Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.

When Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his “Rental Ripoff” hearings, he appeared to be advertising a showdown.  A poster marketed the event like a boxing match: “New Yorkers vs. Bad Landlords.”  But the inaugural event in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday night was much more subdued than the real estate industry likely expected, or feared. The event, held at George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, bore more similarities to a parent-teacher conference night than a show trial. New Yorkers circulated through a resource fair in a school cafeteria and met one-on-one with city officials in a side room.  A City […]

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About 4,000 workers will lose their jobs as the payments company does more work with new artificial intelligence tools, its top executive said.

For real estate players seeking financing, dealmaking showed no signs of freezing in January. Lenders doled out dollars in a flurry of big-ticket deals across New York City, led by Genting’s $755 million Queens casino construction loan and SL Green’s $480 million Plaza District office acquisition loan. Hospitality, retail and even a distressed office property also found financing. Banks wrote the biggest checks for the city’s top deals, which spanned several neighborhoods in Manhattan and Queens. All told, lenders parted ways with almost $2.2 billion. Here are more details. Casino cash | $755M | Jamaica, Queens Wells Fargo provided a […]

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The audience was roughly on par with former President Biden’s final State of the Union address in 2024.

The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.

Netflix now has four business days to decide whether it wants to counter Paramount’s offer.

Throughout her career in real estate, Amy Schectman has been drawn to work where she can solve problems.
At 2Life Communities, an affordable senior housing nonprofit, Schectman set out to make senior housing and community a priority, not just for wealthy individuals but for everyday people. What she thought would be a couple of years of hard work turned into a vocation that stretched for more than a decade and a half.
Schectman announced her retirement as CEO of 2Life Communities last month, with her tenure ending in October.

The company sued the administration days after the Supreme Court ruled against the president’s duties.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings will begin this week, promising tenants an opportunity to complain about their landlords — directly to city officials.  But a new analysis from the Real Estate Board of New York suggests that the most acrimonious living situations are in highly concentrated clusters. Just 10 percent of multifamily buildings in the city are responsible for 80 percent of the executed evictions in the last two years, according to the analysis. A similar fraction is responsible for roughly half of the housing code violations in that time period.  The analysis adds data to an ongoing conversation about […]

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