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Niagara Falls Redevelopment relocates offices, as Restaino and Trevino raise eyebrows

Niagara Falls Redevelopment, the investment vehicle owned by Manhattan billionaire Howard Milstein that has acquired more than 140 acres of prime real estate in downtown Niagara Falls, has relocated its local office — raising eyebrows in political circles. Roger Trevino

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Hochul instructs Lieber to market all MTA rail yards for development

Governor Kathy Hochul is instructing Janno Lieber, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to market the agency’s vast real estate holdings for large-scale real estate development.  The MTA owns expansive rail yards inside every borough of New York City,

Opinion

TEWS: 5G, Planes, and Progress

By Shane Tews Last week, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. He said that the aviation industry is continuing talks with the wireless industry about

Commerce

Pandemic drove largest New York population loss ever

BY E.J. McMAHON Thanks mainly to a pandemic-driven boost in its already high outflows to other states, New York has just suffered its largest single-year population loss ever—and the worst, in percentage terms, of any state in the past year—according

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New York on track to experience energy deficits of 10% or more

ALBANY, NY – (May, 20, 2022) –  The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) places New York communities at risk of devastating blackouts due to insufficient electricity levels, according to Cold & Dark, a new Empire Center study. The

City & Region

Parolee sentenced for possession of illegal guns

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 26-year-old Brandon Williams, also known as Branden Williams, of Amherst was sentenced yesterday afternoon before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case to a determinate sentence of 7 years in prison followed