This week, conversations about mental health will take place across New York City’s construction industry, bringing needed attention to an often-overlooked crisis. The industry, both the members of the Building Trades Employers Association (BTEA) and the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) will take part in Construction Suicide Prevention Week, a nationwide initiative to address a crisis that continues to grow.

As City Council members consider whether to override Mayor Adams’ veto of a grocery delivery pay standard, members should discount Instacart’s disingenuous arguments and instead look to the latest data on the effectiveness of the restaurant delivery pay standard.

New York City got lucky that the illegal maneuver planned by Brooklyn Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner Frank Seddio at the behest of City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to sideline three important city Charter amendment questions from the ballot fizzled into nothingness. Seddio, the ringleader of a failed BOE coup against the law, retreated when faced with pressure from Gov. Hochul.

Dear Eric: I retired a couple of years ago. I, like many people, I think, have realized that most of my friends and even acquaintances were work-related. My family doesn’t live close. I’ve always been a loner, so this doesn’t normally even bother me. I recently had a health issue come up where I needed a “responsible […]

The Mets (76-69) remain in third place in the NL Wild Card standings.

The Irish poet Nick Laird said in an interview that the ability “to look at something again, to open up a space of second thoughts” is especially important in Northern Ireland, “where all of your instincts have been trained by politicians and churches to go in a particular direction”. This need to get beyond tribal […]

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There has been a huge outpouring of well-deserved admiration for Melvyn Bragg and In Our Time, since Bragg announced he was stepping down from the BBC programme after twenty-seven years. I have joined in with this. IOT has done some things that many people would have thought impossible. It has held millions of people gripped […]

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A chaotic scene unfolded at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning after dozens of containers fell off a cargo ship. It’s unclear how the containers fell off the barge, though one stack of containers had sustained visible damage. Another vessel was situated alongside a larger cargo ship in what appeared to be an […]