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In Manhattan, uptown [2] local skips Franklin St, Canal St, Houston St and Christopher St-Stonewall
No [4] between Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and Crown Heights-Utica Av/New Lots Av
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
Brooklyn-bound [A][F] trains are running with delays after track maintenance near Fulton St concluded.
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
In Upper Manhattan, downtown [D] stops at 135 St
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [F] and Church Av-bound [G] skip 4 Av-9 St, 15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
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Sparks10-16The city marked the end of legal status for tens of thousands of its Haitian residents by putting one of them in charge of a law-enforcement agency.
Temporary Protected Status expired nationwide for Haitians on July 27 after the Supreme Court's Mullin v. Doe ruling barred courts from reviewing DHS's decision to end it [7][23]. About 56,800 Haitian TPS holders live in New York state, concentrated in Brooklyn's Little Haiti [7]. The same day, Mayor Mamdani swore in Edwin Raymond, a former NYPD lieutenant and prominent internal critic of the department, as the city's first Haitian sheriff [7].
“Anyone who thinks that they can push Haitian New Yorkers out of this city, out of this country — ask me where Haitian New Yorkers are going to go. I tell them the only answer is up.”
“Their lives will be upended today.”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
The mayor's fix for grocery sticker shock won't ring up a single sale until 2027 at the earliest.
Mamdani announced a 30% discount on produce, meat and seafood at the city's five planned municipal grocery stores, funded by $70 million in capital money, with the first opening at Hunts Point's Peninsula site in 2027 [20][25]. The city opened an RFP for private operators to run daily operations rent-free on city land [20]. Bodega owners warn the subsidized competition could shutter their stores [20].
“A trip to the grocery store shouldn't spell dread for New Yorkers.”
“He will compete directly with the bodegas and supermarkets where they have been established for many years.”
GothamistPolitics | Spectrum News NY1
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City inspectors are still finding buildings that skipped legally required Legionella tests as the death toll climbs.
A fifth person died and confirmed cases reached 89 in the Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak that began July 2 [65][69]. Culture tests found live Legionella bacteria in 56 cooling towers across the outbreak zone; only 52% of those towers had been inspected in the past year despite a city law requiring annual checks [65]. Speaker Julie Menin has accused the health department of moving too slowly to disinfect towers and warn residents [69].
“Remediation and enforcement strategies likely stopped the bacteria from spreading early.”
“It's a long recovery. But you can recover, because I'm living proof of that.”
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Two Instagram-famous daredevils scaled the Empire State Building's spire this month to get engaged more than 1,000 feet up, got arrested for it, and are now publicly thanking the Manhattan DA's office for handing back the ring. "We got the ring back!" Angela Nikolau posted, alongside their recovered bank cards and passports and a close-up of the ring's engraving: "Your full potential is on the other side of fear." They still face felony charges and an August court date, but for one week in New York, the romance beat the burglary rap [31].