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Jericho-based 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. will pay $375,000 and provide refunds to eligible customers under a New York settlement involving automatically renewing subscriptions. New York Attorney General […] The post Jericho-Based 1-800-Flowers to Pay $375K, Refund Customers Over Auto-Renewals first appeared on SciFisland.com .
Liberty Mutual and nine affiliated insurers are suing a network of New York clinics over an alleged $1.5 million no-fault billing scheme. The complaint was filed on July 23, 2026, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. According to the filing, Liberty Mutual is seeking to recover more than $743,000 it says it already paid on the disputed claims, along with a court declaration that it owes nothing on more than $500,000 in claims still pending.
Their goose isn’t cooked yet! New York’s foie gras farmers are making one last stand against the Big Apple’s ban on the French delicacy — taking their fight to court once again. Lawyers for La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras will be filing a new plea to the New York State Court of Appeals on Monday in a bid to stop the 2019 City Council ban on foie gras, which is made from deliberately enlarged duck and goose liver, which critics say is cruel process. The foie gras ban in NYC has yet to take effect and upstate farmers are hoping to save their feathers with another appeal. Boston Globe via Getty Images “We’re fighting to protect our family, our employees, and our way of life,” Sergio Saravia, whose family has operated La Belle Farm in Ferndale, N.Y., for nearly 30 years, told The Post. Depression-era Little Debbie snack that built a family-run bakery still has Americans hooked Foie gras distributors warned that losing access to the traditional dish holds deeper significance. “It’s a shame for the liberties, gastronomy in general, and quality of life,” said Ariane Daguin, daughter of famous French chef Andre Daguin. She co-founded and
With another stretch of summer heat pushing air conditioners into overdrive, environmentalists are questioning whether New York’s electrical systems can withstand a drastically warming climate. The concern goes beyond keeping the lights on. Electricity powers hospitals, subways, and drinking water and wastewater plants alike. Environmentalists say the July 4...
The New York Power Authority and New York Transco, co-developers of Propel NY Energy, have finalized the proposed routing of their planned underground transmission lines and hired contractors for pre-construction activities. Residents in affected areas continue to oppose the roughly 90-mile project, set to run across Nassau County into Westchester.
Most Fidelis Care members no longer have in-network access to Northwell Health hospitals and physicians after the two organizations failed to reach a new contract. The mid-year coverage drop began on Thursday, July 16, after Northwell and Fidelis remained at an impasse over reimbursement rates. Northwell said that Fidelis owes...
Three months after Tulsa’s Williams Cos. received approval from the state of New Jersey to build a controversial natural gas pipeline to carry gas from Pennsylvania to New York City and Long Island, an environmental group has filed suit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It is...
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses and private nonprofit organizations in New York of the Aug. 14 deadline to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans to offset economic losses caused by the Red Hook Five-Alarm Fire occurring Sept. 17, 2025, according to a July 22 announcement. The...
Andrew Cuomo’s warning about New York’s future is not simply about people packing their bags...
Day one, the bin store sets its prices. Day two, everything gets cheaper. By the end of the week, the same item that cost several dollars on Monday costs exactly one. New York has a few stores running this system, and the shoppers who figured it out first have been very selective about who they tell.
The Mamdani administration was able to dig itself out of a major cash flow crisis thanks to an unanticipated billion-dollar windfall from Wall Street last month — and by delaying payments to a health care trust fund for retired city workers, according to a new analysis by City Comptroller Mark Levine.
Hochul’s Bold Hell’s Kitchen Plan Would Add 1,127 Homes. The proposal would replace an Intrepid Museum parking lot with housing, affordable ownership opportunities, public space and a new STEM education center. Governor Kathy Hochul’s Hell’s Kitchen housing development proposal would turn a state-owned Manhattan parking lot into 1,127...
She’s trying to have it both ways. Gov. Kathy Hochul boasted Wednesday that she’s not on board with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tax the rich” crusade — even as her new tax on luxury second homes is driving the well-to-do away. The Democratic governor said she’s not squeezing millionaires and billionaires for revenue, and claimed that the new “pied-a-terre” tax she pushed through wasn’t speeding up the ongoing exodus of New Yorkers fleeing to cheaper states. Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed she’s against the “tax the rich” crusade that’s a rallying cry for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his socialist cronies — even though she did push through a new tax on luxury second homes in the city. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post “We should not be raising taxes on high-net-worth individuals,” Hochul told FOX5’s “Good Day New York” on Wednesday. “We should not be raising taxes on the companies that are creating the jobs and generating the revenue that helps us pay for the services that people in New York City come to rely on.” The “pied-a-terre” tax hits the owners of non-primary residences in the five boroughs with an annual tax ranging from 4% to 6.5%, targeting condos and co-ops
New York’s gas stove ban is burning developers! Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman put the heat on Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday— slamming a state law banning natural gas as a “green energy scam” that’s thwarting construction and real estate development. “We are ruining our economic development in this state,” Blakeman said at a press conference in Brooklyn. “We are creating the housing shortage under the lack of leadership of Kathy Hochul, with the acquiescence of [Mayor] Zohran Mamdani. Bruce Blakeman called the natural gas ban “a national embarrassment.” Gregory P. Mango for NY Post “It’s costing residents of New York State billions of dollars,” he added. Blakeman rallied against the aggressive environmental law, which bans installing gas stoves and heating in newly built homes, at a construction site in Carroll Gardens that he said was stalled out by the law. Trump skewers Hochul’s ban of data centers in NY: ‘Terrible decision’ The press conference, attended by real estate leaders and elected officials, came after a federal appeals court upheld the ban two weeks ago. Blakeman called the gas ban — which applies to new buildings up to seven stories tall beginning this year, and taller buildings by 2029 — “a
Bruce Blakeman slams Hochul’s gas stove ban
Community land trusts are on the move, claiming an NYPD parking lot for affordable housing in the East Village. Cooper Square Committee, Housing Works and Spatial Equity will work with This Land is Ours Community Land Trust to build 131 affordable units, plus a senior center and community space on the site of an NYPD lot at 324 East 5th Street. The project, currently estimated at more than $90 million, promises to provide 25 replacement parking spots for NYPD use upon completion.
All renderings courtesy of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced the development team selected to transform a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot used by the Intrepid Museum into a mixed-use development with more than 1,100 apartments. Gotham Organization, Fisher Brothers, and Mural Real Estate Group will turn the state-owned site at 621 West 45th Street into two connected skyscrapers with 1,127 homes, including about 338 affordable units, new facilities for the museum, and a public park that connects to the existing pedestrian bridge. The project stems from a request for proposals issued in February 2025 for one of the largest remaining undeveloped parcels on Manhattan’s Far West Side.
