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New York City will move more than 10,000 children off its child care voucher waitlist, giving low-income families free care for children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and up to age 19 for children with special needs. The Administration for Children’s Services will begin inviting eligible families to apply in the coming weeks. Key Takeaways Governor Kathy Hochul’s $1.2 billion child care commitment to New York City includes $475 million set aside for child care vouchers.

Small business owners across Alaska face the same fundamental challenge as business owners everywhere: real opportunities and real cash flow gaps rarely wait for a slow lending process. Whether the need is covering payroll in Anchorage, restocking inventory ahead of a seasonal rush in Fairbanks, or financing a piece of equipment that lets a business take on more work, access to fast, transparent capital can be the difference between an opportunity captured and an opportunity missed.

Hundreds of cyclists rode out of Central Park on Saturday, October 3, for the second Best Buddies Challenge: New York. Tour de France champions Chris Froome and Alberto Contador led the 100-mile ride to the Hudson Valley. Organizers expect the event to raise $4 million for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Key Takeaways The Best Buddies Challenge: New York is expected to raise $4 million for programs serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

For much of the technology industry, public relations used to be measured in headlines. A startup announced a funding round, a journalist wrote about it, executives shared the article on LinkedIn and the campaign moved on to the next announcement. That cycle has become considerably more complicated.

New York City’s Click to Cancel rule took effect October 1, 2026. Businesses serving New York City consumers must now make subscriptions as easy to cancel as they were to start. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection enforces the rule, with penalties starting at $525 per violation and a new online complaint portal for residents.

New York fashion rarely stands still. Neither does the modern woman. One week she may be navigating Manhattan in winter layers. The next she may be boarding a plane in search of sunshine. SUNSKAARA is building its seasonal fashion story around that reality. The brand’s Holiday and Winter Collection celebrates comfort, with pajamas playing a central role in gifting and relaxed seasonal entertaining. Its Resort Collection then moves the story forward into travel and destination dressing.

By: KeyCrew Media New York City’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity eliminated parking mandates in December 2024 across the most heavily populated mandate-free zone in the country, most of Manhattan below 96th Street, Long Island City, and parts of western Queens and Brooklyn. For developers underwriting projects outside those corridors, the reform changed less than the headlines implied. “Zoning stopped requiring parking.

There was a period when most startup capital in India followed a narrow pattern. Consumer apps first, marketplaces second, and anything enterprise-related came later, if at all. That pattern has not held for a while. Somewhere between 2018 and 2021, venture capital started flowing into companies that never intended to build consumer-facing products. Data infrastructure, analytics tools, and software aimed at enterprise workflows began to sit closer to the center of investment attention.

By: Kate Sarmiento Here’s the uncomfortable part nobody warns founders about when they start a company: the exact things that got a business off the ground can start working against it once that business outgrows the person running it. Dr. Sharon Spano is a business strategist and executive coach whose work centers on human and organizational development. Through her firm, Spano & Company, she helps leaders navigate change within their companies and themselves.

Brooklyn Public Library is hosting a welcome party for its new Teen Center at Central Library on Wednesday, September 30, at 4 p.m. The 4,700-square-foot space opened in early September at Grand Army Plaza. It is reserved for teens ages 13 to 18 and anchors the second phase of the building’s $67 million revitalization. Key Takeaways The Teen Center is the largest dedicated teen space among Brooklyn Public Library’s 62 branches, occupying 4,700 square feet in the second-floor Eastern Parkway wing.