A new state law will clamp down on what Gov. Kathy Hochul called a “predatory black market” for restaurant reservations.

He says he knows more than a dozen 18-year-olds who are using bots to buy and resell trainers. Most do it to bump up their spending money. "If they know there's a hype behind the shoe, it doesn't ...

The law targets services that use bots to acquire the most sought-after reservations at NYC restaurants and re-sell them.

Last year, he introduced a bill to Parliament to ban the resale of electronic goods bought by automated bots. He says that consumers would benefit from the eventual banning of scalping altogether.

Hochul signed a bill on requiring digital platforms to contract directly with restaurants in order to sell reservations there ...