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NYC Small Businesses On The Brink Cast Hopes On New PPP Loans And Rent Deals
Businesses that are hanging on are doing so because their landlords have decided some rent is better than no tenant.

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Businesses that are hanging on are doing so because their landlords have decided some rent is better than no tenant.

Monuments to Christopher Columbus on city parkland remain under constant NYPD protection and behind barricades.
NYPD Hate Crime Task Force records show 27 incidents in all involving Asians, with 24 of them classified as “Other Corona.”
But there’s no love lost between the city and state boards of election, which are each telling a different story this year.
Pressure from the Administration for Children’s Services led a nonprofit service provider to fire an employee over activism.
The MTA says five subway workers have been assaulted between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. since May.
The state, which licenses and inspects all 613 nursing homes in New York, allowed the facilities to administer hydroxychloroquine.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo deflected blame Tuesday for the use of an unproven COVID-19 treatment administered at a state-run nursing home in Queens.
The Yemeni American Merchants Association has helped arrange for set-aside Citi Field appointments for about 50 local bodega workers.
Some folks in The Bronx and Queens will have the opportunity to vote three times in 2021 thanks to a string of special elections.
That’s because so many people combined apartments or homes into one dwelling, the total for new housing dipped below zero, according to ...
Some families have to be sued for eviction before they can get help paying rent.
The news was quickly followed by frustration for some delivery workers who found themselves locked out.
“I want him home yesterday,” Jones told THE CITY. “He needs to be with his family.”
New York State will get approximately $260 million in funeral assistance funds, according to Schumer.
Roughly 25,000 immigrant New Yorkers with temporary legal status could gain permanent residency — and a clear pathway to citizenship.
His plan blew up when the tenant who had moved into the unit he formerly occupied stopped paying rent in the summer of 2019.
The future of the MTA’s $51.5 billion blueprint to improve the transit system has been clouded by uncertainty since being put on hold.
At two Bronx homeless shelters, gaming is opening the door to in-person collaboration for young people desperate for it.
The mayorally appointed body unanimously approved a resolution at a December session to modify its operating agreement.