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The Mamdani administration has set a summer date for the final closure of the notorious Midtown shelter known as Bellevue following a court victory earlier this week.
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Former First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, the pugnacious lawyer and ally of Eric Adams, has entered the fight to block an East Village shelter that is part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to shutter the Bellevue intake center in Midtown.
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The Health Department is investigating possible measles exposures after confirming a sixth case this year in a Manhattan adult who recently traveled abroad. Officials say there are no connections among the cases, including a Met Opera-goer last month.
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Former President Bill Clinton was the guest of honor at the groundbreaking of a new drug treatment residence in central Brooklyn, where the legacy of the War on Drugs hung over an otherwise celebratory occasion.
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The head of the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs is backing a push to increase gender-affirming care funding that Mamdani has yet to commit to.
The office "is proud to stand with the NYC Trans & Coalition in their budget requests to the City Council.”
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The Hudson Valley’s largest MH provider reached its pre-Covid psych bed count after 6 years, $12M and a settlement. The time, cost highlight the difficulty of reopening beds, one of the lasting impacts of policy decisions made at the height of the pandemic.crainsnewyork.com/health-car…
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Pawel Andrzejczyk remembers nothing of the two months he spent in a coma after he crashed his car in 2024. But doctors saw signs of awareness in his brain after just two weeks using tech that has caught the attention of the National Institutes of Health.
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Former Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol has taken a job at Lux Capital, a venture firm tied to Pentagon contractors including autonomous drone company Anduril, which received a $20B defense contract last month.
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The city’s public hospital system plans to increase the number of street medicine vans by 50% with new funding in the mayor's preliminary budget as the pandemic-era program continues to gain traction.
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In his first months in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's celebrity hasn’t faded as much as it has morphed with the realities of running city government.
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NYU Langone is petitioning to strip the names of deceased donors from a prominent hospital complex to free up lucrative naming rights when it completes a $250M makeover.
"I think it's wrong...or they should pay me, a la Avery Fisher," the daughter said.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a new mayoral office to take over several existing public safety and mental health functions, billing it as the first step to fulfilling a campaign promise to create a brand new city agency.
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The head of the city’s public hospital system defended a contract with data giant Palantir at a City Council hearing this week amid concerns over the company’s ties to federal immigration enforcement.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul called on the Trump administration to restore staff to the World Trade Center Health Program, joining a chorus of Republican Congress members raising alarms that the service is faltering.
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As Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces pressure to improve the city’s mental health crisis response, an overhaul of the city’s beleaguered 911-based program unveiled in the final days of the Adams administration has not moved forward.
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Patients, staff at Mount Sinai will soon face the same facial recognition tech used at the airport under a deal with Clear that raises questions about patient privacy, data security and workplace surveillance at one of the state's largest health systems.
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None of the state budget proposals from the governor, Senate, or Assembly address the expected loss of health insurance for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers over the next year, budget watchdogs say.
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OpenAI's new medical triage tool, ChatGPT Health, missed signs of impending critical illness and frequently failed to direct users to emergency services when prompted with life-threatening cases, according to a study from researchers at Mount Sinai.
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The mayor has quietly tapped former First Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Management Christina Farrell to lead the agency as acting commissioner, Crain's has learned. She steps into the job as the city continues to grapple with the historic cold front.
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About 150 people took shelter at the city's two overdose prevention centers on Saturday night, and again on Sunday night, after City Hall extended a contract to keep their doors open during the coldest weekend of the deadly freeze.
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