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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
[3] is suspended
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
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, Coney Island-bound [F] runs express from Jay St-MetroTech to Kings Hwy
In Brooklyn, no [G] between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts and Church Av Trains run every 20 minutes between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts
No [J] between Crescent St, Brooklyn and Broad St, Manhattan
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [Q] skips Avenue U and Neck Rd
Nine people are now dead from a cooling tower nobody has identified yet.
Two more people died in the Upper East Side Legionnaires' disease cluster, the city Health Department confirmed Friday, pushing the toll to nine and surpassing last year's Harlem outbreak, which killed seven [81][80]. Both deaths were diagnosed weeks ago; officials say the contaminated cooling tower has been eliminated but still haven't confirmed which one caused it [81].
“We mourn each loss, and our hearts are with their loved ones.”
“How many more New Yorkers must die before the city and cooling tower owners act to stop these recurring, preventable deaths?”
“Nine people have now tragically lost their lives in connection with this devastating outbreak.”
Gothamist
A tax on second homes worth $5 million-plus almost died before its first bill arrived.
An appellate judge quashed a Staten Island judge's temporary restraining order Thursday, clearing New York City to keep billing owners under its new pied-à-terre tax through the Aug. 31 deadline [60]. The rollout stumbled first: the city sent warning letters to 17,000 owners without first pulling their state income tax filings, and by Tuesday had already cleared 1,906 of them, 45% of those who contested, as wrongly flagged primary residences [60].
“It's overbroad. It's scary. It's requiring people to provide information the government already has.”
“They appear to have intentionally overincluded sending threatening notices to New York City homeowners that they're going to be presumed to owe the tax unless they prove to the city they don't.”
The president came to Nassau to talk crime and left talking sanctuary law.
Trump rallied with Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman at the Nassau County Police Academy Friday, touting new FBI data showing violent crime fell 9.3% nationwide in 2025 and calling New York's sanctuary law "seditious" [16][10]. A new Siena poll shows Hochul leading Blakeman 49% to 39% among likely voters, half the 20-point margin she held in June [18][7].
“Kathy Hochul, where do you want those guns? What neighborhood do you want to destroy?”
“Blakeman is actually embracing ICE's aggression, while Governor Hochul is fighting to make sure local law enforcement is focused on keeping all of our community safe.”
Gothamist
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Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash made his Broadway debut Wednesday night, stepping onstage at the Palace Theatre as a member of the in-show boardwalk band in "The Lost Boys" and playing the same solo he cut for the show's pre-Broadway EP [108]. Only in New York does a rock legend's first Broadway bow happen inside a musical about teenage vampires, on a random Wednesday nobody saw coming.