Y’all have to do better!”Long-term impact: The painful commutes are giving some employers the jitters. Some major foreign companies with offices in the city are deciding to expand elsewhere to spare workers New York City commutes, my colleague Ginia Bellafante writes. 1 reason companies chose not to expand in New York was the condition of transportation infrastructure,” Kathryn Wylde, head of the Partnership for New York City, a business coalition, told Ms. Bellafante. The organization studied dozens of foreign companies in its membership last year and found that “expansion of foreign companies is definitely inhibited by concern about whether the transportation infrastructure can support continued population and economic growth.” You can read the report here. Image Jazmine Headley Credit Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York TimesAfter video of her arrest at a Brooklyn social-services office went viral, Jazmine Headley became a cause célèbre.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2018 11:16 UTC