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City Council leaders are proposing that the city make targeted investments in vaccine programs and disease surveillance efforts that stand to be decimated by President Donald Trump’s budget cuts. Speaker Adrienne Adams, Finance Chair Justin Brannan and Governmental Operations Chair Lincoln Restler released a plan Wednesday to invest $10 million into public health programs, including […]

George Plimpton’s publishing office and party pad, where literature and being lit often went hand in hand, is looking for a taker. The family of the late co-founder and editor of The Paris Review has listed the 4,700-square-foot Upper East Side duplex for $5.3 million, according to an ad that appeared Tuesday. A well-worn stop

Luxury developer Harry Macklowe has sold a historic Midtown literary center building for half of what he bought it for seven years ago, records show. The real estate mogul, who founded his eponymous firm Macklowe Properties in the 1960s, offloaded 17 E. 47th St. for $7.9 million — a whopping $8.6 million less than the

Andrew Cuomo’s housing plan calls for building apartments near houses of worship, transit stations and in industrial areas. The former governor singled out one type of neighborhood, however, where he would not pursue any ambitious development agenda: low-density areas. Cuomo’s plan points to the recently enacted City of Yes housing reforms, which promise to build

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Crain’s released its latest list of the largest minority-owned businesses in the New York area this week, and New Jersey-based packaging company Sigma Plastics Group claimed the top spot once again. The largest firm in the city proper was Midtown-based staffing agency Pride Global. The list is based on 2024 revenue as self-reported by the

Nonprofit leaders like myself dedicate ourselves to addressing social inequities and supporting those in need. Yet when it comes to temporary disability insurance (TDI) in New York, our sector faces a critical blind spot that contradicts our very mission. TDI is New York’s paid medical leave program that workers rely on when they are navigating

In the late 1980s, during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Barbara Hughes was working as a chef in a Lower Manhattan restaurant and struggling to contain her anger over the many friends she was losing to the disease. Her life changed one shift when a cook invited her to a

New York’s nonprofit hospital sector receives tax breaks worth more than $2 billion each year, with the expectation that they’ll provide free services and invest in their communities. But dozens are falling short on community benefit spending, a new report shows. More than 40% of the nonprofit hospitals in New York spent less on community

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers could lose health coverage if Congressional Republicans move forward with a proposal to add work requirements under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Between 743,000 and 846,000 residents across the state could lose coverage next year if the plan – which was part of a 50-page list of potential