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The mad scramble comes as Albany struggles to close a $15 billion budget deficit and create jobs in a state badly hurt by the pandemic.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last summer, we wrote about two principles of New York law that could provide a path to insurance coverage for businesses hit hard by the economic losses resulting from Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19-related shutdown orders.  Although we noted that businesses seeking such coverage would likely face an uphill battle, we proposed that recovery under certain business interruption policies might be available in New York because: 1) an insur...

Suffolk Construction Suffolk Construction is one of the top industry players in Boston, where it’s headquartered, but it has also been steadily expanding its presence in New York, where Charlie Avolio has been leading the charge. Avolio, who previously worked at Turner, joined Suffolk Construction in 2016 as the company opened a new office in New York City and launched its bid to gain a share of the local market. He works closely with Will Whitesell, New York’s chief operating officer.  22...

Rigoberto Lopez, 21, was taken into custody by New York City police on Saturday Police sources said Lopez, who is mentally ill, was charged on Sunday with murder and attempted murder after confessing to four separate attacks  Subway rider, 67-year-old male, was wounded in stabbing on Friday before noon  Twelve hours later, a man was fatally stabbed in neck, torso in southern Queens  Two hours later, a woman, 44, died from stab wounds after she was found Minutes later, another man, 43, was wo...

Calls grow for MTA to reinstate 24-hour subway service in New York City  MTA workers said they have been assaulted, harassed, and threatened overnight  On August 5, Reggie Frazier, 61, was accosted by assailant at 2:15am  Police said Ramon Garrido, 36, attacked him with milk crate in Upper Manhattan  Frazier suffered a torn tendon in his knee as he was trying to flee assailant  Narinder Kumar, 70, an MTA station agent, was pushed to tracks on December 24 Last July, a train operator and co...

New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in early November, Andrew Cuomo’s American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic quickly fell back to earth. Word must have spread that the governor’s self-aggrandizing account of New York’s pandemic management was far less “riveting” than promised by the publisher’s blurb. By year’s end—after Cuomo had again banned indoor dining in New York City, sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again, and launched a shambolic vac...