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Parking today, healthcare tomorrow. (Photo courtesy Property Shark.)

$90 M. Hotel Worker Health Center Coming to Downtown Brooklyn

From the BAM Cultural District to Williamsburg, Brooklyn is undergoing a hotel boom. And pretty soon, all of those workers—or at least, the unionized ones—will have a new place to go for check-ups.

The New York Hotel Trades Council & Hotel Association of New York City, the city’s leading hotel workers’ union, and its Employee Benefit Funds just picked up a $19 million parking lot at 620 Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn, on an irregularly-shaped lot bounded by Fulton Street, Ashland Place and St. Felix Street. Read More

By The Real Estate Desk 8/17/10 2:51pm

Dyspepsia

Cuozzo Slams Ward, Bloomberg Over Tavern on the Green Debacle

The New York Post‘s Steve Cuozzo, self-appointed defender of New York’s culinary legacy, is spitting mad at Mayor Bloomberg and the Hotel Trades Council’s Peter Ward over the demise of Tavern on the Green, which he says will continue to sit empty because the union’s labor agreement with the city is so onerous it has Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 5/19/10 4:32pm

Food Fight

Tavern Negotiations Near Breaking Point

The Wall Street Journal adds its voice to the recent spate of stories about the still fruitless negotiations between labor and incoming Tavern operator Dean Poll that would allow one of New York City’s most storied restaurants to finally reopen.

According to the Journal, “The sticking points include the naming of an arbitrator and Read More

By Eliot Brown 11/18/08 5:26pm

Hotel Union Discovers Its Muscle

On Nov. 12, at an event announcing his support for the Bloomberg administration’s planned Willets Point redevelopment, Queens Councilman Hiram Monserrate made a round of thank-yous, mentioning city officials, other electeds, his staff and, with a smirk, the unions.

“I want to thank all my labor partners, who ensured and reminded Read More

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$90 M. Hotel Worker Health Center Coming to Downtown Brooklyn

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Tavern Negotiations Near Breaking Point

Hotel Union Discovers Its Muscle

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