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New York City Has 25 Days To Settle Retirees' Switch To Privatized Insurance, Arbitrator Rules
The ruling puts pressure on the city to finalize a Medicare Advantage plan for a quarter million retirees.

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The ruling puts pressure on the city to finalize a Medicare Advantage plan for a quarter million retirees.

Fires caused by the lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes, scooters and other mobile equipment are on the rise in New York City.
A group of Battery Park City residents went to court to stop the coastal protection project that would raze then raise Wagner Park.
The groups City Hall leans on to prevent street violence at a community level will soon have a new boss, THE CITY has learned.
The MTA is sniffing around on testing pee-detection technology that alerts staff to clean wet and smelly messes in subway elevators.
Last December, the governor said she would change the way pardons and clemency applications were handled. But little has changed since.
By contrast, judges in Suffolk County on Long Island have issued hundreds of ERPO bans since 2019, the state data shows.
The city says the safe injection site in the neighborhood, the first in the nation is reducing more than just overdoses. NYPD disagrees.
In order to fix the bedbug issues, the company also agreed to cover the cost of home pest inspections at workers’ requests.
City planners look to create as many as 6,000 new apartments near future Metro-North stations, among 50,000 homes to come.
Workers on the picket line said the decision to go on strike was not easy, nor one they were eager to make.
The publisher of W42ST is rallying support from readers and elected officials to help him get back to his life and work in Hell’s Kitchen.
“Those that are expecting an improvement in affordability will be disappointed,” says Douglas Elliman analyst Jonathan Miller.
Funding MTA as a vital utility could lessen the reliance on fares and boost mass transit, say some of the authority’s board members.
The campaign finance scheme first exposed by THE CITY wasn’t enough for prosecutors to bring fraud or graft charges, judge rules.
After THE CITY reported on the local mainstay’s likely closure, owners say they have new hope for a new lease on life.
Without flood-protected chargers, the MTA could lose $10.4 mil per day from the M42 bus crossing Manhattan and $945,00 from the B32 bus.
More than $730,000 has been taken from clients this year through August, according to data provided to Legal Aid by OTDA.
President warns paychecks will cease for instructors at Village home to Parsons and famed liberal arts programs.
Service disruptions abound, as modernization efforts to address them face obstacles.