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In Manhattan, no [1] between 14 St and South Ferry
[2] trains are running with delays in both directions after a rail replacement near 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza concluded.
[3] is suspended
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
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
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
Nobody had died on a Central Park carriage ride in over 150 years, until a spooked horse and a stray current changed that.
The family of Romanch Mahajan, 18, killed when a horse bolted near Cherry Hill Fountain in June, filed four notices of claim seeking $105 million from the city, alleging agencies never fixed a known stray-voltage problem there [17][12]. Con Edison says it found only "very low levels" of voltage in July testing and traced it to nothing on its own equipment [12]. Attorney Sagar Chadha calls it "an avoidable accident" [17].
“This was an avoidable accident.”
“We've observed very low levels of stray voltage on July 16 and July 23.”
Gothamist
A guy who once branded wealthy homeowners a "cartel" now needs half the Council to referee their zoning fights.
Mayor Mamdani nominated City Planning housing director John Mangin in June to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals, the panel that grants zoning variances only when an applicant proves five hardship "findings," typically after community-board review (Capalino). Council members are balking over a 2014 article where Mangin branded homeowners opposing density "wealthy homeowner cartels" [3]. Speaker Julie Menin calls the council "pro-housing," but says a majority "would be uncomfortable" confirming him as things stand [3].
“We represent these communities. We have to go back to these communities and realize what our communities need.”
“We are in the midst of a housing affordability crisis, we desperately need a leader like John Mangin.”
The toll didn't dirty the outer boroughs the way critics warned, and it didn't clean Manhattan's air the way boosters hoped, either.
A first-year review by the city Health Department found congestion pricing's $9 peak-hour toll left New York's air quality essentially unchanged, with pollution levels flat or slightly better across the city, Gothamist reports [33]. The finding cuts against a Columbia University study that found pollution rising in the South Bronx, whose Cross Bronx Expressway corridor has some of the nation's highest asthma rates, and complicates a separate Cornell finding of cleaner air in Lower Manhattan [33]. The department tracks particulate matter and ozone, not greenhouse gas emissions [33].
“New Yorkers deserve to know how major policies affect the air they breathe.”
“Before we turned the cameras on, there was concern about the potential for increased pollution... that didn't happen.”
Gothamist
Two of the more storied wooden ships in America sank within days of each other this summer in the muck of the Gowanus Canal, and the Brooklyn restaurateur brothers who own them may just let them be scrapped into garbage rather than pay to raise them. One is the Victory Chimes, the last surviving Chesapeake Ram schooner, a National Historic Landmark that once graced Maine's state quarter; the other is the Pilot, a 1924 research vessel Jacques Cousteau once sailed. "Total demolition. Garbage," one insider said of the plan for two grand old boats whose last job was a floating oyster bar in a polluted Brooklyn inlet [27].