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It was a difficult year for New York's restaurant world. High labor and food costs squeezed margins already worn thin. Diners pulled back and pinched their pennies. Tariffs rattled supply chains and injected fresh uncertainty. And the federal immigration crackdown brought fear and strain to an industry reliant on immigrant workers.Still, many restaurants found ways to […]

​Hudson Valley Hospital, part of New York-Presbyterian, has agreed to pay nearly $7 million to settle claims that it paid kickbacks to a nearby oncology practice in exchange for patient referrals, state and federal investigators said this week.Hudson Valley Hospital, a 128-bed facility in northern Westchester County, allegedly paid more than $4 million in kickbacks […]

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named a longtime emergency medical services chief as the next commissioner of the city’s Fire Department, a notable choice given his plans to lean heavily on EMTs to respond to mental health and homelessness crises.Lillian Bonsignore will lead the 17,000-person, $2.6 billion department after spending 31 years at FDNY, where she rose […]

More than 1,000 nurses at Northwell Health facilities on Long Island authorized a potential strike, their union announced Tuesday, the latest in a series of walkout threats as over a dozen hospital labor contracts expire at the end of this year.Roughly 90% of union nurses at Plainview, Syosset and Huntington Hospitals voted in favor of […]