The key question might not be whether the city should live without Rikers, or how it would do so, but whether it has the political will to finish the transformation that has already started.
The CAFR, as it’s lovingly known, isn’t for everybody. Or, really, anybody. But the PAFR? We smell a hit.
The five boroughs are outpacing the 50 states when it comes to output, and unemployment rates have fallen for all five boroughs. But there was also a record drop in the number of New Yorkers who are either in a job or looking for one.
There have been 26,000 fewer misdemeanor arrests in 2015 compared to the same period last year, with drug crimes and turnstile jumping among the crimes that have seen the biggest drop in busts.
The Fair Chance Act will restrict when employers can ask about an applicant’s criminal record and how that information is handled when it comes to deciding whom to hire. A video report.
New York continues to rank among the states with significant decreases in its unemployment rate and increases in job numbers.
The head of a Queens local is seeking to defeat James P. Hoffa for the presidency of the Teamsters.
And that’s distressing, given the increasingly robust economy—and the likelihood that the Fed will soon tap the brakes.
Celebrity real-estate broker Ryan Serhant is promoting two luxury towers that will rise on sites now occupied by garages on East 13th Street. Next door, in a property sold in a package with those sites, tenants are suing over a pattern or harassment.
The Brooklyn property owner is alleged to be employing the tactics to gentrify its buildings.
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