Daily digest from New York business publications and financial media. Manhattan Business Club publishes short summaries with links to the original sources.

Crain’s New York Business

• Trump hits Democrats on crime, taxes to boost Lawler – Crain's New York
  Trump hits Democrats on crime, taxes to boost Lawler  Crain's New York
• City investigates possible Legionnaires’ exposure in East Village building – Crain's New York
  City investigates possible Legionnaires’ exposure in East Village building  Crain's New York
• Jaryn Bloom, 36 – Crain's New York
  Jaryn Bloom, 36  Crain's New York

New York Business Journal

• Greenpoint's Polonaise Terrace to make way for housing – The Business Journals
  Greenpoint's Polonaise Terrace to make way for housing  The Business Journals
• Nourish raises $100M for AI nutrition platform — plus 7 more funding deals to know – The Business Journals
  Nourish raises $100M for AI nutrition platform — plus 7 more funding deals to know  The Business Journals
• Hotel Association pins softer-than-expected World Cup bookings on Trump policies – The Business Journals
  Hotel Association pins softer-than-expected World Cup bookings on Trump policies  The Business Journals

Bloomberg Markets

• Rubio to Meet India’s Modi With Energy, Trade Ties in Focus
  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, with energy security high on the agenda as the South Asian nation grapples with soarin…
• Deadliest China Coal Mine Blast Since 2009 Kills at Least 90
  The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s Shanxi province has jumped to at least 90 people, making it the country’s deadliest such incident since 2009.
• Ebola Outruns Containment in Eastern Congo as Contact Tracing Falters
  Ebola is spreading faster than responders can track it in eastern Congo, where health workers managed to follow up with barely one in five identified contacts in a single day.

MarketWatch MarketPulse

• Jobless claims fall to lowest level since mid-May
• Jobless claims stay low in latest week
• Consumer credit growth soars in December

New York Post Business

• How leaks, demands and a phone call derailed Estée Lauder’s deal to create a $40B luxe giant
  The merged company would have put together brands such as Tom Ford, Clinique and MAC with Carolina Herrera and Charlotte Tilbury, popular with TikTok influencers and affluent mill…
• Soup sold at Whole Foods, Amazon recalled in numerous states: FDA
  Soup’s off the menu — literally.
• Spirit lost $1.61 for every $1 it took in — and would still be losing money even if jet fuel was free
  The embattled budget carrier ceased operations earlier this month after it failed to secure a $500 million bailout from the Trump administration.

Commercial Observer

• ICSC 2026: Inflation, Trampoline Parks and the Fate of Luxury
  Another year is in the books. Tens of thousands of brokers and investors piled into the Las Vegas Convention Center earlier this week to talk retail at ICSC and Commercial Observe…
• Dutch Investor Pays $110M For New Rental in Aventura, Fla.
  Dutch investor Breevest has paid $110 million for a new multifamily asset near the Aventura Mall in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, property records show. Called Avida Aventura, the …
• Peachtree Group Provides $32M Construction Loan for Alabama Hotel 
  Spandrel Development Partners has sealed $32.36 million of construction financing to develop a Marriott-branded hotel in Huntsville, Ala., Commercial Observer has learned. Peachtr…

The Real Deal New York

• Floyd Mayweather hits Jona Rechnitz with fraud lawsuit, alleges diversion of $175M
  Floyd Mayweather Jr. is suing his scandal-plagued former buddy and investment manager Jona Rechnitz, claiming Rechnitz gained his trust and then diverted $175 million from the cha…
• Sherwin Belkin, prominent New York landlord-side attorney, to retire
  It’s the end of an era for New York’s landlord class: Sherwin Belkin is retiring.  Belkin, a co-founding partner at Belkin Burden Goldman, is perhaps one of the city’s best-known …
• Modified COPA nears passage despite real estate pushback
  A controversial City Council housing bill that once sent the real estate industry into a panic is back in play: the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act. The proposal, better kno…

City & State New York

• Opinion: Why does New York shackle women during labor? – City & State New York
  Opinion: Why does New York shackle women during labor?  City & State New York
• Raga cosponsors pro-Palestine bill his senate opponent helped write – City & State New York
  Raga cosponsors pro-Palestine bill his senate opponent helped write  City & State New York
• Here’s what’s in the FY 27 New York state budget – City & State New York
  Here’s what’s in the FY 27 New York state budget  City & State New York

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