More than 400 nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where officials warned of a dire financial hole, have been cut off from health insurance coverage for six weeks, according to their union. Gov. Kathy Hochul provided $15 million in emergency state aid recently to the financially strapped 181-year-old community hospital that borders Fort Greene Park, […]

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A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations of solitary confinement reforms as the legislature weighs more than $4 billion in funding. The push for reforms comes amid renewed scrutiny of the correctional […]

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The most recent head of the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission is taking a new job with a ride-hailing tech company — just weeks after TLC branded it as “illegal.” David Do is jumping to Empower as senior vice president of government and regulatory affairs shortly after exiting the agency that oversees the city’s sprawling […]

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One of New York’s largest nonprofit homeless shelter service providers is charged with violating federal labor law by threatening to permanently replace IT workers on strike since November, according to new charges filed Wednesday.  United Auto Workers Local 2325 accuses CAMBA Inc. of failing to bargain in good faith, retaliating against workers and threatening to […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting praise for presenting a budget that estimates expenses more accurately than his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams. But his plan to balance that budget — which anticipates a Wall Street-driven boost to tax revenues, possible draw-downs of the city’s reserves and an across-the-board property tax hike — is getting panned. Both […]

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