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Partly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers
41% chance of rain
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
8 Av-bound [L] trains are running with delays after NYPD responded to someone being disruptive on a train at Bushwick Av/Aberdeen St.
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [Q] skips Avenue U and Neck Rd
A man barged into Friday night services shouting slurs, and by Saturday the mayor, the police commissioner and the City Council speaker were all promising the same thing: it can't happen again.
Larry Montes, 46, stormed into Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue during Friday night Shabbat services, screamed his way toward the bimah and struck a 63-year-old congregant in the face before spitting on and headbutting a member of the synagogue's security team [8][15]. Prosecutors say Montes told police the congregants were "swine" and "fake Jews" and admitted the attack was religiously motivated [8]. An NYPD sergeant working a paid detail arrested him on the spot; he faces 14 charges, including four counts of assault as a hate crime [15].
“This despicable act has no place in our city, and our administration will do everything in our power to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe.”
“Right now, the Jewish communities are in tremendous pain.”
Gothamist
Seven hundred officers and a shuttered street are the city's answer to a teenage crowd that turned deadly once already this month.
A crowd that splintered off from the Dominican Day Parade onto Dyckman Street in Inwood turned violent on Aug. 9, when 23-year-old Steven Bodnar was stabbed in the stomach during a brawl and later died [16]. With a flyer for "Dominican Dyckman Takeover Pt 3" still circulating online, the city is deploying roughly 700 officers across Washington Heights and Inwood this weekend and closing Dyckman Street end to end [12][16]. Council Member Carmen De La Rosa said the parade itself "went off without a hitch," but the after-crowd safety plan broke down as visitors poured in from Connecticut and Long Island [16].
“There was a breakdown of that plan, in my opinion, as well as a capacity issue where our community was overrun with hundreds and hundreds of people from Connecticut, from Long Island.”
Gothamist
El Diario NYThe city's newest tax on second homes is on ice, and City Hall is racing an appeal to keep the freeze from sticking.
A state Supreme Court judge in Staten Island issued a temporary restraining order halting the rollout of New York City's pied-à-terre tax, ordering the Department of Finance to pull its list of roughly 900,000 potentially taxable properties from public view and to pause collection efforts and appeal deadlines until an Aug. 31 hearing [30]. The suit, brought by former Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro on behalf of three homeowners, argues the city skipped legally required steps for identifying second homes before taxing them [30]. The city has filed to appeal, a move that keeps the judge's order from taking effect while the case proceeds [30].
Somewhere on the bridge over Newtown Creek this week, a flock of geese decided the crossing between Brooklyn and Queens belonged to them, waddling through traffic while drivers hit the brakes, rolled down their windows and filmed like tourists in their own commute. They have no idea there's a poultry slaughterhouse on the other side. New York will stop for almost nothing, but it'll stop for that. [33]