Nick Garber

New York

Politics Reporter at Crain's New York Business

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Articles

Adrienne Adams gets $2M in matching funds while Cuomo is docked again

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

Adrienne Adams was awarded $2 million in public matching funds for her mayoral campaign, a critical cash infusion for the City Council speaker that will ensure she has the means to run advertisements and try to bring down Andrew Cuomo before the June 24 Democratic primary. The city’s Campaign Finance Board approved the $2,004,918 payment to Adams on Friday, which will augment the $520,000 in private donations she has already raised since making a late entrance into the race in March.
Fast-developing East Harlem gets city’s newest business improvement district

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

East 125th Street, the fast-developing corridor whose growth has coincided with persistent crime and sanitation issues, now has a new distinction: New York’s newest business improvement district. A unanimous City Council vote on Wednesday established the East 125th Street BID as the 77th such organization in the city, helping East Harlem shed its status as the last Manhattan community district without a BID of its own.
Billionaire Tisch family boosts Manhattan council candidate with a super PAC

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

An already well-funded Manhattan City Council candidate is getting an extra boost from an outside super PAC funded by members of the billionaire Tisch family. Rachel Storch, one of six candidates running in the competitive District 4 Democratic primary, is the beneficiary of an independent expenditure committee that reported its first spending this week.
Council approves Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue rezoning, enabling 4,600 homes

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

The City Council on Wednesday approved a major rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, which promises to transform a thoroughfare lined with warehouses and auto shops into a mixed-use neighborhood with some 4,600 new homes.
Council to approve Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue rezoning, enabling 4,600 homes

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

The City Council on Wednesday will approve a major rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, which promises to transform a thoroughfare lined with warehouses and auto shops into a mixed-use neighborhood with some 4,600 new homes.
DoorDash banks $2M to boost NYC Council candidates, after $1M Cuomo donation

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

The food delivery company DoorDash plans to spend as much as $2 million to boost a handful of City Council candidates in the June 24 Democratic primary, the company exclusively told Crain’s. The commitment, which comes on top of the company’s $1 million donation to a super PAC boosting Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral bid, signals DoorDash’s hopes of installing a slate of elected officials inclined to look favorably on the company’s policy goals.
Long-awaited 485-x numbers show warning signs for key New York housing incentive

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

The developers of 118 buildings citywide have signed up to use the new 485-x tax break, representing about 2,600 housing units, according to eagerly awaited data that provides the first glimpse at the viability of the much-debated building incentive. The city’s Housing Preservation and Development department released data Friday showing how many developers registered their interest in using the program between June 2024 and May 1.
Kathryn Wylde retiring as New York’s leading business advocate

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

Kathryn Wylde is retiring after a quarter century advocating for New York’s business sector, counseling mayors and governors and shaping key policies as president of the Partnership for New York City. Wylde, 78, announced Thursday that she will step down in 2026 from the Partnership — the nonprofit consortium of finance, real estate and law firms that she has helmed since 2000.
E-bikes, rent freeze, Cuomo: 6 takeaways from Crain’s mayoral forum

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

Five of the leading candidates for mayor addressed their plans to build more housing, freeze stabilized rents and regulate e-bikes at a Crain’s mayoral forum — all while hammering the front-runner, Andrew Cuomo, with only a month remaining to lower his standing before the June 24 Democratic primary. Comptroller Brad Lander, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, state Sens.
NY boosts benefits for striking workers, helping hotel union ahead of contract battle

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Nick Garber

New York’s new budget includes a measure that speeds up how quickly striking workers can receive unemployment benefits — a change backed by organized labor that could benefit a powerful hospitality union in their upcoming contract fight with city hotel owners. All New York workers who apply for unemployment must wait one week to collect benefits after losing their job, while striking workers have had to wait an additional two weeks.