NYC City Guide: CDC Travel Guidelines and Latest NYC Tourism News
On November 8 international travelers will be eligible to return.
Crain’s New York Business: City moves to limit new hotel development
A proposal to require all newly built hotels to secure a special permit is one step closer to becoming law in New York City.
City Signal: HANYC Sues NYC Over Severance Pay Mandate
Though New York has been scrambling to get back on its feet in recent months following the pandemic, some areas continue to suffer, such as the hospitality industry.
Lexology: New York City Enacts Law Requiring Severance Pay for Hotel Employees
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a requirement that New York City hotels pay their non-managerial employees $500 in severance pay every week, for each week after October 11, 2021 that the employees remain laid off.
Curbed: Can Eric Adams Really Turn 25,000 Hotel Rooms Into Affordable Housing?
Last month, Eric Adams, the presumptive 110th mayor of New York City, stood in front of a boarded-up hotel in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to lay out his plan to fight the growing homelessness problem.
NY1: Looking at an NYC law that requires hotels reopen or pay workers laid off during pandemic
NEW YORK — Denise Matthew says her desk looks exactly the same as she left it back on March 18, 2020.
Politico: Gifted and talented scrapped, for now
Hotel owners sue NYC over new law requiring severance for workers,
The Real Deal: Hotel conversions race against the clock
On a nondescript corner in Brooklyn, sandwiched between on-ramps for the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, a long-vacant hotel formerly run by the Jehovah’s Witnesses is starting a new chapter.