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[2] runs every 24 minutes between Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College and Chambers St
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
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
Uptown [D][N] trains are running with delays after we addressed a signal problem near 9 Av.
[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
Seventeen bills, one Sept. 30 hearing, and a mayor who says his focus is only on what's already illegal.
Council Speaker Julie Menin unveiled 17 bills Tuesday to rein in e-bikes and e-scooters after a summer of fatal crashes, including 17-year-old Gabriel Nacato's death on an illegal e-moto near City Hall [66][60]. The package would ban sale of fast Class 3 e-bikes and force delivery apps to get city licenses and share trip data [60]. Mayor Mamdani said his priority stays on devices "already illegal," stopping short of endorsing the Council's wider plan [61].
“We cannot go on like this; we cannot wait again for tragedy to strike to become advocates for public safety.”
“My sister was healthy, 43-year-old, jogging in the park... now she's been in a hospital bed for, going on four weeks, doesn't really remember her name most of the time or who we are.”
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City & State New York - All ContentICE quietly stopped counting some of its own dead, and a congressman found out anyway.
Rep. Rob Menendez said Monday that a third detainee has died at Delaney Hall, a death ICE never disclosed because it quietly stopped reporting deaths that occur within 30 days of a detainee's release from custody [35]. The disclosure came the same day as news that a second detainee, Salvadoran landscaper Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 39, collapsed and died Saturday after his lawyers had already sued over inadequate medical care there [35][21].
“The ICE field office in Newark makes a determination to provide a discretionary release in which the individual is released to University Hospital... Because of the release, they were technically no longer in ICE custody, which is why there's no notification.”
“I will not let his story be unheard, I want his voice to be heard loud and clear.”
The city just proved the demand is real. It hasn't proved it can pay for it.
More than 5,700 families applied for New York City's first 2,000 free 2-K seats, nearly three applicants per spot, Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul said Tuesday [94]. Days earlier, Simone Hawkins, the deputy chancellor who built the 2-K program since 2024, announced she is stepping down in September with no successor named [89]. A new study estimates full universal childcare would cost $8.7 billion to $9.3 billion a year, well above Mamdani's own $6 billion figure [85][92].
“The overwhelming demand for 2-K shows what families across the city have known for years: New Yorkers need free, universal child care, and they need it now.”
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Gotham Whale, a Staten Island-based nonprofit that tracks humpbacks by their tail flukes the way police track fingerprints, confirmed this week that New York's waters have now hosted 500 documented whales since it started counting in 2012 [105]. "Every whale documented is another giant step toward understanding and protecting the remarkable wildlife living just beyond New York City's skyline," said the group's board vice president, Paul "PJ" Sieswerda [105]. Somewhere out past the Verrazzano, a 40-ton animal is doing laps in sight of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the harbor that once ran too filthy for fish is now clean enough to feed it.