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Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College-bound [2]/New Lots Av-bound [3] trains are delayed while we remove a train with door problem from service at Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr.
Downtown [4][5] trains are running with delays after we moved a train that had its brakes activated at Bowling Green.
In Queens, all Manhattan-bound [7][7X] local/express trains stop at 74 St-Broadway
Uptown [E][F] and Forest Hills-bound [M] trains running with delays after moving a train that had its brakes activated in the tunnel connecting Manhattan and Queens.
[L] trains are running with delays in both directions after we addressed a signal malfunction near E 105 St.
[W] is suspended Take the [N][Q][R] instead
Robert Moses built it for 50,000 cars a day and 50 years. It has carried 130,000 for 70, and the fix will outlast most of the people reading this.
City DOT will rebuild the 0.4-mile triple cantilever between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street rather than remove it, erecting a two-level temporary bypass along Furman Street beside Brooklyn Bridge Park so traffic keeps moving [25][26][27]. The rebuilt structure is designed for another 40 years, to roughly 2080 [27][29]. Officials have not said where the money comes from, only that the city intends to do it without federal dollars and the reviews those trigger [25][26]. One piece of machinery to watch: the plan touches Squibb Park, Hillside Dog Park, Adam Yauch Park and part of Harry Chapin Playground, and under New York's public trust doctrine a city cannot put a non-park use on parkland without an alienation bill passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor (NYS Parks alienation handbook) [27].
“The structure is safe right now. But with the time that it takes to gear up for major work, we really have pretty much run out of time to start to take action.”
“This plan allows us to safely fix the BQE without slowing our city down or wasting decades more on magical thinking.”
Gothamist
Streetsblog New York City
The city wrote the country's toughest cooling-tower rules and then did not have the inspectors to enforce them. Nine people are dead.
Ken Pearl, a 63-year-old history professor who walks the Upper East Side daily, spent July flat on his back as one of 92 people diagnosed in the outbreak [37]. City health officials say they eliminated the source fast; more than 75 towers in the neighborhood tested positive for the bacteria, including at the Guggenheim and the Met [37]. Gothamist reports the health department had filled just 35 of 56 open inspector posts by the outbreak's start, and that about half the cooling towers in the three affected ZIP codes had gone a year or more without an inspection [37]. Cooling towers are the rooftop boxes that vaporize a building's warm water and fan it over the block; unmaintained, they aerosolize Legionella straight into passing lungs [37].
“Why did New York City not do more inspections?”
“We always hold building owners accountable and have stepped up our enforcement this year, dramatically increasing inspections by 35% compared to the year prior,”
“Preventing the outbreak is better.”
GothamistTwo companies outspent every other interest in the state. The one that spent twelve times more got its bill.
Uber and Waymo together reported more than $15 million lobbying state officials in the first half of 2026, per preliminary Commission on Ethics and Lobbying data [5]. Citizens for Affordable Rates, the Uber-backed group behind Gov. Hochul's auto-insurance overhaul, reported $12.7 million, the most of any special interest in the state, and put $12.6 million of it into advertising rather than lobbyists [5]. Waymo, which wanted robotaxis legalized, spent $1.1 million; Hochul dropped that push early [5]. Two of the three insurance changes passed: the roughly 90-day disability standard for serious injury is gone, and a driver found more than half at fault can no longer recover damages at all [5]. Separately, State Board of Elections filings show the group's political committee made $11.97 million in independent expenditures supporting Hochul's primary bid [5].
“You can think of it as legal bribery,”
“Uber is proud to advocate for policies that lower costs for New Yorkers, protect drivers' jobs, and improve access to reliable transportation,”
“The only thing that the governor considers when making decisions is what is best for New Yorkers,”
City & State New York - All Content
At 4 a.m. on a Tuesday, three men in overalls and headlamps hauled themselves out of a manhole at 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue, a block from Penn Station, and walked off into the dark [6][9][13]. The NYPD is investigating, again: similar crews surfaced in Williamsburg and Gravesend this spring, and the leading theory from law enforcement is the most New York explanation possible, that they are treasure hunters combing 7,500 miles of sewer for the rings and wallets this city drops through its grates [6][9]. The Department of Environmental Protection would like everyone to know that sewers contain "noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces" [6]. Inspectors went down after them and found no damage. Whatever the men were after, the pipes are fine.