A million taxpayers will soon receive up to $1,400 from the IRS. Who are they and why now?

A million taxpayers will soon receive up to ,400 from the IRS. Who are they and why now?

Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks. The money will be directly deposited into eligible people’s bank accounts or sent in the mail by a paper check. Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the … Read more

New Hudson Yards project to add much-needed housing, hotel near Javits Center

New Hudson Yards project to add much-needed housing, hotel near Javits Center

They won’t shoot out of the ground overnight, but a 72-story skyscraper apartment tower and a 28-story hotel are in the future for the burgeoning Far West Side, aka the Hudson Yards District. Gov. Kathy Hochul named a four-member development partnership as “conditionally designated” to build the tower and a Hilton-branded hotel at 418 Eleventh … Read more

Manhattan office ‘visitations’ continue to rebound from pandemic nightmare: survey

Manhattan office ‘visitations’ continue to rebound from pandemic nightmare: survey

Manhattan office “visitations” — a measure of total office-tower use including for retail stores and by building employees — continued their robust rebound from the pandemic in November, according to the latest Placer.ai location data analyzed by the Real Estate Board of New York. The survey of 350 buildings found average visitations at 67% of … Read more

A race is on to clean up shorelines off Crimea after tons of oil spills from damaged Russian ships

A race is on to clean up shorelines off Crimea after tons of oil spills from damaged Russian ships

Cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted by mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product, according to … Read more

Trump’s deportations on a collision course with California’s economy

Trump’s deportations on a collision course with California’s economy

This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries humming. On one hand, we simply cannot function without them. On the other, xenophobic politicians whip up fear and mistrust of workers on the lowest economic rungs when it serves their purposes. And voters, who … Read more