City & State NY: The 2023 Power of Diversity: Asian 100
When state lawmakers formed an Asian American caucus in 2017, the only Asian American members were Assembly Members Ron Kim and Yuh-Line Niou. Since then, their ranks have swelled to 12, four in the state Senate and eight in the Assembly. Similarly, the New York City Council has gone from just two Asian Americans – Margaret Chin and Peter Koo, both term-limited in 2021 – to six today.
New York Post: 7 Penn Plaza to get new roof deck, upgraded lobby amid Penn redevelopment pause
As the city’s vital hotel industry struggles to fully recover from the pandemic, it can do with all the public support it can muster. So Mayor Eric Adams’ opening remarks Monday at the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation “red carpet hospitality gala” at the Pierre will be closely followed.
CoStar News: New York Hotels Benefit From Influx of Migrants From Southern Border
Tourists gradually returning to New York have boosted demand for hotel rooms, an industry hit hard by the fallout of the pandemic. But a big part of that recovery isn’t coming from travelers.
The Jewish Voice: NYC Hotel Industry Yet to Reach Full-Scale Recovery After Devastating Pandemic
New York City’s hotel industry, devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic, is on its way to recovery, but not quite there yet.
New York Post: New York City’s hotel industry remains confusing with ‘misleading’ data
The health of the city’s hotel industry is a crazy-quilt pattern of mostly optimistic but confusing and conflicting cross-currents. Large new hotels continue to open even as famous old ones close for good. Occupancy’s way up over 2021 but still below pre-Covid times.
The New York Times: How Manhattan Hotels Became Refuges for Thousands of Migrants
Just steps from Times Square and surrounded by Broadway theaters, the Row NYC hotel advertises itself as “more New York than New York,” bringing together “urban grit with grandeur.”
Documented: Millions Spent on Hotels for Asylum Seekers in NYC, But Few Lasting Solutions
After escaping political persecution in Zulia, Venezuela, José Rivera arrived in a hotel-turned-shelter in Long Island City, Queens, last August. Once there, it took him three months to learn he and his family, as asylum seekers in NYC, were eligible for health insurance and another three months to file his asylum claim.
Idealista News: Remote work is costing Manhattan about 12,000 million euros a year
Three years after the pandemic, companies and administrations around the world continue to try to attract employees back to the offices and revive local economies. New job data analyzed by Bloomberg News shows that, in several US cities, Fridays at the office are dead. Mondays are a game of chance. And going back to pre-pandemic work hours seems like a lost cause.