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Downtown [4][6] trains are running on the express track from 125 St to Grand Central-42 St while we perform track maintenance near 125 St.
In the Bronx, no overnight [5] between Dyre Av and E 180 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, no Queens-bound [A] at Spring St, Canal St, Chambers St, Fulton St and High St
[E] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance at World Trade Center.
In the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
Uptown [E] trains are running on the [F] line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to 36 St while we performance track maintenance at W 4 St-Wash Sq.
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 [L] between Broadway Junction and Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
The BQE you drive today is the BQE your grandkids will drive, and the fight now is over a temporary highway on Furman Street.
Mamdani and DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn committed to repairing, not replacing, the triple-cantilever stretch between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street, with construction starting in 2030 and running about a decade [43][44]. To keep traffic off local streets, DOT would build a two-level temporary bypass over Furman Street, below the Promenade, plus a second elevated bypass from Columbia Heights to the Manhattan Bridge [45]. That bypass runs along the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and taking city parkland in New York requires a special alienation bill passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor under Municipal Home Rule Law §40, so Albany, not just the City Council, holds a veto [46].
“This plan allows us to safely fix the BQE without slowing our city down or wasting decades more on magical thinking.”
“Does anybody really wanna see the BQE in the way it is now in our city in 2080?”
“It's a disgrace down there that's crumbling. It's patched up with wire.”
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GothamistThe bodega owners suing City Hall are not arguing about socialism. They are arguing about who can afford to lose money on a gallon of milk.
A coalition of independent grocers filed two suits in state Supreme Court Monday to stop Mamdani's plan for five city-owned supermarkets, one per borough, arguing the discounted stores would gut immigrant- and minority-owned shops and that the city exceeded its authority [54][55]. The Multicultural Business Coalition says the city picked sites "arbitrarily" without serious analysis; the Manhattan store is planned for La Marqueta in East Harlem, blocks from Hispanic- and Korean-owned supermarkets [54]. City officials counter that the municipal stores won't sell cigarettes, prepared food or lottery tickets, the items bodegas actually earn on [54].
“The Puerto Ricans were the bodega pioneers, and they were followed by the Dominicans, the Arabs, the Koreans, the Chinese, and finally my Mexican business members,”
“I'm confident with both the legality of this, that it'll stand up in court and the importance of delivering it,”
Gothamist
Politics | Spectrum News NY1Twenty-two reformers won in June. Tuesday night, the current chair asks an outgoing committee to change who gets to vote.
Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn called a closed executive session for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Mill Basin to adopt rules expanding the party's executive committee, which she says gives Brooklynites a louder voice and which reformers say cancels out the June primary [3][13]. Reform-aligned district leaders won eight of nine contested races and now claim 22 of the 42 district leader seats, enough to elect Julio Peña III chair [3]. A judge declined Monday to block the meeting, calling the reformers' request premature [3].
“We are here because the 2020 MAGA playbook of trying to steal an election is being used not by Donald Trump, but by the Democratic county leader here in Brooklyn,”
“The court's decision confirms what we have said from the beginning: the Executive Committee acted within its authority, and the claims presented in the OSC were not grounded in fact,”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
City & State New York - All Content
At about 4 a.m. last Tuesday, on Seventh Avenue by West 31st Street, roughly five people in dark clothes and headlamps climbed out of a manhole and walked off into Midtown. Ricardy Fabre was waiting in line for concert tickets and caught it on video. "I couldn't believe people would go down there. I couldn't believe how many of them were there. I couldn't believe what they were wearing, and then they had the flashlights attached to their heads," he said [23]. It was the third such sighting since May, after groups surfaced in Gravesend and Williamsburg, and detectives believe some of the climbers are scavenging the city's 7,400 miles of largely 1800s-era sewer pipe for anything worth selling [32]. DEP inspected, found the infrastructure safe, and asked everyone to please stop.