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In Brooklyn, no [3] between Junius St and New Lots Av
In Manhattan, uptown [4] runs local from Grand Central-42 St to 125 St
[5] runs every 12 minutes
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In Upper Manhattan, [A] stops in both directions at 155 St and 163 St-Amsterdam Av
In Upper Manhattan, no [C] between 145 St and 168 St
In Queens, Jamaica-bound [E] [F] local skip Elmhurst Av, Grand Av-Newtown, Woodhaven Blvd, 63 Dr-Rego Park and 67 Av
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [D] runs via the [N] from Coney Island-Stillwell Av to 36 St
In Queens, Manhattan-bound [F] skips 169 St
[M] is suspended - Take the [J] and free shuttle buses instead
No [J] trains between Broadway Junction and Marcy Av
In Queens, Forest Hills-bound [R] skips Elmhurst Av, Grand Av-Newtown, Woodhaven Blvd, 63 Dr-Rego Park and 67 Av
Dodgers62-362
Yankees54-431
Mets41-57
Phillies54-44Dodgers62-36Yankees54-43
Liberty13-11
Fever15-10An engineer stamped a plan requiring steel boxes around two columns. Nobody built them, and the city's own website briefly said so before the line vanished.
Two steel columns buckled on the 21st floor of 235 East 42nd Street, the former Pfizer headquarters MetroLoft and David Werner Real Estate Investments are converting into 1,600 apartments, the city's largest office-to-residential project. GACE Consulting Engineers, which designed the reinforcement, says the steel plates its plans required on floors 19 through 21 were never installed [98]. The Department of Buildings has since deleted a line from its own online complaint log that had blamed the collapse scare on missing steel, and a city criminal inquiry into the incident is open with its scope undisclosed [98].
“The reinforcement from the 19th floor to the top of the 21st floor, which would have significantly increased the columns' strength, was never installed. The structure was not reinforced as GACE's design required.”
“It looked to me that it wasn't there. It didn't look like the drawings did.”
Sixty-seven cases in, the Upper East Side cluster stopped being just a summer scare.
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister F. Martin announced the first death in the Upper East Side Legionnaires' disease cluster Friday, without releasing details out of respect for the person's privacy [58][66]. Confirmed cases reached 67 as of Thursday night, up from 63, with 12 people hospitalized [58]. The city has ordered 76 cooling towers across Carnegie Hill and Yorkville disinfected after they tested positive for Legionella, including towers atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim [66][58].
“I am saddened to report that one person has died in connection with the Legionnaires' disease community cluster on the Upper East Side. My deepest condolences are with their loved ones.”
“As this outbreak continues to impact our community, we must remain focused on the health and safety of our neighbors.”
The bill has a mayor, a majority and a dead tourist behind it. What it doesn't have yet is Julie Menin's final sign-off.
The City Council bill to ban Central Park's horse-drawn carriages, renamed Romanch's Law after the 18-year-old tourist killed falling from one in June, would phase out the roughly 200 jobs tied to the industry's 68 medallions by June 2028 [28]. Speaker Julie Menin said this week the bill's worker-transition protections need to be strengthened before a final vote, even as she remains its most prominent Council backer [28]. Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents the drivers, accused her of political opportunism over the delay [28]. Council Member James Gennaro, who wrote the industry's 2010 reform law, argues in an op-ed that the ban would leave the industry's roughly 160 horses without the money to fund retirements that already cost over $25,000 a horse a year, since Int. 943 bars selling them to other carriage operators [4].
“Deliberately wiping out an entire lawful, regulated industry that supports working families is not compassionate public policy, it is economic self-sabotage.”
Magnolia Bakery is turning 30 this year, and instead of just blowing out candles, the West Village institution is taking its banana pudding on a five-borough farewell tour, handing out limited flavors free at some of the city's most tourist-clogged corners: chocolate hazelnut at The View, red velvet on the Upper East Side, rocky road at Top of the Rock, even a stop at "The Daily Show's" 30th anniversary taping [161]. It's the kind of stunt that only works in a city where a line for free pudding at the Edge feels less like a marketing gimmick and more like a block party nobody planned [161].