UES medical office building near Lenox Hill Hospital faces foreclosure

CrainsNewYork.com (Advertising & Marketing) 5/8 11:40A C. J. Hughes

A half-full medical building around the corner from Lenox Hill Hospital is at risk of being auctioned off to the highest bidder after some lenders have accused its owners of being more than a year behind on mortgage bills. A group of investors...

As NEA Cuts Hit Hard, Arts Groups Are Readying Their Fundraising Pitches

Observer.com (Politics) 5/8 10:11A Daniel Grant

When Deborah Block, artistic director of Philadelphia’s nonprofit theater company Theatre Exile, received word last November that a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts had been...

Crime is dropping in city’s business districts, Tisch says

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 4/23 6:10A Nick Garber

Crime has dropped significantly in some key business districts in the first few months of 2025, mirroring an encouraging citywide trend, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Crain’s New York event Wednesday morning. There were zero...

Crime is dropping in business districts, Tisch tells city leaders

CrainsNewYork.com (Biotech) 4/23 6:10A Nick Garber

Crime has dropped significantly in some key business districts in the first few months of 2025, mirroring an encouraging citywide trend, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Crain’s New York event Wednesday morning. There were zero...

Adams’ neighborhood-reshaping rezonings could permit 40,000 homes in 2025

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 4/22 12:48A Nick Garber

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is making steady progress in its quest to rezone four neighborhoods by the end of 2025, an effort that could produce some 40,000 new homes and burnish Adams’ legacy if he leaves office after this year. The largest...

NYC Easter morning fire kills 3, leaves 4 others injured: cops

NYPost.com (Metro) 4/20 6:15A Larry Celona, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

A 911 call sent firefighters to 8725 Chevy Chase St. in Jamaica Estates shortly before 1:40 a.m. for the three-alarm blaze.

‘Ghost Face' man wanted for raping woman in Queens at knifepoint: NYPD

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 4/14 9:41A NBC New York Staff

Police want to find a man they say raped a 50-year-old woman at knifepoint last week in a Queens neighborhood in the middle of the night. The man seen in surveillance images wearing a “Ghost Face” sweater from the “Scream” movies allegedly raped...

President Trump’s childhood home in NYC sells at steep discount — after being overrun by feral cats

NYPost.com (Business) 3/27 10:26A Josh Kosman

The price for the Tudor-style residence in the leafy Jamaica Estates enclave in Queens is less than half of the $2.14 million it previously fetched in 2017.

Judge appoints receiver for Chetrit-owned apartment complex in Queens

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 3/26 7:28A Aaron Elstein

A federal judge appointed a receiver to manage two market-rate apartment buildings in Queens after their owner, Meyer Chetrit, fell behind on nearly $2 million in utility bills and risks putting thousands of residents in the dark. The appointment...

City's hospitals try to tackle housing with mixed success

CrainsNewYork.com (Energy & Utilities) 3/20 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

A building with three-bedroom apartments in a refurbished tuberculosis treatment center in Jamaica. Studio apartments with a back garden on an old parking lot in Bed-Stuy. A residence with one-bedroom units and a community health clinic on the...

State awards more than $50M to 4 city affordable housing projects

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 3/18 8:28A Eddie Small

A quartet of affordable housing projects in the city are getting a funding boost of more than $50 million total. The money for the outer-borough developments comes from federal and state low-income housing tax credits, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep....

Pregnant woman punched in face on rush-hour NYC subway train, sources say

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 3/5 6:51A Marc Santia

A seven-months pregnant woman was punched in the face by a stranger as she used her phone on a subway in Queens last week, police and law enforcement sources say. The woman was on a southbound J train at the time of the rush hour attack on Feb. 25...

Northwell spends big on lobbyists as it seeks Upper East Side expansion

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 3/5 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

The state’s largest health care system was also one of the biggest spenders on lobbyists trying to influence city government last year. Northwell Health, a New Hyde Park-based provider network with 21 hospitals and over 800 clinics in the region,...

Cyber crooks busted in NYC for stealing, reselling nearly 1K tickets for $635K, including screwing...

NYPost.com (Metro) 3/3 8:56A Amanda Woods

Tyrone Rose, 20, of Kingston, Jamaica, and Shamara P. Simmons, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, were busted in connection to the scam that raked in $635,000 from June 2022 and July 2023, according to the Queens DA’s Office.

As Adams plots big housing moves, Hochul pulls back

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 2/18 5:06A Eddie Small, Nick Garber

New York is still expensive, and housing is still one of the main reasons why, so it is unsurprising that the issue will continue commanding attention in 2025. But the housing agenda at the city level looks more ambitious than its Albany...