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IMMIGRANT HEALTH: Immigrant New Yorkers have a higher life expectancy compared to city residents born in the U.S., according to data released last week by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Foreign-born city residents had an average lifespan of 83.5 years, compared to 79.9 years among U.S.-born residents. Immigrant communities were less likely […]

The payroll processing company that took over a popular state-funded home care program issued paychecks to a fraction of caregivers in its first two weeks of operation. Public Partnerships LLC, a Georgia-based company that cuts paychecks and provides benefits to home care workers through the consumer-directed personal assistance program, became the state’s sole payroll processing

The Trump administration’s hostile stance on Canada is taking a toll on New York City tourism as Canadian travelers cancel tours, hotel stays and flights. The roughly 1 million Canadians who visited New York City last year contributed an estimated $600 million to the local economy — making them the second-largest group of foreign tourists

The pandemic widened a gap in services for gender-nonconforming youth that Jayson “J.D.” Miller has noticed all their life. Miller is a social worker who leads a growing child and family therapy clinic for underserved LGBTQ youth up to age 21 at the New York Foundling, one of only a handful of its kind in

A quintessential American apparel retailer is being displaced from its longtime home in Herald Square by the Irish multinational company Primark, records show. Old Navy, which opened at 150 W. 34th St. in 1999, will close its 4-level store this summer, and lay off 95 of its employees to make way for the incoming tenant,

The latest attempt to solve the city’s chronically late payments to its nonprofit contractors is coming courtesy of City Council leaders, who proposed a package of bills and new spending on Thursday that they say will ease the crisis. The city relies on nonprofits to handle crucial work like homeless services, day care and mental

A Manhattan penthouse that belonged to a carrot mogul who harvested a huge windfall with the sale of his farm to a buyout firm has found a taker. The late Andre Radandt’s apartment, a 3,700-square-foot condo with a 1,900-square-foot terrace atop a tower in the Meatpacking District, traded for $18 million, according to a deed

Leases Commercial cleaning business expands in Garment District Address: 318 W. 39th St., ManhattanLandlord: GFP Real EstateTenant: First Quality MaintenanceLease size: 6,000 square feetAsset type: OfficeBrokers: GFP Real Estate’s Matthew Mandell represented both the landlord and the tenant. Sales Westchester investor acquires storefront co-op near Union Square Address: 85 Fifth Ave., ManhattanSeller: SL Green Realty Corp.Buyer:

The federal judge who is set to decide the fate of congestion pricing late Thursday dismissed key arguments in four lawsuits that have sought to kill the tolling program.   The judge, Lewis Liman, rejected claims from the New York Trucking Association, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, and two coalitions of New

For half a century, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal has languished — its piers rotting, its potential unrealized — while the Port Authority focused its resources elsewhere. That changed last spring when the city struck a pivotal deal: New York gained control of this underused waterfront land in exchange for property on Staten Island, unlocking an