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In Manhattan, no [1] between 14 St and South Ferry
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 the Bronx, Manhattan-bound [6] skips Buhre Av, Middletown Rd, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, Zerega Av and Castle Hill 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 the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [F] runs express from Kings Hwy to Smith-9 Sts
In Brooklyn, Bedford-Nostrand Avs-bound [G] skip Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 15 St-Prospect Park and 4 Av/9 St
In Brooklyn, no [J] between Crescent St and Broadway Junction
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
Fourteen people went into New York Harbor after dark Saturday; only twelve came out alive.
A 22-foot bowrider motorboat flipped in New York Harbor off Liberty Island around 10:25 p.m. Saturday with 14 people aboard, and NYPD divers pulled a woman and a five-month-old child from the water and rushed them to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, where both later died, the Post reported [5]. The other 12 people aboard were pulled to safety, and two were still in critical condition when FDNY, harbor, scuba and aviation units first arrived [5][19]. Police had not determined what caused the capsizing as of Saturday night [5]. New York law requires every child under 12 aboard an open boat under 65 feet to wear a Coast Guard-approved life jacket, and everyone aboard a vessel under 21 feet to wear one while underway; at 22 feet, the boat that flipped sat just outside that automatic-adult-wear size cutoff (aceboater.com).
“No. Why? Why? No.”
Tenants who already lost their homes to a Bronx blast now wait to learn if it took a third neighbor, too.
A third body was recovered Saturday from the rubble of Wednesday's explosion and five-alarm fire at an apartment building on East 209th Street in Norwood, the FDNY confirmed, bringing the death toll to three [14][17]. Recovery had been delayed because the blast left the building unstable; fire marshals were still investigating the cause Saturday, and dozens of displaced tenants remain in hotels [14][17]. It's a smaller-scale echo of the 2022 Twin Parks fire four miles south in Fordham Heights, New York City's deadliest apartment fire since 1990, which killed 17 people after malfunctioning self-closing doors let smoke fill the stairwells (Twin Parks fire).
“It's sad. It's traumatizing.”
“We have the same clothes on ever since the fire. And I feel it's unfair, it's really unfair to us.”
GothamistA fight over who chairs an obscure city board could decide how much new affordable housing skips the fight with the neighbors next door.
Council members are balking at Mayor Mamdani's pick to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals, City Planning housing director John Mangin, over his record attacking "wealthy homeowner cartels" that block dense housing, Politico reported, per The Real Deal [3]. The BSA was created in 1916 to grant zoning relief without triggering constitutional takings claims, and under last year's charter amendments it now also fast-tracks 100-percent-affordable projects, requiring a hearing within three months, half the standard ULURP timeline (nyc.gov). Deputy Mayor for Housing Leila Bozorg says Mangin is "exactly the kind of leader" the board needs; Bronx land-use chair Kevin Riley and other members disagree [3].
“On the face of it, a majority of members would be uncomfortable voting for him as it stands now.”
“That is exactly the kind of leader we need at the Board of Standards and Appeals.”
Brooklyn threw the country's first-ever Jamaica Rising Day Parade Saturday, and organizer Bill Tinglin says the idea came to him at Manhattan's Israeli Day Parade, wondering why Jamaica, with "such a strong brand," didn't have one of its own [39][40]. Thousands turned out on Church Avenue, renamed Bob Marley Way for the day, as DJ Danglez spun reggae and dancehall and marchers carried Jamaica's flag four days after its 64th independence anniversary. Tinglin summed up the spirit in patois: "Wi likkle but wi tallawah," we're small but we're mighty [40].