Richard Khavkine

A coalition of current and retired New York City employees, union leaders and former elected officials is urging city Comptroller Brad Lander to reject the city’s agreement with two major insurance firms to administer health benefits for more than 750,000 active and retired municipal workers and their families.

Even as builders across New York scramble to fill open jobs, one group is making quiet but steady inroads: women. Once nearly absent from the state’s construction sites and offices, women now make up about 9 percent of New York State’s construction workforce — and they’re earning more than most of their peers nationwide, according to new data.

Even as builders across New York scramble to fill open jobs, one group is making quiet but steady inroads: women. Once nearly absent from the state’s construction sites and offices, women now make up about 9 percent of New York State’s...

Uber and Lyft drivers working the five boroughs are being kicked off their apps without notice, without due process and without recourse, according to a recent survey of nearly 350 rideshare drivers who were deactivated from their platforms.

The head of the NYPD’s largest union is skeptical that Mayor Eric Adams’ pledge to boost the number of cops by 5,000 within a few years can ease the department’s attrition challenges. Adams last week said the administration would dedicate funding...

The city recorded the fewest shootings and murders in its modern history through the first 10 months of the year, according to figures released Monday by the NYPD. The department said both the city and its transit system also saw record-low crime...

The city will offer a second chance at reinstatement to nearly 3,000 former city employees fired for not complying with Covid vaccination mandates instituted four years ago, Mayor Eric Adams said this week. The terminated employees will be...

Three youth development specialists with the city’s Administration for Children’s Services have been charged in federal court with participating in a bribery scheme in which they allegedly smuggled marijuana, tobacco and other contraband into...

Citing continued improvements in safety, staffing and behavior management, the federal monitoring team overseeing conditions of adolescent offenders at the Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx has concluded that its mission “is complete.” In its...

The city’s long-awaited shift to a new health insurance plan for active and retired city employees and their dependents cleared a final procedural hurdle last week when Comptroller Brad Lander’s office registered the contract for the NYC Employees...