It seems wherever Major League Soccer wants to build a stadium in New York, there’s a problem. In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, there were issues with removing a big chunk of the park. There were problems with a landlord in the Bronx. And, if approved, the league will have to grapple […]
Charter schools are keeping the pressure on Mayor de Blasio concerning their future and impact on New York City kids. Two weeks ago, Families for Excellent Schools hosted a rally that gathered about 10,000 charter school supporters according to crowd-controlling police officers. It called for city officials to address the issue […]
Alfredo Alegria worked six-day weeks for 2000 Homes Inc., a company that buys houses in disrepair, then renovates and flips them for a profit. Alfredo earned $120/day carrying, drilling and installing 40 pound sheetrock walls and flooring. One day, at the end of Alfredo’s shift, his boss told him he […]
Do-it-yourself and local manufacturing continues to innovate the New York City industrial sector while the industry experiences modest growth and stabilization after decades of steep declines. The six fellows of New York’s Next Top Makers incubator program announced last week exemplify what people in the maker movement see as the […]
The smell of fast food and greasy shirts is no longer an experience secluded to teenagers as the face of cashiers, disgruntled retail workers, and the pimply-faced teenager sweating over a fast food grill has changed. The amount of teenagers working on minimum wage has been reduced by more than […]
On Monday, the City Planning Commission approved the rezoning of Astoria Cove, booting it to the city council. The development stands to set the bar for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing policy in terms of how many affordable units are created, but also whether or not the city will require union labor for […]
The subway is in good service … until, maybe, another storm hits. While the MTA has poured millions into rebuilding the transit system after Sandy, there are few guarantees that the time-effective work over the last two years will make the city’s tunnels more resilient than before. Should another storm […]
Employers in New York are stealing from their employees while government agencies and regulators fight over how to spin it. In June the State Comptroller’s Office released a report on the NY Department of Labor’s backlog of complaints. The report stated that there is a backlog of 17,000 cases […]
NYU is once again prepared to take over the sinking Long Island College Hospital (LICH) after a labor dispute prompted it to jump ship last week, a university spokesperson announced Monday evening. But the New York State Nurse’s Association (NYSNA) is still not on board with the deal. All but […]
As regulators continue to churn out Dodd-Frank rules four years afterits passage, Wall Street banks continue to tack on thousands of compliancestaff and spend billions to restructure.JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon told employees that the bank had hired 4,000employees for compliance since 2012. Citibank said in July they willhave 30,000 […]