Happy Friday, everybody! It’s me, Carlie Houser, your host of the Daily. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on in town these days, including updates on: The two Brooklynites among this year’s David Prize winners 💚 The Coney Island aquarium just got a really big check 🐠 A […]

The debate held at Pace University in Manhattan is the only forum where the candidates agreed to meet prior to the Nov. 8 election. Absentee balloting is already underway, and early voting begins on Saturday. The pair met as polls have tightened in Zeldin’s favor, with one poll putting him just four percentage points behind […]

Big banks deliver glad tidings In the past week we’ve learned something interesting about the economy: It’s actually fine. That, at least, is what banks say. Yes, mortgage activity is down, but otherwise, loan demand remains good. Account balances? High. Delinquencies or defaults? Essentially none. Investment bankers are having a bad year because there are […]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia on Saturday proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ personal data after two major cybersecurity breaches left millions vulnerable to criminals. The penalties for serious breaches of the Privacy Act would increase from 2.2 million Australian dollars ($1.4 million) now to AU$50 million ($32 million) under amendments […]

The developers are accused of violating the terms of the 421-a program by submitting falsified documents claiming that the designated affordable units in these buildings would be rented to qualified tenants. In reality, the DA’s office alleged, they rented the units at higher rates to tenants who, in some cases, did not qualify for affordable […]

In New York state nearly 900,000 low-paid workers—one-tenth of the workforce—are likely misclassified as gig workers when they are truly employees, said New School economist James Parrott, who has studied the conditions around contingent work in the city and state, particularly in the transportation, construction, personal services, building services and retail industries. Companies that rely […]

NEW YORK — Waves of union organizing continue to sweep the retail sector, hitting Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Apple, and other large retailers. As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported, some Brooklyn baristas with Starbucks were off the job and on a picket line on Saturday. It was an all-day strike for workers who voted over the […]

Examples of systemic tenant abuses that the unit will take on include denying critical heat and hot water, deliberately withholding critical repairs, opening holdover proceedings that question residents’ tenancy without just cause, and initiating hazardous construction to make living impossible–Bragg highlighted one previous case against a landlord who removed a staircase to prevent tenants from […]

While the economy is doing well at the moment, a number of indicators and global issues—the impact of surging inflation, interest rates going up more than had been expected, the effects of the Federal Reserve ending quantitative easing and Russia’s war in Ukraine among them—are ringing alarm bells, Dimon said. “The likely place you’re going […]

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The Thursday proceedings proved to be unexpectedly dramatic as Councilwoman Marjorie Velázquez suddenly reversed her long-standing opposition to the rezoning, urging a yes vote before the zoning and franchises subcommittee. The councilwoman had commented as recently as Tuesday that she was against the rezoning and that the developers were “not operating in good faith,” according […]

The top-rated taproom for the last two years, the Connaught Bar, ranks No. 8 this year, a relatively notable drop. “It’s relinquished its crown,” says presenter Mark Sansom, content director for the World’s 50 Best Bars. New York still maintains a powerful grip on the list. Six Big Apple bars are included in the top 50, including Overstory, which stands on the […]