Developer’s SoHo affordable housing project could trigger new minimum wage requirement

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 7/17 8:55A Eddie Small

The developer of a project planned for SoHo may be willing to pay the $40-per-hour minimum wage requirement tied to a new affordable housing tax break. Dallas-based real estate firm Trammell Crow recently filed plans with the Department of...

Half a dozen 99-unit buildings could rise in Jamaica, Queens

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 7/14 8:09A Julianne Cuba

A sextet of new residential buildings with no more than 99 dwelling units apiece is slated for Jamaica, Queens, records show. Local developer Ami Weinstock submitted plans to the Department of Buildings Monday for six new projects, each standing...

These 47 people will make or break NYC’s casino bids

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 7/8 7:45A Nick Garber

Forty-seven neighborhood activists, elected officials and city and state bureaucrats will decide this summer which of New York’s multibillion-dollar downstate casino proposals lives or dies. The state’s Gaming Commission on Monday announced the...

Adams’ Midtown housing plan faces fashion-industry pushback

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 7/8 12:33A Nick Garber

The City Council is close to approving a major rezoning of Midtown that could clear the way for 9,700 new homes in a transit-rich neighborhood with high office vacancies  — but criticism from the area’s remaining garment manufacturers could be...

Jamaica Hospital plans to start work on new cancer center

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 7/7 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is seeking state approval to start construction for a new six-story cancer facility as part of a state-funded initiative to keep the struggling safety-net hospital afloat. The Queens hospital, which has 408 beds,...

Jamaica’s Bluefields Bay villas may be the Caribbean’s best kept secret

NYPost.com (Living) 6/23 1:07A Robert Cocuzzo

Bluefields Bay might just be the best kept secret in all of Jamaica. For more than forty years, those in-the-know have snuck off to a series of hidden villas overlooking mesmerizing emerald waters where an old-world form of hospitality still...

Bronx company Golden Krust grows by introducing Jamaican food to new audiences

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 6/16 12:33A Lilah Burke

About 200,000 Jamaican-born people live in New York City, according to the American Community Survey. But many more New Yorkers than that have tasted Jamaican food. And Golden Krust, a fast-casual restaurant chain that serves the Caribbean...

Deals of the Day: June 11

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 6/11 7:43A Julianne Cuba, C. J. Hughes, Edd

Leases Affordable housing nonprofit inks lease in FiDi tower Address: 60 Broad St., Manhattan  Landlord: Piedmont Realty Trust Tenant: The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Lease size: 10,979 square feet  Asset type: Mixed-use  Brokers:...

Two-alarm fire sparks at Grand Central, snarling LIRR service

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 6/10 7:55A Caroline Spivack

A Tuesday fire in a train tunnel has snarled Long Island Rail Road service at Grand Central Terminal, according to fire and transit officials. The FDNY responded to a track fire just after 8 a.m. that appeared to be sparked by an electrical...

Le Chêne and 5 other restaurants to try in June

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 6/2 12:33A Lilah Burke

Alexia Duchêne says she’s ready for a solo project. The French chef, once a semifinalist on Top Chef France , trained in kitchens in Paris and London. But in New York, she saw an opening. Most of the French restaurants in the city skew very...

State health regulators signal support for long-awaited trauma center in the Rockaways

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 5/30 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

A once far-fetched goal of building a new trauma center in the Rockaways is plodding forward, but is not guaranteed just yet. The Rockaway peninsula, often characterized as a health care desert, has gone without a trauma center for more than a...

Knicks’ chief orthopedist keeps the team ready for big games that go down to the wire

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 5/29 9:25A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Dr. Answorth Allen’s career and love for New York sports fit together like a healthy knee joint. Allen is the associate surgeon-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and the chief orthopedist for the NBA’s New York Knicks. A sports fan and...

Council to approve 4,600-home revamp of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 5/28 7:59A Nick Garber

The City Council on Wednesday will approve a major rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, which promises to transform a thoroughfare lined with warehouses and auto shops into a mixed-use neighborhood with some 4,600 new homes. The...

Council approves 4,600-home revamp of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 5/28 7:59A Nick Garber

The City Council on Wednesday approved a major rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, which promises to transform a thoroughfare lined with warehouses and auto shops into a mixed-use neighborhood with some 4,600 new homes. The...

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center forges ahead on state-funded cancer center

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 5/27 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is mapping out construction of a new oncology hub in Queens as part of a state-funded effort to modernize struggling safety-net hospitals. The 408-bed facility, based in Richmond Hill, requested approval last week...