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SALMONELLA OUTBREAK: A Salmonella outbreak among backyard poultry flocks has infected seven people in six states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Monday. Salmonella can cause fever and gastrointestinal distress but usually resolves without treatment, according to the CDC. Humans can get it from contact with the mouth or eating food infected […]

State officials are planning to invest $62 million in nursing simulation centers on three public university campuses this year to remedy New York’s ailing nursing workforce. The investment will fund expansions of nursing simulation labs, which use computerized mannequins and virtual reality technology to replicate real-world clinical situations, at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Canton and Stony

State Attorney General Letitia James continued the march of state-led legal challenges to Trump administration cuts with a new lawsuit to block its efforts to restructure the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. James and attorneys general from 19 other states filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island seeking an immediate

A state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require hospitals to publish cost reports on their website, the latest in an ongoing struggle to boost price transparency for patients. Assembly Member David Weprin, a Richmond Hill Democrat, introduced a bill this month that would mandate hospitals post the institutional reports it submits to the

The National Women’s Soccer League has scored a long-term lease for its new Midtown headquarters, the sports organization and the building’s landlords announced Monday. The professional soccer league inked a 10-year deal to occupy 21,000 square feet in the 38-story Fred F. French Building at 551 Fifth Ave., nearly double the size of its existing

A hotly contested bill that would eliminate New York’s longstanding limits on street-vending licenses is gaining momentum in the City Council, heartening supporters in the immigrant-heavy vending community but stoking a new wave of anxiety among brick-and-mortar retailers. After appearing to slow-walk it for more than a year, the council on Tuesday will hold a

The skies over Newark Liberty International Airport Monday have been a congested mess, continuing last week’s widespread cancellations and delays. A persistent shortage of air traffic controllers to guide planes paired with reduced visibility thanks to thick fog are delaying arriving flights Monday by an average of four hours. Departures are seeing up to a

An embattled electric truck company investor has found a buyer for his Upper East Side apartment in a solid week for luxury residential real estate. David Hamamoto has sold his apartment on East 70th Street on the Upper East Side after listing it for $14.9 million. It was one of the 33 luxury Manhattan homes

A Chinese investor whose holdings have included stakes in WeWork and TikTok parent ByteDance is looking to exit a home on Billionaires Row. John Zhao, CEO and founder of Beijing-based private equity giant Hony Capital, has listed a three-bedroom condo unit at Central Park Tower for $17.5 million, according to an ad made public Friday.

Fewer travelers checked in last quarter at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the city’s biggest hotels, and the property’s owner could turn unprofitable this year due to a decline in overseas guests. “We’ve got tremendous uncertainty now for all the reasons we all know,” Thomas Baltimore, CEO of Park Hotels & Resorts, said