocabulary of the trade barely applies. The fancy, vivid blue-green Ocean Dream, which sold yesterday (May 13) in Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva for $17.3 million, is one of the latter. This 5.51-carat triangular-cut
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NADA New York Opens With Fewer Early Sales But Plenty of Potential
With Frieze New York opening just a few blocks away, Future Fair close by and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in the same building, NADA opened in good company. At 10 a.m. on May 13, it welcomed VIP guests, still fresh with early-day curiosity, to take a quick first look before what would be,
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Meet the Collector: How ArtPhilly Founder Katherine Sachs Became a Convener
We’re sitting together at Joy Cafe in the Spring Garden neighborhood with birds chirping, the condenser unit hums and bits of conversations from other diners drift by. We drink pressed juice and smoothies and talk about ArtPhilly, her organization focused on amplifying artistic voices in the city, and its latest endeavor, a biennial titled “What
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Rikers Official Forced Out Under Adams Returns to Oversee Discipline
Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city jail system — a move cheered by correction officer unions that long viewed her as overly aggressive. More than four years later, that same investigator, Sarena Townsend, is returning to the Department
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4 Wild Details From the New York Times Jack Schlossberg Report
Next month, voters will get to cast their vote in the highly contested race to succeed veteran Democrat Jerry Nadler in the More »
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Communication Is a Civil Right — And Workers Know It Too
Last June, something rare happened in Albany. In a time of deep division, the New York State Assembly came together unanimously around a simple idea: every person deserves a way to communicate. The Communication Bill of Rights for People with Disabilities (A7363C) was not controversial when lawmakers listened to the people most affected. Families, self-advocates,
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Kevin Warsh Now Gets to Prove He Isn’t Donald Trump’s ‘Sock Puppet’
Jay Powell is out; Kevin Warsh is in. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Powell’s time running the central bank will expire on Friday. For the outgoing Fed chair, it will mark the conclusion of years of abuse by the president of the Un… More »
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