The James Dolan glare is a signature look of supreme disappointment. During bleak moments, he’ll sit slumped in a chair along the baseline at Madison Square Garden, the arena he owns, disapprovingly watching the New York Knicks, the team he owns. The bearded face, scowling and sullen-eyed — the g… More »
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One afternoon in Morningside Heights, toward the end of March, about a hundred socially conscious investors were getting fidgety. They’d convened in a blocky limestone building on Riverside Drive for the biannual conference of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of “fai… More »
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Eight years after New York State launched a high-profile task force to confront maternal deaths and racial disparities in childbirth outcomes, state auditors say health officials are only now making “significant” progress implementing reforms — even as Black women continue dying at disproportionately high rates. For Bruce McIntyre, whose longtime partner Amber Isaac died during
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You get home, flick your lights on, run your air conditioner, charge your phone. As of this month, there’s a chance the electricity you’re using is generated from dams in Quebec, Canada, and arrived at your apartment via a line that snakes more than 330 miles long. A massive transmission line called the Champlain Hudson
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Scott Pelley, the longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, was fired on Tuesday, a day after confronting Nick Bilton, the program’s new leader, in spectacularly aggressive fashion in front of all their colleagues. Pelley met with Bilton and Bari Weiss on Tuesday afternoon, per a source familia… More »
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Some of the most ambitious businesses in Brooklyn will vie for almost half a million dollars in funding this fall. The Brooklyn Pitch Competition this week invited local entrepreneurs to apply for the chance to compete for nearly half a million dollars in unrestricted funding to accelerate growth. The initiative is a product of the
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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Applications opened Tuesday for the inaugural year of New York City’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds. Part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability campaign for free universal childcare, 2-K will for the first time in the city’s history offer free care for 2-year-olds
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Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut during the 1980s, I was no stranger to the venomous way wealth was portrayed in fiction and in films. Spouses who detested one another, siblings who’d stopped speaking, substance abuse issues a-go-go, nannies groomed for second wifedom, status symbol pets. Writers assigned to me in high school like Updike and
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New Yorkers deserve honest discussion and leadership when it comes to policies that keep their lives affordable and ensure that they’re paying the right price at the register. That’s why it is critical to set the record straight about digital shelf labels (DSLs) – a retail technology that is improving the customer experience and making workers’ jobs
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The highly-watched race to dethrone five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins became the center of a new controversy this week as the presumptive Democratic nominee More »
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