Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will roll out Friday a new compliance check to make sure that employers are following the city’s revamped paid time off law.  Going forward, if an employer’s payroll records show that fewer than 50% of employees have used any paid time off in the […]

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A Manhattan appeals court on Thursday put on hold one of NYCHA’s most ambitious and controversial projects, its plan to demolish and replace 2,000 units of public housing in the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses. Supreme Court Justice David Cohen last month rejected a demand to halt the project by a group of tenants, joined by […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a plan Thursday to end nearly five years of emergency orders that have suspended basic jail rules at Rikers Island. But some reforms — including limits on solitary confinement — won’t take effect for nearly a year, and others require court approval.  The action plan lays out how the city will […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into office on a wave of progressive promises, including pledges to boost funding for parks and public libraries.  But his first major spending plan falls short on both fronts, raising early questions about when — or whether — those campaign commitments will materialize. The preliminary budget released Tuesday keeps funding for […]

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Residents in a public housing development in Yorkville are facing a pivotal choice: remain under current federal funding known as Section 9, or enter into a new arrangement to help secure the billions of dollars the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) needs in repairs. Stanley Isaacs Houses is the first development in Manhattan to […]

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