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EMERGENCY ROOM UPGRADE: NYU Langone is planning to add a CT scanner to the emergency room on its Manhattan campus to accommodate growth in emergency room visits, according to a certificate-of-need application it filed with the state Department of Health last week. The hospital, located at 550 E. First Ave., has seen an uptick in […]

Compass is taking the old concept of whisper listings—homes available for sale to those in-the-know without their hitting the public market—to a whole new level, even as industry bigwigs are loudly opposed. A curated, Compass-brokers-only website that potentially allows the brokerage to keep the buyer- and seller-side brokers’ fees in-house, the program is intended to

The city has a higher share of vacant life science space than any other part of the country due to a slowdown in venture capital funding, exposing challenges in the local industry that could worsen as the federal government plans cuts to research funding. More than 40% of the city’s life science lab and office

A Hudson Yards landlord and onetime street cart mogul is parting ways with a Garment District industrial building, city records show. George Makkos, who owns a string of mixed-use properties on Ninth Avenue near Hudson Yards, is in contract to sell 349 W. 37th St. through the entity M & T Pretzel Inc., according to

Business groups are mobilizing behind Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to change the state’s evidence-sharing laws in order to prevent criminal cases from being dropped. The proposal, opposed by public defenders and some civil rights groups, is being viewed with skepticism by Albany lawmakers as they negotiate with Hochul before an April 1 deadline to include

The 71-story, 1.2 million-square foot tower at 40 Wall St. has a growing list of problems. Its vacancy rate has risen to 25%. The building is no longer producing enough cash to pay the mortgage that comes due soon. And the cost of owning the tower is poised to soar thanks to a massive increase

Michael Fux, founder of the sleep products company Comfort Revolution, has finally found a buyer for his Midtown condo. Though the bedding magnate asked $18 million for the three-bedroom penthouse on East 58th Street in 2023, he sold it for 18% less, at $14.7 million.   Fux originally bought the penthouse for $13 million in 2005

Two educational unions sued the Trump administration over its withholding of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, calling the move an illegal attempt to limit academic independence and free speech on campus. The lawsuit by the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, filed Tuesday in New York, comes

The Mayo Clinic is exiting a federal program that covers medical care for people sickened from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to two patients and an organization that advocates for 9/11 responders and survivors. The cancer patients had been getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona, for years through

A Hudson Square office building is in contract to be scooped up by Midtown-based real estate firm Avdoo & Partners, records show. Shlomi Avdoo, founder and CEO of the 10-year-old company, signed the March 21 memorandum of contract to acquire the 6-story property at 185 Varick St., according to documents that appeared in the city