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In Manhattan, no [1] between 14 St and South Ferry
No [2] between 34 St-Penn Station, Manhattan and Flatbush Av, Brooklyn In the Bronx, [5] replaces [2] between E 180 St and Wakefield-241 St
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In the Bronx, Manhattan-bound [6] skips Buhre Av, Middletown Rd, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, Zerega Av and Castle Hill Av
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [F] runs express from Kings Hwy to Smith-9 Sts
In Brooklyn, Bedford-Nostrand Avs-bound [G] skip Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 15 St-Prospect Park and 4 Av/9 St
In Brooklyn, no [J] between Crescent St and Broadway Junction
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
Three homeowners are suing to unwind a rollout that scared thousands of New Yorkers who don't even owe the tax.
Rachel O'Brien, Carmine Morano and Simon Hedley sued the city Friday in Staten Island Supreme Court, seeking to void roughly 17,000 warning letters the Department of Finance mailed and to force the city to take down its public list of nearly 1 million properties [13][20]. The suit doesn't challenge the tax itself, only how the city identified who owes it [13][22]. Lawyer Randy Mastro, Eric Adams' former first deputy mayor, argues the city should have cross-checked state income-tax records before mailing threatening notices [18].
“Thousands of people who owe nothing have been confused, exposed, and put to real expense so this administration could make a political point. That is not lawful notice.”
“The pied-a-terre surcharge will help deliver the city New Yorkers deserve: cleaner parks, safer streets and critical public investments that make our city a more affordable place.”
Gothamist
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Government events aren't supposed to double as party recruiting stations, and watchdogs say Thursday night blurred that line.
NYC-DSA set up its own table alongside city agency staff and transit groups at Mayor Mamdani's Central Brooklyn bus riders' town hall Thursday, a city-run event [2][8][17]. City Hall says DSA's transit working group was invited for its expertise, the same as Riders Alliance and Transportation Alternatives [8][17]. DSA is legally a 501(c)(4) social-welfare group, not a political party, though Mamdani calls it his "political home" [8]. The city's own ethics board declined this spring to write clear rules on political activity at government-sponsored events, leaving critics with no rule to point to (City & State).
“Every one of us who was involved at all in politics in any way, shape or form knows that the DSA is primarily a political organizing shop.”
“We were one of many non-profit community organizations that tabled at the event with the goal of giving New Yorkers the tools to fight for a stronger bus system — our area of expertise.”
City & State New York - All ContentPolitics | Spectrum News NY1The city just declared the Upper East Side outbreak over. Now a union says a Chelsea hotel's cooling tower tested positive too.
The New York Hotel & Gaming Trades Council filed a health department complaint after a cooling tower at the High Line Hotel tested at 170 colony-forming units of Legionella per milliliter, above the city's disinfection threshold [98]. Management initially withheld proof of cleanup, so the union pulled its members before returning after arbitration; a July 23 retest came back at 700 cfu/mL [98]. The health department confirmed it is investigating the four-star Chelsea hotel, where rooms run about $400 a night this weekend [98].
“There's really not a direct correlation between these numbers and disease risk, because there's lots of other things that go into whether or not disease occurs.”
“to ensure that they investigate to avoid any potential outbreaks and that they keep staff and hotel guests safe and healthy”
Gothamist
Eric Adams spent his mayoralty as a national punchline for his "war on rats," booed just this week at a data center town hall out in Wisconsin. But City & State's Winners & Losers column gave him his due Friday: new Sanitation Department numbers show trash containerization actually knocked the rat population back, proof that leaving bags of garbage on the sidewalk was the problem all along [9]. Somewhere in the five boroughs, a rat just got evicted, and Hizzoner emeritus is taking the win.