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Matthew Haag

@matthewhaag.bsky.social

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Reporter at The New York Times

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Matthew Haag @matthewhaag.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s one thing to threaten to leave. It’s another to follow through.

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Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.

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Matthew Haag @matthewhaag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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.

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New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year

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Matthew Haag @matthewhaag.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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.

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New York City Predicted Record Tourism. Then Came Trump.

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Matthew Haag @matthewhaag.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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.

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Trump Raged at Columbia Over $400 Million Decades Ago. Sound Familiar?

A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

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