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Jacob Chetrit, a partner in one of New York’s largest real estate families, has passed away. He was 69, according to an employee at Chetrit Group who declined to say where he died or the cause.  Jacob worked alongside brothers Joseph, Meyer and Juda Chetrit at a firm that owned or owns the Sony Building […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing rail improvements she says would speed up Hudson Valley commutes into the city by as much as 30 minutes round trip on Metro-North’s Hudson line, getting travelers from the line’s farthest reaches into the city in under 90 minutes. The plan calls for a bundle of rail infrastructure improvements between

Sales Cybersecurity firm grabs West Chelsea site Address: 548 W. 22nd St., ManhattanSeller: Atlas Capital GroupBuyer: FortinetSale price: $50.5 millionAsset type: OfficeBroker: Serhant’s Bernadette Brennan represented both the seller and the buyer. National shipping site landlord snaps up Maspeth warehouse Address: 49-15 Maspeth Ave., QueensSeller: XPO Logistics FreightBuyer: TerrenoSale price: $50.1 millionAsset type: Industrial Mott

A mixed-use affordable housing project in Mott Haven has traded hands for almost $46 million, adding to the flurry of activity in the trendy South Bronx neighborhood. Real estate firm RJ Block has purchased the development known as Morris Court from a limited liability company for about $45.8 million, according to sources familiar with the

Local oncologists and cancer experts say that a federal warning linking even moderate alcohol consumption to increased risk of cancer could prompt more public health measures to reduce the disease. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday linking alcohol to seven types of cancers, including breast, colorectum, esophagus, liver, mouth, throat and voice

RADIATION INSTALLATION: Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks, Queens, is installing a new high-dose rate enclosure for the treatment of certain types of cancer with radiation. The project will renovate 443 square feet of space in the radiation medicine department on the first floor of one of the hospital’s extension clinics, according to

Since the pandemic, labor shortages in the U.S. remain. However, companies are hiring new employees at a rate that outpaces the quit rate. This dynamic, referred to as the “great reshuffle” indicates that people and across the nation are searching for and landing better jobs with different employers and in new industries. This is especially

Congestion pricing is finally here. After a decades-long, political and bureaucratic journey, most motorists traveling into Manhattan south of 60th Street will be charged a new toll geared at reducing street-clogging traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Just after midnight on Sunday morning, Jan. 5, the hotly contested tolls will take effect. Cameras latched to toll

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness in the wake of a spate of violence in the subway. In a statement Friday ahead of the new legislative session, Hochul decried a recent parade of “horrific incidents” in the transit system and

Mayor Eric Adams is replacing the head of a city office that works with nonprofit organizations, a shakeup that comes as nonprofits complain that the city is threatening their livelihoods by failing to improve a pattern of late contract payments. Michael Sedillo, currently an advisor to First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, is taking over as