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Uptown [1][2] trains are running with delays after NYPD responded to someone being disruptive on a train at Christopher St-Stonewall.
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
No [6] between Hunts Point Av and 125 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
[A][D] trains are running with severe delays in both directions after we addressed a signal problem near 59 St-Columbus Circle.
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions after we performed track maintenance near Briarwood.
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [F] and Church Av-bound [G] skip 4 Av-9 St, 15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
No [L] between Broadway Junction and Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
Brooklyn's biggest private hospital is about to become a public one, and the fight over what that means for Borough Park is not finished.
State regulators unanimously approved New York City Health + Hospitals' merger with Maimonides Medical Center on Thursday, over objections from rabbis and elected officials in Borough Park. The deal was started under Eric Adams and backed by Mayor Mamdani, with Gov. Hochul putting up money to cover the hospital's deficits. The math that makes it work is unglamorous: as a public hospital, Maimonides collects higher Medicaid reimbursement rates than it does as a private nonprofit, H+H president Dr. Mitchell Katz told the state panel, which matters at a hospital where a high share of patients in Borough Park, Bensonhurst and Sunset Park are on Medicaid. [97]
“We're not here to change Maimonides. We're here to support Maimonides.”
“It's a desperate move. A city takeover of Maimonides will cause more problems than it solves.”
“Administrations come and go but the sale is forever.”
Eric Adams bought 350,000 laptops with free T-Mobile service. Two weeks before school starts, principals have to figure out which kids actually need the internet.
Mamdani's Education Department is killing the T-Mobile data plans attached to the Chromebooks Adams bought last year, saying the city was paying for far more coverage than students used. Principals were told Thursday that the plans end Aug. 31 and that they should compile lists of students who actually need service and buy it through an existing Verizon program at $10 per student per month before classes start Sept. 10. Experiences with the laptops varied wildly: at one Manhattan high school about one in five students relied on them for home internet, while a Brooklyn principal said dozens sit unused in a storage room. [87]
“By discontinuing this component of this contract, we are saving taxpayer dollars while continuing to deliver the internet connectivity we know our school communities rely on.”
“It's a tremendous waste.”
“We are two weeks away from school starting, and we do not have a clear AI policy.”
The apartment you didn't move out of last year is the reason the one you want costs more.
RentHop's July read found median one-bedroom rents climbed year over year near 450 of the 473 subway stations it tracks, up from 87% of stops a year earlier. The cause is a turnover freeze: renters are staying put, so fewer cheap listings hit the market and the few that do are expensive, which drags the median up. Only 23 stations got cheaper, and the two sharpest drops were both in southern Brooklyn. [50]
A week after his camera trap caught the first river otter in the Bronx River in a century, wildlife researcher RJ Hawkins checked his footage again and found an American mink, the first official sighting of one on that stretch of water. The mink now shares the river near the Bronx Zoo with the otter and a beaver Hawkins has taken to calling Cardi Beaver, successor to José and Justin Beaver. This is a river that people who grew up in the Bronx in the 1980s remember full of junked cars and tires, cleaned up over decades by neighbors who refused to let it be a dumping ground. "The area is a little hotspot of biodiversity in an otherwise very urban landscape," Hawkins said. "So it's exciting to see just how many species can coexist with us." [98]