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HEALTH COVERAGE: Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Monday to make sure city employees don’t experience lapses in health care coverage when they transfer from one agency to another. The law requires city agencies to expedite the city-administered health insurance enrollment process when employees transfer and mandates that agencies offer detailed information to their workers about […]

The effects of the pandemic-era nursing shortage continue to reverberate across New York’s workforce pipeline. Graduation rates among registered nurses declined slightly between 2021 and 2023 even as applications to degree programs ticked upward, according to new data from the Center for Healthcare Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany. The data, collected through surveys with education

Federal money has started flowing to the city’s public hospital system to prepare for a potential bird flu outbreak among humans as the virus continues to impact dairy cow herds and bird flocks across the U.S. New York City Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is set to receive $2 million from the federal government to develop tools

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration plans to study the city’s commercial real estate industry to determine whether minority- and women-owned developers face any particular hurdles and could use a boost from city contracts. The city’s Economic Development Corp. said Monday that it has chosen the consulting firm MGT Solutions to carry out the “disparity study,” which

Johnson & Johnson agreed to acquire Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc., a company focused on treatments for central nervous system disorders, for about $14.6 billion. J&J will pay $132 a share, the company said in a statement. That’s 39% above the closing price on Friday. Bloomberg earlier reported a deal was in the works. Shares of Intra-Cellular

An heir to a liquor fortune may have something to toast if a sale goes according to plan. Affordable housing developer Eli Bronfman, whose family controlled the Seagram Co. for decades, has listed his SoHo penthouse for $45 million, a hefty 25% premium over the $36 million he paid just three years ago, according to

This is the first of a two-part series from Green Market Report regarding allegations of a toxic work culture and other systemic problems at Curaleaf Holdings.  The largest and most valuable cannabis company in the world allegedly has a “toxic” and “hostile” work culture that fosters sexism, racism and nepotism. That’s according to a trio

Some city doctors have reached a tentative deal to boost their pay, averting what could have been the largest physician walkout in the city’s history. The deal, announced by Doctors Council SEIU, includes higher pay, bonuses based on years of service and a $12 million compensation pool for future market rate adjustments over the course

The start of congestion pricing has the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hitting the gas on the long-anticipated expansion of the Second Avenue subway Q line to Harlem. The agency plans to award a $100 million, four-year contract to design, engineer and build new tunnels and the shell of the new 125th Street station, one of three

A bakery that has been churning out breads, cookies and cakes on the Upper West Side for 25 years is at risk of eviction, court records show. Silver Moon Bakery, which opened at 2740 Broadway in November 2000, has allegedly overstayed its lease expiration and owes more than $200,000 in rent and other fees after