ENTERTAINMENT
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NYC’s billion-dollar businesses issue a high-stakes economic alert
A major local business coalition representing some of NYC’s largest employers said the city’s economic engine could sputter to a halt if City Hall moves forward with tax increases to help close a $5.6 billion budget deficit. A new report from the Partnership for New York City, released on Monday, showed that its 300-plus member companies are currently the city’s…
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Judge keeps city plan to open East Village homeless intake center on ice in ‘uncommon’ move to push hearing
A Manhattan judge pushed back a hearing this week that would have provided at least a temporary answer on whether the city can open a homeless intake center in the East Village after local residents filed suit to stop it — an “uncommon” move in cases like these, Legal Aid attorneys say. State Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kaus now will not…
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DOI report slams state laws that hinder ability to oversee child welfare system, even in cases of youngsters’ deaths
The city Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report on Tuesday calling for changes to state laws that it said significantly limit its ability to oversee New York City’s child welfare system — including more than a dozen cases in which youngsters had died. The report said that the current laws block many of the agency’s attempts to access certain…
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Ben Keller is redefining public art in New York City
In recent months, at the top of the 2nd Ave subway stop, there was a beautiful portrait of a pair of swans. A few blocks away on the Lower East Side, The Ridge Hotel greeted guests with a beautiful mural of a Middle Eastern Woman. In Bushwick, commuters have paused to look at the portrait that honors the late Iryna…
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Appeals court rules people can’t sue over forced abortion under the Adult Survivors Act
Unauthorized abortions are not a type of sexual abuse a person can sue over under New York’s lookback window for sexual assault, a state appeals court said Tuesday in a novel ruling. The Appellate Division, First Department ruled against Yolanda Murray, a woman whose 2023 Adult Survivors Act suit alleged a Planned Parenthood physician gave her an abortion she didn’t…
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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ comes and goes
The new Broadway revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” gets a lot right. Scene by scene, it often captures the richness of August Wilson’s writing. But it never quite builds into a fully satisfying whole, and several key performances remain a work in progress. Among the 10 plays that make up Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, this 1910s-set drama stands as…
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EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani administration powers forward with solar panel push in NYC schools
The Mamdani administration is celebrating a sweeping effort to install solar panels across New York City’s public school system on Thursday with the completion of the city’s 130th installation at Marie Curie High School in the Bronx. The project builds on the city’s ongoing NYC Solar Schools Program, which to date has helped generate 27.5 megawatts of renewable energy capacity…
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Battery Park City Authority tells court it can’t move forward with Lower Manhattan flood protection work without condo access
The state authority behind a $2 billion Lower Manhattan flood resiliency project says a condo owner’s refusal to let it into their building could derail the coastal flood risk management system it’s working to build along the southern tip of Manhattan. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) took Cove Club Condominium to court last week, arguing that if a judge…
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Mamdani shrugs off Trump attack that he will ‘ruin’ NYC, defends tax on luxury second homes
A proposal to tax some of New York City’s priciest part-time homes is giving Mayor Zohran Mamdani another fiscal win with Gov. Kathy Hochul — but a minor setback in his chummy relationship with President Donald Trump. This week, Hochul said she wants state lawmakers to let the city impose a surcharge on non-primary residences valued at more than $5…
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Seeking a lift: Queens lawmaker urges MTA to equip more 7 train stations with elevators
A Queens state lawmaker on Tuesday urged the MTA to make more 7 train stations running through the borough more accessible to all residents. Assembly Member Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (D-Queens), as part of her campaign to unseat state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Queens), called on the transit agency to install elevators at four 7 train stations that are currently inaccessible to riders…
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