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  1. August 28, 2026 A federal appeals panel that includes two Trump appointees refused to let the Justice Department seize the medical records of transgender youth treated at NYU Langone and Mount Sinai while the government appeals.
  2. August 28, 2026 Mamdani named a 15-member Business Advisory Council including RXR's Scott Rechler and chef Marcus Samuelsson, weeks after Ken Griffin and Steve Roth attacked the pied-à-terre tax.
  3. August 24, 2026 The couple who scaled the Empire State Building's spire and got engaged on July 1 were back in court Monday on reckless endangerment, burglary and criminal mischief charges.
  4. August 23, 2026 Carnegie Deli's red-and-white sign went back up this week on the same block it fed for nearly 80 years, with a return planned for the fall.
  5. August 16, 2026 "Ban the Scan," a Council bill to bar Madison Square Garden's facial-recognition scanners, picked up an endorsement from Mamdani's consumer affairs commissioner this week, though no vote is scheduled.
  6. August 8, 2026 The Tony-nominated revival "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" takes its final Broadway bow tonight after 142 performances, with a cast album still coming this winter.
  7. August 3, 2026 Rush played the third of four sold-out Madison Square Garden shows, the band's first tour since drummer Neil Peart's 2020 death.
  8. August 1, 2026 The Empire State Building's observatory income fell 48.5% as international tourism slumps, forcing owner ESRT to take a $166 million impairment charge.
  9. July 31, 2026 DOB ordered a peer review of the MetroLoft building next to the Pfizer tower whose columns buckled this month, after engineers found reinforcing steel was never installed on three floors.
  10. July 30, 2026 The Department of Buildings swept at least eight more construction sites tied to the Pfizer building's steel fabricator, issuing a new stop-work order in Greenwich Village.
  11. July 29, 2026 A new city law raising the minimum wage for the 20,000 building security officers citywide to $22.20 an hour took effect on the anniversary of last year's mass shooting, honoring Aland Etienne, the officer killed trying to shut down the building's elevators.
  12. July 24, 2026 SL Green raised its earnings guidance 26% on a Manhattan office leasing boom, signing 53 leases for 445,000 square feet last quarter as scarce Class A space pushes rents higher.
  13. July 23, 2026 The Department of Buildings swept eight sites tied to the fabricator implicated in the Pfizer tower near-collapse, adding a stop-work order in Greenwich Village.
  14. July 9, 2026 Street restrictions around 235 East 42nd Street narrowed Wednesday but four buildings remain under full vacate orders, leaving hotel guests, workers, and business owners locked out more than 24 hours after the evacuation.
  15. July 7, 2026 Urban Hawker, the Singaporean food hall conceived with Anthony Bourdain and hawker-stalls champion K.F. Seetoh, will close this month, six years after it opened.
  16. June 26, 2026 Life sciences leaders from drug companies, real estate firms, and universities are pushing Mayor Mamdani to reverse an EDC decision that slashed the agency's life sciences division from eight employees to two, warning the move will stall growth in New York's still-developing biotech industry. (Crain's New York)
  17. June 25, 2026 RXR listed the Helmsley Building at 230 Park Avenue for about $670 million, roughly $530 million below the $1.2 billion it paid a decade ago, as CEO Scott Rechler continues unwinding problem office assets and replacing institutional capital with "special situation" funds willing to be contrarian.

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