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Minority and women-owned business enterprises, or MWBEs, are more than just letters in an acronym. They represent the beating heart of our city’s economy. Dreamers and do-ers, strivers and go-getters, these are the businesses that make our city move. But they haven’t always been treated that way. For too long, poor policies, bad management, and […]

The city has chosen a new development team that will once again try to transform the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. Officials have tapped frequent real estate partners Joy Construction and Maddd Equities to spearhead the latest attempt at renovating the massive venue, according to the companies and a Tuesday morning announcement from the

Mount Sinai Beth Israel may still be battling for the right to shut down its Gramercy campus, but the health system is shedding some nearby buildings all the same. Mount Sinai has sold two sites on East 17th Street between First and Second avenues for about $34 million, according to deeds that appeared in the

The compensation data below highlights the highest-paid employees at a tax-exempt organization that filed a Form 990 for 2022. See the top earners at other New York health systems here. Notes: “Cash compensation” includes base compensation, bonus and incentive compensation, and other reportable compensation from the health system and related organizations. “Other compensation” includes nonreportable

Donald Trump has nominated a state court judge from Long Island to be U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a key prosecutor’s office that has aggressively brought cases involving malfeasance on Wall Street and beyond. Joseph Nocella Jr., a graduate of Columbia Law School, served as a district court judge in Nassau

Midtown-based Ataraxis is the latest pathology startup to attract backers using machine-learning diagnostics, raising $20 million in an early-stage venture capital round that recently closed, federal filings show. The city’s abundance of large health systems has produced a cottage industry of AI-centered medical diagnostics companies that are raking in money from investors. The company uses

Some New Yorkers will soon start to see their medical debt forgiven under a city-funded initiative, months after the program was set to go into effect. In the final days of 2024, the city inked an $18 million contract with Undue Medical Debt, a Long Island City-based nonprofit that buys medical debt from hospitals, health

BIRD FLU DEATH: A patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, marking the first death caused by the virus in a human, state health officials said Monday. The individual, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, became the first person in the U.S. to contract bird flu

The city’s public hospital system has agreed to resume contract talks with nearly 1,000 of its doctors this week in hopes of averting what could be the largest doctors’ strike in city history. New York City Health + Hospitals, its staffing affiliates Mount Sinai and Physician Affiliate Group of New York and the labor union

A steady stream of cars and trucks cruised under toll gantries at 60th Street and Lexington Avenue early Monday afternoon, undaunted by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new congestion toll on most motorists driving on to Manhattan’s busiest streets.  Aside from newly-installed signage warning drivers they’re about to cross into the MTA’s Congestion Relief Zone, the