Members of the nation’s largest legislative staff union, the Association of Legislative Employees (ALE), rallied on the steps of City Hall alongside elected officials and labor unions on Sept.
It’s Electric, a national leader in curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging, announced Tuesday that New York City has awarded it an exclusive contract to install and build out a permanent EV charging network across all…
Police in Port Chester, a heavily immigrant community, appear to have turned over dozens of people to ICE, including some with no criminal charges.
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Adoption of artificial intelligence is soaring in New York City, but the great AI jobs apocalypse is nowhere in sight — except in entry-level tech positions, where demand has plummeted, closing off a key avenue to…
Amazon is constantly touting its e-quad deliveries — but now the company is threatening to pull its bikes off the streets if it can't get its way.
Albany steered $97.2 million to 206 local projects during the first half of 2026 in the newest batch of state....
Municipal Credit Union (MCU) has signed a lease to open a new retail branch in Jamaica, Queens, Commercial Observer has learned.
Construction is famously labor intensive: direct labor makes up close to 50% of the cost of constructing a new single-family home in the US, compared to around 6 to 8% of the cost of manufacturing a car.
Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid and Medicaid, the South Asian Council for…
This Dumbo, Brooklyn, office property is about to light up with a new tenant.
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by Adam Daly, amNY New York City plans to incorporate a racial equity review into future budget planning under its first citywide racial equity plan, released last week by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
Summer vacations are winding down with the last hurrah of the Labor Day weekend and students are headed into another school year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is marking Labor Day by announcing a new City Hall office aimed at helping New Yorkers organize at work, while directing several city agencies to more aggressively pursue labor violations —…
Workers without unions will soon be able to leverage the resources of City Hall to help organize and have a voice on the job.
New York City will end Monday’s West Indian Day Parade promptly on Labor Day Monday afternoon — a cutoff officials say is aimed at preventing the late-day gun violence that marred last year’s celebration.
A rookie transit worker was fatally struck by a D train late Thursday night in The Bronx while setting up flags to warn of a construction project ahead, city and union officials said.
Dozens of companies, big and small, across the five boroughs have made New York City Comptroller Mark Levine’s second-annual list of city businesses committing the most labor violations, released ahead of Labor Day.
A renter looking for a spacious, stylish pad who doesn't have budget worries would surely find the upper triplex in this 1890s Crown Heights brownstone alluring.
After Labor Day weekend, New York City will no longer allow piles of black trash bags to sit on street curbs — attracting rats and befouling sidewalks — outside residential buildings with up to nine units.
Organized labor in New York City has been mightily active so far this decade, and the first half of 2026 was no exception.
Queens lawmakers are joining Resorts World’s push, saying the casino expansion could otherwise collapse.
As Labor Day approaches, the MTA on Wednesday advised transit riders to prepare for service shakeups over the coming three-day weekend.
New York Focus had spotlighted the T-Mobile contract, which cost the city $3.5 million a month to equip Chromebooks with cell service.
New York City plans to incorporate a racial equity review into future budget planning under its first citywide racial equity plan, released Tuesday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Midwood Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Bed Stuy, and Prospect Heights.
A record amount of outside spending from deep-pocketed donors flooded the 2025 citywide elections, but the windfall wasn’t always successful in getting candidates elected or defeated, a new analysis by the city’s…
Like most states, New York doesn't have any enforceable heat protections for outdoor workers.