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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 the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
No [G] between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Sq
No [L] between Broadway Junction and Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
In Manhattan, [N] skips 28 St, 23 St, 8 St-NYU and Prince St in both directions - take the [Q] or [R] instead
In Manhattan, [Q] runs local in both directions between 57 St-7 Av and Canal St
In Manhattan and Queens, [R] runs via Roosevelt Island [F] in both directions between 57 St-7 Av and 36 St
The sheds outside your local aren't coming down after Thanksgiving anymore, and last call under them is now 11 p.m.
The City Council passed a package Thursday ending the seasonal teardown of roadway dining structures, effective immediately. [88] Under the Dining Out NYC program the Department of Transportation runs, roadway cafes could only operate April through November and had to be hauled away and stored, a rule the Adams administration wrote in. Sidewalk cafes were always allowed year-round. The package also tightens sanitation standards with new penalties, and lets owners pay the annual fee in quarterly installments instead of one lump. [88]
“In terms of outdoor dining, this is a lifeline for these restaurants and small businesses.”
“We did hear complaints about rats [and] sanitation issues. So now businesses will get fined if they do not keep these structures clean, free of rats, free of debris and trash.”
“I prefer it go away. It takes up a lot of parking space and there isn't a lot to begin with.”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1Every neighborhood now has a number attached to it, and almost none of them are hitting it.
The housing department released a draft Fair Housing Growth Strategy Wednesday finding the city needs 700,000 new homes over the next decade to fix a 1.4% vacancy rate, the lowest in decades. [113] The report is required by a 2023 Council law that ordered HPD to set five-year production targets for each of the city's 59 community districts. Those targets are suggestions, not mandates, which is the whole fight. Staten Island's Council delegation said the city never consulted residents. [113]
“To overcome our housing crisis, we need every neighborhood in every borough to do its part.”
“Any proposal to build thousands of units of new housing without consulting the local community, and with no plan to address the inadequate infrastructure, flooding, or lack of viable transportation options, is not worth the paper it's printed on.”
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6sqftThe buses meant to replace 5,800 diesels can't stay on the road.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office published an audit Wednesday finding the MTA's pledge to run an all-zero-emission bus fleet by 2040 is "in jeopardy." [114] The agency's plan called for 485 of the next 500 buses by the end of its first stage; one had arrived by last June, and it has since cut its second order in half. [288] The core problem is battery range: a bus has to be 70% charged to leave the depot and returns at 30%, so it gets short routes, and heat and cold shrink that further. [234]
“The electric buses that we have tested so far have not been up to standards. They break down too frequently. We have put the manufacturer on notice.”
“It's not just a New York problem by any stretch of the imagination, but New York should lead the path forward because more riders here depend on buses.”
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A motion-activated camera on the Bronx River caught something in June that nobody has documented on that stretch of water in nearly 100 years: a North American river otter, wet and unbothered, going about its business a few miles from the Cross Bronx. Local scientist RJ Hawkins set the camera. "When I first reviewed the images, I could hardly believe what I was seeing," he said. The river was a dumping ground for a century. Beavers came back in 2007. Now an otter. "This otter's return is a gift, not just to the Bronx River but to the communities that have fought for 50 years to bring this river back to life," said Javier Lopez of the Bronx River Alliance. One animal is not proof of anything. It is still the best thing that happened here this week. [149]