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- Lenox Hill Hospital plans to lay off ambulance workers, cut emergency servicesLenox Hill Hospital is planning to lay off more than two dozen EMTs and paramedics as it cuts back ambulance services in Upper Manhattan, according to the workers’ union.The Upper East Side hospital, which is part of Northwell Health, notified the ambulance workers Wednesday that they would lose their jobs within the next 30 days, […]
- Rudin, Vornado file demo permits to make way for 350 Park Ave. skyscraperJust two weeks after getting the green light to break ground on a long-touted Midtown skyscraper, the developers behind the project have filed plans to demolish two of the buildings standing in its way.Richard Concannon, vice president of operations at Rudin, and David Bellman, executive vice president at Vornado Realty Trust — the two firms […]
- City Council mandates radiator inspections after infant's death from steam leakNew York City will require the landlords of more than 100,000 buildings to conduct twice-yearly inspections of steam radiators under a law that passed Thursday. The new rule will apply to apartments with young children, a direct response to the death of a Brooklyn infant from a radiator leak last year.The bill, introduced by Flatbush […]
- Illegal weed smuggling poses major threat to legal market, insiders sayFor several years now, bad actors within the licensed New York marijuana market have been not-so-secretly smuggling in raw wholesale cannabis — and in many cases finished manufactured products — with which to stock newly-opened dispensary shelves in the Empire State, a brazen shattering of state rules known within the trade as “inversion.” Marijuana oversupply from […]
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