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The ground on West 34th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues is trodden on by hundreds of thousands of commuters hoofing into and out of Penn Station and by fans streaming into Madison Square Garden.But what’s this dirt worth?This down-and-dirty matter has sparked a bitter fight pitting one of the city’s biggest landowners against one […]

ChatGPT Health, the AI platform’s new medical triage app, missed signs of impending critical illness and frequently failed to direct users to emergency services in life-threatening cases, according to a new study from researchers at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine.The study, published in Nature Medicine on Monday, is the first independent peer reviewed safety […]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has tapped Erin Dalton, a veteran Pennsylvania human services administrator, to lead the city's Department of Social Services as his administration grapples with fallout over its approach to homeless policy.Dalton most recently led the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, where she worked for more than 18 years and became director in […]

New York State Budget Director Blake G. Washington came down to Manhattan Wednesday morning for an open discussion on the state's fiscal outlook with Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission. During their conversation, he offered a few thoughts on New York City's finances, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls for tax hikes and state […]