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In Manhattan, no [1] between 34 St-Penn Station and South Ferry
In Manhattan, downtown [2] skips 86 St, 79 St, 66 St-Lincoln Center, 59 St-Columbus Circle and 50 St
Overnight [3] is suspended
Uptown [4][5] trains are delayed while we address a technical problem with our signaling system in Brooklyn.
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions after track maintenance in Queens concluded.
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
[L] trains are delayed in both directions while we address a switch problem at 8 Av.
Yankees61-481
White Sox57-512
Marlins55-552
Mets47-634Yankees61-48
Cubs62-47Marlins55-55Mets47-63
Toronto3-7-7
NYCFC7-4-6
Liberty16-1399
Aces20-8104| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NY | 26 | 18 | 27 | 28 | 99 |
| LV | 27 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 104 |
Two Legionella outbreaks, two very different city responses, and one very clear lesson about which New Yorkers get treated as an emergency.
A seventh person has died in the Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak, which has sickened 92 people in Carnegie Hill and Yorkville since July 2, city officials said Thursday [63]. Across town, tenants at Haven Plaza, an affordable East Village complex, have gone without showers since mid-May after their water system also tested positive for Legionella, and full remediation didn't begin until Tuesday, more than two and a half months after the city's initial order [72]. Haven Plaza tenant leaders say the Health Department moved fast to drain and disinfect Upper East Side cooling towers within days, but let their landlord, Wavecrest Management, stall for weeks [72].
“The community has been at risk for two months and counting.”
“We are saddened to share that a seventh person has died from Legionnaires' on the Upper East Side.”
Gothamist
Hours after a 17-year-old died on an illegal e-moto, the company that sold it just edited the specs and hoped nobody would notice.
Gabriel Nacato, 17, died July 29 on Centre Street near City Hall riding a Deepower e-moto with a 1,500-watt motor, double New York's legal 750-watt cap for e-bikes [51]. Hours after Streetsblog reported the bike's real specs, Deepower changed its website to describe the same model as a legal 250-watt, 20-mph e-bike, even though the device is still listed at its true wattage on other retailers' sites, including Walmart [51]. It's the third New York death this year tied to illegal high-speed e-mobility devices, after Terri Valenti and Dmytro Stechenko. Attorney General Letitia James says she will issue a consumer alert against the devices [16].
“Consumers can't trust the products that they're buying if the company is straight up lying about the capabilities.”
“It's like taking the motor from a super duty truck and putting it into a Honda Civic.”
Streetsblog New York CityThe city built a brand-new tax on second homes, mailed 17,000 warning letters, and still can't tell owners which ones are mistakes.
New York's new pied-à-terre tax began mailing warning notices this week, and Mayor Mamdani and Finance Commissioner Richard Lee couldn't say Wednesday how many of the roughly 17,000 letters went to owners who don't actually owe the tax [3]. City Hall is now hiring 24 new staffers across the Department of Finance and the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings just to field the confusion, at a cost it won't disclose [3]. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, who is also threatening a state constitutional challenge to Mamdani's municipal supermarket plan, has vowed to repeal the tax "on day one" if elected governor [3].
“This reckless tax will drive even more families, jobs, and investment out of our state, and middle-class New Yorkers will pay the price.”
“I understand the concerns that some New Yorkers have that they are facing, and I know that a new tax typically brings more questions than it does answers.”
Somewhere under a rock in Central Park sits a bolt that's 218 years old, a survivor of the 1811 survey that laid down Manhattan's street grid, and New Yorkers lucky enough to stumble on it are bound by an unwritten code: keep the location secret, or somebody will steal it [88]. It's the kind of civic secret only this city keeps, a landmark small enough to hide inside a rock, guarded not by a fence or a plaque but by neighborly omertà.