NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much
Why Local Law 144 isn't just a missed opportunity, but dangerous.
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What if we made It easier for renters to buy their buildings?
A new bill in Albany would give tenants the right to purchase their buildings — and the funding to do it.
‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: the first US town to demand a rent decrease
When housing prices soared in Kingston, it tried something no other city had ever done.
Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired
Austin Locke was sacked days after he helped unionize workers. A monumental new labor law means he’s back on the job.
Does New York’s Chinatown Really Need an Arch?
New York has approved funding for the city's first Chinatown gate. Not everyone is happy.
The crumbling building where no one claims to be the landlord
The strange case of a Crown Heights building that no landlord claims to own.
The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state
Why the midterm "red wave" surfaced in immigrant-heavy southern Brooklyn.
What happens when you house more than 1,000 refugees on a cruise ship?
Temporary cruise-ship housing for migrants has become a real trend — does it work?
Why one Chinatown mini-mall languishes while another thrives
How do you save a community mall when its intended community is gone?
How delivery workers won their first charging hub
"It makes me think nothing is impossible,” said Gustavo Ajche, founder of Los Deliveristas Unidos.
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
“People looking to make money, not lose it.”
‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’
A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
How the world’s first NFT vending machine lets you lose money in person.
‘We have to make ourselves seen’: the New York rent strikers fighting eviction
When the coronavirus first hit New York City, many tenants stopped paying rent. Some refuse to start again.
E-bike batteries are setting a record-breaking number of fires every year
The people most in danger are New York City's delivery workers.
Jing Fong couldn’t survive. Will Manhattan’s Chinatown?
Was it the pandemic that felled Jing Fong, or policies that have made the neighborhood vulnerable ?
