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[1] trains are running with delays in both directions after a rail replacement near 181 St concluded.
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] skips Burnside Av
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, downtown [D] stops at 135 St
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [F] runs express from Kings Hwy to Jay St-MetroTech
In Brooklyn, no [G] between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts and Church Av Trains run every 20 minutes between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts
In Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, [Q] runs via the [R] in both directions between Canal St and DeKalb Av
Marlins58-552
Mets47-660
Yankees63-492
Cubs63-491
Cardinals55-57Yankees63-49
Storm6-25
Liberty17-13Two of Chelsea's oldest public-housing campuses are about to become the city's biggest rebuild of public housing at once, block by city block, without emptying a single building first.
HUD approved redeveloping NYCHA's Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, two Manhattan campuses spanning West 16th to West 19th Streets and West 25th to West 27th Streets, first announced in June 2023 [22]. Developer Essence Development and Related Companies, working with architects PAU, COOKFOX and Ismael Leyva, will replace all 2,056 existing apartments one-for-one in new NYCHA buildings, then add 3,454 more mixed-income units, for up to 5,510 total and up to 3,094 permanently affordable [22]. More than 4,500 residents live across the two campuses, in buildings dating to 1947, 1964 and 1965, and only 6% will need to move temporarily during construction [22].
The woman who built Mamdani's signature childcare promise from scratch is walking away two days before the first families find out if they got in.
NYC Public Schools Deputy Chancellor Simone Hawkins, who has run early childhood education since 2024 and built Mayor Mamdani's free 2-K program for 2-year-olds, is stepping down in September, city officials confirmed [34][32]. Families are expected to get their first 2-K offers Aug. 4, days before her exit becomes official, as the program prepares to open its first 2,000 seats this fall [34]. City officials did not say why she's leaving or name a successor [34][32]. Hawkins had also steered the city through a 2022 payment-delay controversy in an earlier Education Department role [34].
“Deputy Chancellor Hawkins was one of the few people who could tame it.”
“Over the past two years as Deputy Chancellor, we've improved practice, launched 2-K, a historic program that will deliver affordable child care for New York City families.”
Gothamist
Starting today, you can enter the lottery to pitch a tent in Central Park. The city's Urban Park Rangers run a free overnight camping program, tents and night hikes included, that has quietly operated for more than 20 years and drawn as many as 300 applicants for just 30 spots at a time [40]. It is, by the Rangers' own admission, not the best camping New York has to offer. "There's much more of a camping experience if we were to go to Alley Pond or Van Cortlandt or anywhere else that's not one of those hustle-and-bustle main flagship parks in New York," said Marc Sanchez, the program's director [40]. And yet Central Park remains the most requested spot in the lottery, because somewhere between the traffic on Fifth Avenue and the skyline over the Ramble, sleeping under real stars in the middle of Manhattan never stops feeling like a magic trick.