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Expert Analysis | Discounting cannabis products at your business? Make sure to calculate tax correctly
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (371+ words) New York's adult-use cannabis marketing and advertising rules allow retailers to offer discounts, loyalty programs and other promotions " but only if the programs are structured in a way that does not undermine New York State and local tax collections. In…...
MAMDANI'S FIRST 100 DAYS: Transportation stakeholders give Mamdani high marks on streets agenda, but more work to be done on buses
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (1774+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn into office at midnight on Jan. 1 inside the old City Hall subway station. The symbolism of the act seemed clear: better transportation would be a core tenet of the new mayor's mission. Immediately after the…...
Where nostalgia turns decadent: The Moonlighters take Tribeca
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (405+ words) There is a particular intelligence embedded in this kind of frivolity, one that feels almost decadent in its refusal to justify itself. Fredo describes The Moonlighters as a universe shaped by imagination, humor, and observation, though what emerges feels far…...
Mission Ceviche's mind-blowing Wagyu menu will make you forget your job
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (569+ words) Have you ever left a restaurant and felt the irrational urge to text it at midnight, as if it were a person, just to say" what, exactly? Thank you? How dare you? What was that? My recent business dinner at…...
Editorial | Rikers Island closure plan becomes an island of uncertainty
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (402+ words) A little more than a year from now, New York City is obligated by its own law, enacted in 2019, to close Rikers Island. On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters that meeting the 2027 closure deadline is "practically impossible." Mamdani laid…...
Union Square subway slashing: Police on the hunt for suspect who attack straphanger
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (265+ words) Detectives are looking for the suspect behind a subway slashing near Union Square last week that left a straphanger seriously injured." According to police sources, the incident unfolded at about 2: 40 p. m. on April 3 aboard a southbound 4 train pulling into the 14 Street-Union…...
Second Avenue Subway: MTA tells court it can't move forward with project unless East Harlem landlord lets them into building
12+ hour, 48+ min ago (810+ words) A landlord is fighting to keep the MTA from accessing his apartment building as part of a project to complete the transit agency's Second Avenue Subway extension for fear that an inspection would expose deficiencies that will be costly to…...
Brooklyn activist pleads guilty to arson after setting fire to parked NYPD cars
17+ hour, 17+ min ago (393+ words) A Brooklyn man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to setting 10 NYPD vehicles on fire in a Bushwick parking lot last year." The charge carries a mandatory five-year minimum prison sentence and a maximum sentence of 20 years. Mc Cray, 22, remains out on…...
Queens man hit with eight murder charges for allegedly setting deadly house fire that killed four people, including toddler
9+ hour, 47+ min ago (242+ words) The man allegedly responsible for igniting a house fire in Queens last month that took the lives of four people, including a toddler, was charged Wednesday with a staggering eight counts of murder. According to police sources, 38-year-old Roman Amatitla…...
NYC apartment buildings could get stinky and gross if the workers that serve them go on strike, union reps warn
17+ hour, 4+ min ago (479+ words) Over a million New Yorkers could soon see crucial services in their apartment buildings disappear as tens of thousands of unionized doorpersons, porters, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers prepare to walk off the job later this month if their demands…...