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HOSPITAL LEADER DIES: Dr. Thomas Q. Morris, former president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, died on Dec. 28 at 91 years old, according to his obituary. Morris led the health system from 1985 to 1990, helping to grow New York-Presbyterian’s presence in Upper Manhattan and overseeing the 1988 opening of Allen Hospital in Inwood. […]

State officials are fending off a legal challenge that could delay the planned revamp of a popular Medicaid-funded home care program that is slated to begin next week. The Health Department has rejected legal claims that it rigged a bidding process to select the Georgia-based financial services firm Public Partnerships LLC to take over the

Northwell Health is embarking on a $19 million construction project to conduct adult bone marrow transplants at its 48-acre facility in Glen Oaks, Queens. The project, which includes refurbishing a roughly 9,000-square-foot space at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s main campus on the border of Queens and Long Island, will add a new 11-bed

If the latest round of airline delays over the holiday season has you feeling anxious about your next flight, the 2024 annual on-time performance list from Cirium, published on Jan. 2, may help. The aviation analytics firm analyzes more than 25 million data points from 600-plus sources each day to determine whether airlines are meeting

Nearly 1,000 doctors within the city’s public hospital system are planning to strike later this month amid what they say are stalled negotiations to improve their pay and benefits. The labor union Doctors Council SEIU delivered a 10-day strike notice on Thursday to four public hospitals, including Jacobi Medical Center, North Central Bronx Hospital, Queens

City-assigned trash haulers are now picking up refuse from businesses in Central Queens, a milestone in New York’s yearslong quest to tame its chaotic and unsafe private waste industry. As of Thursday, the city’s first commercial waste zone has been fully implemented in Queens Central — a zone that includes Jackson Heights, Corona, Elmhurst and

A trio of prominent real estate firms in the city is forging ahead with plans to convert a Times Square office building into a residential property, records show, and brokers are optimistic that tenants will flock to the new digs. Midtown-based Apollo Global Management, together with RXR and SL Green, filed plans with the Department

Leases Tech firm renews Midtown South lease Address: 136 Madison Ave., ManhattanLandlord: Williams EquitiesTenant: Impact.comLease size: 18,364 square feetAsset type: OfficeBrokers: CBRE’s Alex Leopold represented the tenant. Colliers’ Mac Roos, Andrew Roos, Michael Cohen and Jessica Verdi represented the landlord. Sales Bungalow Projects buys Bushwick industrial property Address: 194-200 Seigel St., BrooklynSeller: Koon-Yip Glass Creation

The city’s office market had a strong finish to 2024, providing plenty of reasons for optimism even as it has yet to fully recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic. Firms leased about 10.2 million square feet of space during the fourth quarter in Manhattan for its strongest fourth quarter since 2019, while the

SL Green CEO Marc Holliday will be awarded a $10 million cash bonus if he can bring a casino to Times Square, the company disclosed in a New Year’s Eve regulatory filing. The payout dangled before Holliday underscores the massive business opportunity that a casino presents for Manhattan’s largest office landlord. It also indicates the