Faced with a sharp drop in its endowment and a $15 million deficit, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced on Monday that more than 100 of its 1,200 employees had accepted buyouts and that dozens more would be laid off.
The society, which operates the Bronx, Central Park, Prospect Park and Queens Zoos and the New York Aquarium, also announced what it called a vast overhaul intended to make it “meaner, leaner and greener.”
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The two-week strike by unionized employees of Verizon offset all of the hiring that occurred last month in New York City and pushed the city’s unemployment rate up slightly, according to figures released Thursday by the State Department of Labor. The city’s official unemployment rate...
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The Rent Guidelines Board has approved a nearly 4 percent hike for rent-stabilized apartments in the city, affecting some 1.1 million apartments by 3.75 percent for one-year renewals and 7.25 percent for two-year contracts, the New York Daily News reported. The hikes will take effect...
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The Rent Guidelines Board will hold a final vote tonight on how much the tenants of more than one million rent-regulated city apartments will pay this fall. Board members are gathering at Cooper Union’s Great Hall at 5:30 p.m. to consider a hike of 3...
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The Rent Guidelines Board has approved a nearly 4 percent hike for rent-stabilized apartments in the city, affecting some 1.1 million apartments by 3.75 percent...
