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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] skip Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College and Mosholu Pkwy The last stop for some Woodlawn-bound trains is 167 St (days/evenings)
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
[A] trains are running with delays in both directions, severely downtown, after we moved a train that had its brakes activated at Inwood-207 St.
In Upper Manhattan, downtown [D] stops at 135 St
In Brooklyn, no [J] between Crescent St and Broadway Junction
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NYCFC7-4-63Two relatives are dead, a rowhouse is gutted, and the only person who can explain what happened is the man police just shot.
Police responding to a 911 call near Ocean Crest Boulevard in Far Rockaway just before noon Saturday found Kegan Thomas's wife outside, warning that her 33-year-old husband was armed and had a history of mental illness before he "killed them" [13]. As an NYPD Emergency Service Unit prepared to force entry, an explosion tore through the rowhouse; Thomas emerged in a bulletproof vest with a shotgun and extra ammunition and was shot after ignoring repeated commands to drop the weapon [11][13]. Officers found two people dead inside, identified by police sources as Thomas's mother-in-law and sister-in-law [11]. The blast also damaged neighboring rowhomes, and displaced residents were cared for by the Red Cross [13].
“The caller stated that her husband was armed and had a history with mental illness.”
“As we learn more about the victims, who did not make it, we will certainly work with the community to figure out anything that the community needs.”
Gothamist
Julian Pagan told his father to expect him back at Rikers, then died in a courthouse holding cell before he ever got there.
Julian Pagan, 29, was found unresponsive in a Bronx courthouse holding cell Friday evening, hours after his arraignment, and was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital at 6:37 p.m., the Department of Correction said [15]. His Legal Aid attorney says he showed no sign of a medical emergency in court that day, and grew distressed on learning he'd be sent back to Rikers [15]. He is the fifth person to die in, or shortly after leaving, city correction custody this year [15].
“Mr. Pagan's family deserves answers. No family should be left to learn that a loved one entered the City's custody alive only to be told hours later that he had died.”
GothamistThe last cheap way to own in New York is getting squeezed by fuel bills and insurance premiums now, not rent.
The Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums told Mayor Mamdani that insurance, fuel and maintenance costs, not rent, now threaten the city's roughly 729,000 co-op and condo households [19]. Its study of 1,200-plus buildings found insurance rates more than doubled and fuel, maintenance and taxes each rose at least 20%, 2019 to 2024 [19]. The group wants City Hall to consolidate the 100-plus local laws hitting co-op boards, chief among them Local Law 97, the 2019 emissions-cap measure passed under Mayor de Blasio's Green New Deal (Local Law 97 of 2019, Wikipedia), and to let boards spend fine money on retrofits with penalties capped at 2034 levels instead of rising through 2050 [19].
“Absent government action, many co-op and condo homeowners will be hardpressed to pay their carrying charges, undermining the financial viability of their co-ops and condos and accelerating the erosion of affordable homeownership.”
Gothamist
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie runs one of Albany's toughest rooms, wrangling more than 100 members' worth of competing demands through every budget fight with Gov. Hochul and Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. His secret weapon these days is a goldendoodle named Paisley, technically barred from the Capitol under a rule nobody enforces, who now wanders the halls by the Assembly chamber. "That dog is the love of my life," Heastie says [6]. Retiring Assemblymember Deborah Glick says Paisley gives the speaker "a little touch of reality," the reminder that after all the pressure there's still a walk, dinner, and a dog jumping up to lick your face [6]. Heastie met the breed through a stranger while campaigning for Kamala Harris in Arizona in 2024; the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, where he later found Paisley, just got a $1.2 million boost from the state budget he helps write [6].