Legislation introduced by state lawmakers would exempt first responders, veterans, medical personnel and others from the newly instituted congestion pricing toll when they drive into Manhattan’s central business district with their personal...
Some doctors in the city’s public hospital system aren’t happy with the tentative contract recently reached between the Doctors Council and their private-sector affiliate employers. The deal, which starts Aug. 25, 2023 and is set to expire Aug....
The number of cops leaving the NYPD remains high, posing an ongoing challenge for a department struggling to attract candidates. The NYPD added just 2,600 new recruits last year, not enough to replenish the 2,951 cops who retired or quit in...
A fat cat, a pig wearing a top hat and five rats. All seven inflatables faced the 34th street entrance of the Empire State Building on Thursday, two weeks into a protest by members of Laborers Local 79 who rallied, hundreds strong, in the shadow...
On a late December day in 1964 I visited Granny at the Hazleton State Hospital, an old brick building in Pennsylvania once known as the Miners’ Hospital. She was on the first floor in a big open space. Large windows and screens, wheelchairs and...
Workers who clean Con Edison facilities in Manhattan have turned up the pressure in the new year to win improved benefits and pay from Nelson Service Systems, the contractor employing dozens of cleaners across the city. Many of the workers...
Responding to the recent series of violent attacks in the subway, among them the fatal burning of Debrina Kawam on an F train in Coney Island and the stabbing of an MTA worker at the Pelham Parkway station, Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Commissioner...
Dozens of lawmakers are urging the governor to increase funding for programs that provide student loan assistance for public defenders, public interest attorneys and prosecutors across the state. Nearly 70 legislators signed onto a Jan. 16 letter...
Following the reelection late last year of Mike Carrube to a third five-year term as president of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association, union members are raising the alarm about what they say is the union leaders' quashing of dissent. The...
About 90 percent of the members of the Professional Staff Congress who voted have chosen to ratify a contract agreement with the City University of New York that will provide compounded raises of 13.4 percent and a $3,000 ratification bonus, the...
Legislation ensuring that city employees who move to a different agency don’t experience a lapse in their healthcare coverage was signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams Monday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week announced the indictment of Kendis Paul, the owner of KEP Construction, on charges of stealing $67,000 from 10 former employees working at an Upper West Side construction site from September 2023...
Although doctors in the city’s public hospital system have temporarily halted a planned work stoppage, their disappointment over staffing shortages and a policy that has halved appointment times for new patients hasn't gone away in the...
Hundreds of NYPD sergeants and their allies converged on West 125th Street, across the boulevard from the Apollo Theater and just ahead of Mayor Eric Adams’ State of the City address at the storied venue last Thursday, to decry the city’s stance...
City Council legislation that would preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits has so far found little traction, but advocates have vowed to persist in their effort to defeat the Adams administration’s plan to switch the former city workers into...
A former city correction officer who conspired to smuggle narcotics, food and other contraband into a Rikers Island jail in exchange for cash payments from inmates has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. Ghislaine Barrientos, of Mount...
Almost a year after taking a near-unanimous vote to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, workers at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company are ratcheting up pressure on management and threatening to strike if...
The NYPD graduated 625 new officers Tuesday in a Tuesday ceremony at Madison Square Garden following their six-month stint at the Police Academy. A quarter of the class is female. Of the newly minted cops, 145 come from 35 different countries...
Doctors at four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system have agreed to temporarily postpone an unfair labor practice strike that was set to start Jan. 13. Last month, physicians at Jacobi Medical...
The fatal stabbing of three persons in broad daylight. The immolation of a woman in a subway car. The execution-style shooting death of a CEO outside a Midtown hotel. Those high profile murders and other violent crimes had residents on edge in...
President Joe Biden signed legislation Sunday that will ensure around 2.5 million public sector workers reap the entirety of their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision, and the...
A building services company has agreed to cancel existing no-poach agreements and to refrain from entering any new ones after a joint investigation by the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey. The probe by New York Attorney General...
When Firefighter Brendan Gaffney arrived with the rest of Ladder Company 36 to the lobby of an Inwood building that had caught fire from an exploding lithium-ion battery, he was informed by residents in the building’s lobby that there were people...
With the congestion pricing program south of 60th street in Manhattan kicking off Sunday, the head of a union representing FDNY EMS employees is advising his members who work at three stations within the tolling areas to request transfers out of...
Citing the possible appearance of a conflict, the state attorney general’s office has recused itself from the investigation into the death of Robert Brooks, the prisoner who died after enduring a severe beating by state correctional officers last...
