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A city agency created to tamp down skyrocketing hospital costs found that local health systems are charging a wide range of prices for their services, fueling the city’s health care affordability crisis. The Office of Healthcare Accountability, a health-cost watchdog established under a city law passed in 2023, found that prices across local hospital systems […]

A federal judge ruled an anti-abortion group violated state and national law by sending its members into reproductive health clinics to block patients from receiving care. Southern District Judge Kenneth Karas said members of Red Rose Rescue broke laws that prohibit obstructing access to abortion centers when they occupied waiting rooms and barricaded doors at

FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS: New York could lose 82,000 health and social services jobs next year if the federal government passes large-scale cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to a new estimate from the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. House Republicans are considering a

A Prospect Lefferts Gardens building at the heart of a fierce gentrification battle over an ice cream shop has changed hands at a big loss. The building, 616-624 Flatbush Ave., a mixed-use site whose storefronts include the popular Scoops, which was rescued from eviction in 2024 after a neighborhood-wide effort to save it, has traded

The city Health Department is looking at how to preserve its “core” functions as it enters an expected federal funding downturn five years after the pandemic and new threats to support from Washington under President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress. The city is at the nadir of the “boom and bust” cycle of

Naftali Group, a real estate developer with footholds in New York and Miami, struck a deal to buy a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for more than $800 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Naftali Group entered a contract to purchase 800 Fifth Ave. from Spitzer Enterprises, the real estate

New York City’s pace of affordable housing construction could drop significantly over the coming decade due to a reduction in funding planned by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, according to a new analysis. Adams in January released a 10-Year Capital Strategy laying out the city’s expected spending on construction and repairs over the coming years —

Mayor Eric Adams sharpened his criticism of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, assailing his mayoral rival for his reluctance to speak to the media and his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The mayor, asked on Monday about his own paltry fundraising and bare-bones re-election campaign, suggested that reporters should be more focused on the ex-governor,

The state is relaxing the deadline for its overhaul of a popular Medicaid-funded home care program, giving users another month to register with a private company that’s set to take over the program by April 1. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is extending the registration period for people who receive home care services through the consumer

One of Manhattan’s oldest homes found a buyer last week as the number of luxury residential market sales slowed from earlier in the month. A historic townhouse on Bedford Street in the West Village joined 31 other units under contract last week, five fewer than the previous week, according to the latest Olshan luxury market