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The Manhattan Business Review

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New York Business

NYC’s AI Training Grants Should Reward Less Rework

A blank 30-day rework ledger with columns for work item, first draft, check and fix, follow-up and final result
PHOTO: Contributed by Gleb Tsipursky; illustration and photo courtesy of the author

Gleb Tsipursky on a 30-day rework ledger for New York small businesses and what the city’s AI training grants should reward.

By TM Business Review Newsroom · 7 min read
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The numbers

New York by the numbers
4.8%
Unemployment rate
NYC Economic Development Corporation, Economic Snapshot (NYS Department of Labor and BLS data), August 2026 · data
4,653,354
Jobs in New York City
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW, 2025 · data
12.9%
Office vacancy rate
NYC Economic Development Corporation, Economic Snapshot (CoStar data), 2026 Q2 · data
159,139
New business applications
US Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics (county, annual), 2025 · data

Property

All Property
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