When Governor Kathy Hochul issued her 2023 budget plan at the start of February, one line item that didn’t make the top bullet points in her press release was her proposed expansion of the state’s already-generous tax credit program for TV and … Continue reading
Happy November! If you’re happy with your job, congrats. But if you’re not, Tuesday brought a new wrinkle to the job search process: Thanks to a new law passed by the city council in January and delayed for implementation until … Continue reading
In the first few months of 2022, a rush of plans for new or renovated National Football League stadiums has shattered all-time records for levels of public funding provided to sports projects. First came the April approval of just over $1 … Continue reading
As Major League Baseball’s scheduled March 31 opening day looms nearer without a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the nation’s sports media are pointing fingers squarely at both sides: the players’ union as well as team owners, who have been … Continue reading
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation in December making Ohio the 33rd state to legalize sports gambling, the talk locally was less of opening up the joys of betting on who’ll score the Cleveland Browns’ first touchdown than of … Continue reading
When the New York city council held a hearing on October 13th to address the digital divide — the persistent inequities in internet access that have left millions of New Yorkers without sufficient broadband service — Felix Guzman, a member of, VOCAL-NY, had … Continue reading
If pandemic Manhattan is a ghost town, Hudson Yards is its ghost capital. The million-square-foot mall built into the base of 20 Hudson Yards is open but eerily empty, its assemblage of single-named highest-end stores—Dior, Fendi, Cartier, Rolex—entirely devoid of … Continue reading
Among the many dilemmas facing New York amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest is how to make sure that city residents can still feed themselves. Even as food pantries and soup kitchens are shutting their doors thanks … Continue reading
Even in an East Village littered with “For Rent” signs in store windows, East Ninth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A stands out.At the east end of the block sits a six-story brick edifice, freshly painted white, that was … Continue reading
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s latest proposal to expand Penn Station is an overflowing grab bag of promises to commuters and city residents to improve what the governor called in his budget speech yesterday the station’s “seven levels of hell”. Cuomo is … Continue reading