With expiration of their time in free city beds fast approaching, some migrants are racing to find a place to rent while others are unsure where they will end up.
Employment
Posted inPets
Cat-astrophic Crowding Shuts City Animal Shelters to New Arrivals
Animal Care Centers of NYC cites ‘critical capacity issues’ as it grapples with a surge in people giving up pets, many due to financial pressures.
Posted inEconomy
The Hollywood Strike Could Cost NYC Tens of Thousands of Jobs
Work related to film and television production accounts for some 5% of all jobs in the city.
Posted inRetail
Retail Jobs Vanish Even as Local Economy Recovers
Manhattan has 20% fewer store employees than before the pandemic — and Amazon is a prime reason.
Posted inLabor
Judge Delays Rollout of Delivery Worker Minimum Wage Law
A temporary order bolsters efforts by apps to stop a law that would require them to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour and make New York the first major U.S. city to set a wage floor for them.
Posted inEmployment
How Hundreds of Production Assistants Got ‘Made in New York’
The training program to help bring underrepresented New Yorkers into the film and TV industry has led, on average, to graduates’ salaries growing by 2.4 times.
Posted inEconomy
Office Occupancy Breaks 50% — Not So Fast for NYC ‘Doom Loop’
THE CITY’s June economic recovery analysis shows a jump in office usage, and a small boost on job and unemployment figures.
Posted inPools and Beaches
Lifeguard School’s Lesson: Parks Department Bosses Are the Enemy
Union-run mandatory workshops double as outlets for anti-management messages, while staff shortages keep stretches of beach closed.
Posted inImmigration
Mayor Adams Declared NYC ‘Destroyed’ by Migrants, but Economics Tell a Different Story
From the Irish potato famine to the 1970s fiscal crisis, immigration has been key to the city’s growth in ways that are playing out again as asylum-seekers arrive.
Posted inHealth and Hospitals
Elmhurst Hospital Doctors Strike, Protesting Pay Gap With Mount Sinai
Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.