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Uptown [1][2] trains are delayed while we address a signal problem near Chambers St.
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
[A] trains are running with delays in both directions after we removed a train with a mechanical problem from service at 80 St.
In the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
Coney Island-Stillwell Av-bound [F] trains are running with delays after we addressed a signal problem near W 4 St-Wash Sq.
[G] trains are running with delays in both directions while we address a signal problem at 21 St.
No [N] service in Manhattan
[Q] service is rerouted via the [D] and [F] in Manhattan
No late night [R] between Whitehall St-South Ferry and Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr [R] runs express between Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr and 36 St
Two summers of the same bacteria, the same cooling towers and now the same death toll, seven, have Harlem asking why its outbreak waited a year for a lawsuit.
More than 50 survivors and families sued New York City, NYC Health + Hospitals and Skanska USA Building Thursday over last year's Central Harlem Legionnaires' outbreak, which The City Reporter says killed seven and sickened roughly 120 [97]. The suits land days after officials declared this year's separate Upper East Side outbreak over, with a matching seven deaths [93]. DISPUTED: amNewYork puts this year's Upper East Side toll at over 90 sickened, NBC New York at more than 50 [93][94].
“Geography does not have anything to do with violence.”
“I'm a single mother now. We don't have her best friend and we don't have my soulmate.”
GothamistA teenager's death near City Hall turned e-bikes into the fight both the mayor and the Council speaker want to be seen winning.
A week after 17-year-old Gabriel Nacato died riding an illegal e-moto near City Hall, Mayor Mamdani sent cease-and-desist letters to 42 online retailers, including Amazon, Wayfair and Walmart, demanding they stop selling devices that break the city's speed and weight caps by Aug. 18 or face $2,000 fines per sale [48][51]. Council Speaker Julie Menin countered with 17 bills headed to a Sept. 30 hearing, after e-bike collisions rose 31.7% this year [48].
“Every family deserves to know that when their loved ones leave home, they will make it back safely.”
“When it comes to registration for e-bikers, I do not believe that that would actually improve street safety.”
6sqftGothamist
Hell Gate
Streetsblog New York CityAn 11-year-old who can't read English was handed his own asylum case this week, because the lawyers who used to do it for free just lost their funding.
At Manhattan's court for detained migrant children Wednesday, an 11-year-old Guatemalan boy named Diego, translated from K'iche', told the judge he didn't know how to fill out his own asylum application; she gave him two and a half weeks to do it alone or face deportation [4]. It was the first docket since the $356 million federal contract funding lawyers for unaccompanied children lapsed July 31 [4]. A federal judge separately ordered Washington to pay nonprofits for months of unpaid legal work by Friday noon, though the program's future funding remains unresolved [5].
“I don't know how to do it... I don't know if you can help me fill it out.”
“Why should a child face a deportation judge?”
El Diario NY
There is, improbably, still a genuine secret hiding in Central Park: a 218-year-old surveying bolt that engineer John Randel Jr. planted in 1808 to lay out Manhattan's street grid, rediscovered by surveyors in 2004 and now deliberately unmapped by the parks department, which won't say where it is for fear someone will steal it [103]. A Gothamist reporter spent two hours combing the park's west side for it this week, taking hints from a stranger and blowing past the Belvedere Castle and the Bethesda Fountain without stopping, before giving up empty-handed, proof, as the writer put it, that New York "is not a museum of itself" [103].