National
Outback Steakhouse cuts hours to the bone
Outback Steakhouse’s parent company is cutting hours — in some cases to zero — for more than 2,600 employees across New York and 700 in Connecticut in the latest in a series of labor...
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Erik Engquist
Senior managing editor
Erik joined The Real Deal as senior managing editor in 2019 after 14 years at Crain's New York Business. Prior to that he wrote a weekly political column for Courier-Life Publications for which he was named "best political columnist" in New York by the Village Voice. From 1996 until 2000 he reported for daily newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, covering education, development and municipal government. A graduate of Yale University, Erik has won two National Headliner Awards and was the lead writer for two series that won the New Jersey Press Association's top public service award in consecutive years. He and his wife have twin sons, born in 2000.
National
Home-purchase loan requests rise for third straight week
An index tracking mortgage applications to buy single-family homes gained 6 percent, seasonally adjusted, last week from the week...
New York
The Plaza shuts down and lays off 251
Prestige, glamour and Central Park views proved no match for the microscopic coronavirus as the Plaza Hotel stopped taking guests Friday and announced 251 layoffs. “We fully support our local authorities as they work...
Vacation home travel ban not on Cuomo’s agenda
Requests by the Hamptons, North Fork and upstate to stop the virus-inspired migration from New York City have not...