By MSN NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With subway ridership down, businesses underground and near transit stops are suffering. A few weeks ago Turnstyle Underground Market re-opened at Columbus Circle. It was once a busy spot. “It’s usually hopping,” customer Lynne Wu told CBS2’s Alice Gainer. However, now 20 of the market’s 39 businesses are closed. “It’s like […]
The four companies known as Big Tech — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — now have more than 22,000 employees in the city, with thousands added just this year.
By Matthew Haag, NY Times Facebook has just leased enough new office space in Manhattan to nearly triple its current local workforce, including at one of the city’s most iconic buildings, the 107-year-old former main post office complex near Pennsylvania Station. Apple, which set up its first office in New York a decade ago, is […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Thousands more young children living in public housing were potentially exposed to lead poisoning than originally thought, officials revealed Thursday. The city’s public housing authority has determined that the number of apartments believed contaminated with lead paint that house children under age 6 is triple the number it previously […]
Both landlord and tenant advocates say the solution is a tenant bailout in the form of a rental assistance voucher program.
Landlord Surya Hariprasad sits outside her Bronx building, Oct. 15, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY Surya Davie Hariprasad scrounged to pay the mortgage of her Bronx home after she, her daughter and their only tenant upstairs were stricken with coronavirus in March. For two months, nobody in their two-family house could work […]
Now Hiring: Emergency Snow Laborers for Winter Season Snow Laborers Crucial in Clearing Snow and Ice After Big Winter Storms; New for this Season: Advance Online Registration Required The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that registration is now open for those interested in working as Emergency Snow Laborers for the upcoming […]
Using Spanish and English, street signs remind people to participate in the 2020 US Census. – Phoenix, Ariz. / US – October 1, 2020 (Shutterstock) A recent Supreme Court decision allowed the Trump Administration to change the Census 2020 deadline to Thursday Oct. 15. Cutting the response time for New York City to TOMORROW, OCT. […]
By Eileen Grench, THE CITY A bill that would curb the secretive collecting of kids’ DNA by cops is set to hit the City Council Thursday. The measure aims to “prohibit any member of the NYPD from collecting a DNA sample from a minor prior to the lawful arrest of such minor without the consent […]
David and Joyce Dinkins attend 2011 US Open opening night ceremonies at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2011 in Flushing, New York. – FLUSHING, NY – AUGUST 29 (Shutterstock) By Eyewitness News NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The wife of former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has passed […]
Photo: Corona, Queens residents pick up fresh vegetables from a food bank organized by Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz’s office and World Central Kitchen, Aug. 26, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Josefa Velasquez, THE CITY Nearly six months after COVID-19’s spread caused a statewide shutdown, life in New York City is showing signs of slowly reverting back […]
New Yorkers riding subway with masks after the lockdown, New York City, USA. – Sept 05, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Shant Shahrigian, NY Daily News Clusters of coronavirus in Brooklyn and Queens have raised the city’s infection rate to an alarming new level, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday, adding that the city will respond with strict […]