Private companies in New York City added just 956 jobs during the first half of the year, a dramatic slowdown in hiring that is just now showing up nationally. Outside the pandemic and the Great Recession, the last time hiring was this sluggish in New York? 2003.

New York City is expected to welcome 400,000 fewer tourists this year than it did in 2024, a decline primarily driven by negative sentiment toward the United States among foreign travelers who have reconsidered their vacations.

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.” That drama dates back 25 years.