
ALT Headline from AMNY titled "Some NYC restaurants lost entire outdoor dining seasons waiting for permits, comptroller finds." Subline reads "by Adam Daly, October 27, 2026." Image shows people dining at tables outside of restaurant.

ALT Excerpt from article reads "But while DOT has substantially accelerated approvals this year, the comptroller’s office found the agency still lacks an adequate system for tracking how long applications spend at each stage of review. That makes it difficult to determine whether delays are caused by DOT, applicants submitting paperwork, or other legally required reviews involving community boards and the City Council. “Unfortunately, the permitting process is a maze of approvals that takes far too long, depriving restaurants, bars, and cafes of expanded capacity and sorely needed revenue,” Levine said in a statement. The report found that restaurants often spent months corresponding with DOT staff over application requirements, including technical drawings of proposed outdoor dining setups that can be difficult for small business owners to produce." Image shows diners outside restaurant.

ALT NYC Comptroller Levine's Statement on Anthropic's IPO: Anthropic is rushing toward an IPO without answering fundamental questions about its readiness to operate as a publicly traded company. Despite repeated pledges to prioritize safety and responsibility, Anthropic has yet to provide sufficient evidence of how it is addressing what the company itself has described, even most recently as today, as the potential ‘catastrophic or existential risks to humanity’ posed by AI. An IPO brings enormous new pressures and scrutiny, and the burden is on Anthropic to demonstrate action, not just rhetoric, to investors-including the millions who may gain exposure to its stock through passive index funds. It would have been so much more prudent to slow this IPO down considering all the safety risks.





































