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[2] runs every 24 minutes between Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College and Chambers St
No [4][6] train service between Grand Central-42 St and Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall in both directions while FDNY responds to a report of smoke at Astor Place.
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 the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 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
No [N] service in Manhattan
[Q] service is rerouted via the [D] and [F] in Manhattan
No late night [R] between Whitehall St-South Ferry and Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr [R] runs express between Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr and 36 St
Cardinals56-5713
Yankees63-507
Mets47-66
Guardians57-56Cardinals56-57Yankees63-50
Storm6-2683
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The city sent 17,000 letters accusing homeowners of owing a new tax, and a chunk of them had lived in the same house since before some City Council members were born.
The Department of Finance mailed roughly 17,000 letters warning homeowners they may owe the new pied-à-terre surcharge, drawn from a public roll of nearly 900,000 properties that included the Flushing home of Mamdani's own finance commissioner and a Park Slope row house owned by former Mayor Bill de Blasio [4]. Longtime residents like Gail Gregg, in her Upper West Side co-op since 1992, and Council Member Gale Brewer's Upper West Side constituents got warning letters despite living there full time [4][58]. Facing backlash, Mamdani extended the exemption deadline from Aug. 21 to Sept. 18 [58][61][79].
“They have to fill out paperwork and call lawyers and pay them to get help with old documents. They live here full time.”
“I think, first and foremost, that I understand the concerns New Yorkers have, especially when it comes to a new tax.”
6sqft
One sentence in a 51-page ruling let ICE keep its masks on; the next sentence told local police they still can't help ICE at all.
U.S. District Judge Mae D'Agostino issued a preliminary injunction Monday blocking New York's law banning ICE agents from wearing masks, ruling the state can't regulate the safety practices of federal officers [17][26]. But she let stand the state's separate ban on local 287(g) cooperation agreements with ICE, agreeing it was "an appropriate means of furthering New York's legitimate interests in protecting public welfare and choosing how state and local resources are expended" [22]. The Trump administration had sued to block both provisions [17].
“New York's ban on 287(g) agreements is legal and will keep our communities safe. Local law enforcement should be focused on local matters.”
“Blue states continue to stack losses as they try to pass unconstitutional bans on ICE officers wearing masks.”
Gothamist
Politics | Spectrum News NY1More than 400 people who represent New Yorkers who can't afford a lawyer are the ones currently without a paycheck.
More than 400 attorneys, social workers and staff at The Bronx Defenders entered a second week on strike Monday, alongside an 11th day of picketing at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, the longest public defender strike in the city since Legal Aid Society attorneys walked out for 10 weeks in 1982 [18][20]. Brooklyn Defender Services ended its own four-day strike July 21 after reaching a deal [18][20]. The fight centers on decoupling attorney and social-worker pay, which would cut social workers out of a $10,000 starting raise for lawyers even after this year's $32 million city funding boost [thread].
“We want to serve our community, we want to serve the Bronx, and we can only do that if we are able to stick around to do this work in the long term. Without a fair contract, it's just not accessible to us.”
“It's really, in a bigger sense, connected to the same politics and message that have led to Zohran being elected.”
Gothamist
Hell Gate
Five window washers at Maimonides Medical Center traded squeegees for Batman, Spider-Man and Wolverine costumes and rappelled down from the roof to the pediatric unit's sixth-floor windows, the kind of stunt that only works in a city with enough skyscraper window-washing crews to spare a few for cosplay. They spent the morning visiting sick kids in the 25-bed pediatric unit, including a 5-year-old who got a pair of Wolverine's claws to take home [120].