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Labor

‘Finally There Is Justice:’ Former Tobacco Sweatshop Workers Relieved Over Wage Theft Indictment

June 6, 2025, 1:27 p.m.June 6, 2025, 3:07 p.m.

Workers overcome with emotion as they learn their former bosses were charged with more than $310,000 in wage theft and more.

Employment

Job-Promoting Tax Breaks Are on the Brink of Blowing Up

June 6, 2025, 5:00 a.m.June 6, 2025, 3:35 p.m.

Both a longtime incentive to locate jobs outside Manhattan and a new proposal to boost employment in the city’s central business district will vanish unless the state legislature acts soon.

Brooklyn

Operators of ‘Grabba’ Tobacco Sweatshop Charged With Wage Theft, Reckless Endangerment

June 4, 2025, 1:37 p.m.June 5, 2025, 2:10 p.m.

In a 74-count indictment, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez charged HotHead Grabba, its owner and top managers in connection with alleged wage theft and health hazards in a tobacco sweatshop empire.

The Bronx

Community Ownership Is Now Part of Kingsbridge Armory Revival Project

June 3, 2025, 6:38 p.m.June 3, 2025, 8:08 p.m.

Northwest Bronx Community Clergy Coalition negotiated space to aid small businesses and local workers as the city begins public review to develop the long-vacant landmark.

HOPE Program participants working with NYC CoolRoofs apply a reflective paint to a Flushing residential building roof

Climate Change

Roof Painters Reflect on Their Role Fighting Climate Change

May 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 27, 2025, 12:02 p.m.

If you’ve wondered why more rooftops gleam with a bright white coating, it’s part of a plan to lower building temperatures by bouncing sunlight that would otherwise get absorbed.

Young people train at Fort Hamilton High School to become city lifeguards.

Pools and Beaches

Beach Season in NYC is Just Beginning. For New Lifeguards, It Began Months Ago.

May 22, 2025, 3:45 p.m.May 22, 2025, 4:31 p.m.

The Parks Department now has training centers in high schools across the city, and is hoping to change the culture of the beach watchers.

A pedestrian uses their phone in Manhattan.

Work

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

March 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 27, 2025, 1:39 p.m.

New Economy Project and other groups urge governor to enforce interest rate limits, as the legislature weighs whether to expand or rein in the fintech industry’s reach.

New York State’s Department of Labor maintained a website for people to claim unemployment benefits.

How to New York

What to Know About Applying for Unemployment in New York City

March 26, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 25, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

If you get laid off, head to the Department of Labor’s website ASAP.

A construction worker heads back into a Midtown site.

Worker Safety

Thirty NYC Construction Workers Died in 2023 — the Most in a Decade of Tracking

March 4, 2025, 4:55 a.m.March 4, 2025, 10:28 a.m.

On-the-job deaths climbed for the third year in a row, according to an annual report from a worker-safety group, raising alarms as city and federal watchdogs lose teeth.

Immigrant workers whose legal work permits and deportation protections are tied up in state wage theft investigations protested outside the state Department of Labor’s Brooklyn office.

How to New York

How to Deal With Wage Theft in NYC in the Trump Era

Feb. 27, 2025, 4:55 a.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 12:09 p.m.

A conversation about how to go after your boss — while staying safe — with the leader of the Manhattan DA’s Worker Protection Unit, Rachana Pathak.

Work

‘Finally There Is Justice:’ Former Tobacco Sweatshop Workers Relieved Over Wage Theft Indictment

Job-Promoting Tax Breaks Are on the Brink of Blowing Up

Operators of ‘Grabba’ Tobacco Sweatshop Charged With Wage Theft, Reckless Endangerment

Community Ownership Is Now Part of Kingsbridge Armory Revival Project

Roof Painters Reflect on Their Role Fighting Climate Change

Beach Season in NYC is Just Beginning. For New Lifeguards, It Began Months Ago.

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

What to Know About Applying for Unemployment in New York City

Thirty NYC Construction Workers Died in 2023 — the Most in a Decade of Tracking

How to Deal With Wage Theft in NYC in the Trump Era

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