Hurricane Sandy struck New York City in 2012, knocking out power and leaving residents and storeowners desperate to access digital data. One New Yorker saw how access varied among users, and created a service that would allow local businesses to search for available data sources. Aileen Gemma Smith, founder and […]
The ride-hail company Uber announced last week that it will be adding a public transportation option to its app in New York City, which may be an attempt to repair its tense and lawsuit ridden relationship with City Hall. The Uber app’s new tab will display nearby subway and commuter-rail […]
Boro-Wide Recycling is a Queens based private trash hauling company, and just in case anyone forgets the fact, its bright green and orange liveried trucks are outfitted with stickers declaring them kings of the borough. Mike Cristina has run the family business since it opened in 1993, and his drivers […]
Susannah Koteen may be the owner of Lido Harlem Restaurant but on a busy Monday afternoon, she finds herself trying to supervise her 15-person staff while taking reservations over the phone—Koteen says keeping up with the business has become tough over the past few months and it’s all due to […]
On a Friday morning the Independent Driver’s Guild facility in Bushwick is bustling with activity. Future drivers are taking a mandatory class to get their Taxi and Limousine Commission licenses, current drivers are getting advice from senior members of the guild on how to handle their labor issues and overseeing […]
By Jeffery Harrell When Paquasia Haynesworth was fired from her job at a Brooklyn McDonalds in June, she was completely blindsided. She says her manager had never come to her with problems before. “I was practically begging for her to give me a day or two more,” said Haynesworth. “I […]
Two years after Cornell Tech and The City University of New York established a program to bring more women into tech companies in New York, the number of female CUNY students who declared computer science as their major has risen by 27%. The program, called WiTNY: Women in Technology New […]
Almost one-quarter of H-1B visa applications in New York City were denied in the first half of the year, four times the rate in the same period of 2016 under the Obama Administration. The increase in the city to 24.8% from 6.2% in 2016 even outpaced the tripling of denial […]
After an early September City Council hearing it’s still unclear if the TLC will reverse course on its ride-hail advertising ban or if the council will pass a law to overrule the agency. But ride-hail advocates say they’ll continue to fight until their drivers have the right to advertise on […]
Vicki Been, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development and former Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Preservation, speaks at a Crain’s Business Breakfast Forum on Sept. 10 (Megan Conn) Three years after its introduction, a city program aimed at incentivizing real estate developers to build more affordable apartments […]
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