Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey

New York

Writer and Reporter at Freelance

Award-winning Multimedia Journalist. Writer. Host - @a55pod. @Adelphi_MFA grad. Member, @ForeignPressUSA. https://t.co/q4lkDngImt

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App or Cash? How to Tip The Deliveristas? We Asked the Workers

Feb 23, 2024 | w42st.com | Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey

It’s hard to keep pace with a New York deliverista (and yes, we know they can often be seen riding too fast, and on the sidewalk, and the wrong way), but even so, we want to make sure these all-weather 24/7 heroes get their tips. With all the new rules for app-based workers and the changes that have since followed, we went to ask the people who count how they should be tipped.
Rolling the Dice: Related Bets Big with $12 Billion Hudson Yards Casino Plan

Feb 21, 2024 | w42st.com | Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey

The West Side’s biggest property developers are raising the stakes with high-rise plans to attract one of three casino licenses that New York State plans to award downstate. Stephen Ross’s Related Companies, one of the handful of big-money bidders for a casino in Manhattan, finally unveiled its plans for a Hudson Yards casino — in a West Side gamble that pits them against developers Silverstein Properties and SL Green.