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Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
54% chance of rain
In the Bronx, no [1] at Van Cortlandt Park-242 St
Uptown [2] trains are running with delays after we addressed a signal problem at Clark St.
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
Downtown [A][D] trains are running with delays while we conduct planned structural maintenance in Manhattan and address a signal problem near 81 St.
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions after we addressed a switch problem earlier near 21 St-Queensbridge.
In Brooklyn, Church Av-bound [G] skips 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
The city had $294 million to rebuild the East River esplanade, then one agency would not close a lane of the FDR and half the project vanished.
The Parks Department and Economic Development Corporation told Community Board 11 they will no longer rebuild 11 blocks of the Bobby Wagner Walk between E. 94th and E. 105th streets, and that the new pier at E. 107th Street will not get the promised restroom, Streetsblog reported [28]. The reason: the Department of Transportation would allow crews to stage in only one lane of the six-lane FDR Drive, and only nights and weekends, so most of the work has to be built off platforms in the East River [28]. The water beside the walkway is too shallow for barges [28]. Those 11 blocks now get their holes patched instead.
“I cannot even express how insulting that is, particularly to the East Harlem community”
“The overwhelming majority of the project is going to have to be constructed from the water side,”
DOT spokesperson Vin Barone wrote that it would be false to blame the cost "solely on FDR closures," and referred further comment to Parks, which cited tariffs and maritime construction costs [28]
Streetsblog New York CityFilings jumped in the borough with the fewest homeowners, and it traces back to old tax debt the city sold off years ago.
First-time foreclosure filings in the Bronx hit 109 in the second quarter, up from 57 a year earlier and a seven-year high, according to PropertyShark data [23]. Citywide, filings fell over the same stretch [23]. Christie Peale, who runs the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, told Gothamist the spike traces to a trust created years ago to buy tax liens from the city, which has started foreclosing on debts going back a couple of years [23]. Here is the machinery a homeowner rarely sees until it lands: miss a mortgage payment and your lender starts foreclosure by filing a lis pendens with the court, and an unpaid property tax bill can travel the same road once the lien is sold to somebody else [23].
“there is a marked increase in tax-lien foreclosures that were initiated by a trust that was created years ago to buy tax liens from the city”
GothamistSeven years, 2,297 performances, and the highest-grossing run in the Hirschfeld's century end tonight.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical plays its final performance August 30 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, ending a run that opened in July 2019 [38]. Christian Douglas returns as Christian for the closing show, with Kelsie Watts as Satine and original cast member Ricky Rojas as Santiago; Aaron Tveit, who won a Tony creating the role, came back for a limited engagement that ran August 18 to 29 [38]. It leaves as the 36th longest-running show in Broadway history, and the only show that opened that season still running [38].
“It's truly been the honor of a lifetime bringing this exceptional show to Broadway.”
Before Ridgewood was Ridgewood, it was East Williamsburgh, and in November 1861 a brewer named John Welz paid $840 for four acres at Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenues, $210 an acre, on land carved out of the Nicholas Wyckoff farm [39]. He built the High Ground Brewery there, and it grew into Welz & Zerweck: 500,000 barrels a year at its peak, 200 men on the payroll, a supply depot in Coney Island to keep the amusement parks pouring, and a five-year lease on Glendale Schuetzen Park signed mainly so nobody could serve a rival beer [39]. At the first National Schuetzen Fest in 1895, about 30,000 people worked through roughly 1,500 half-barrels in a single day [39]. Prohibition finished it. The brewery sold in 1925, most of it came down, and an RKO movie palace went up on the bones [39]. The corner is still there. The beer is not.