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In the Bronx, no [1] at Van Cortlandt Park-242 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
Downtown [A][D] trains are running with delays while we conduct planned track maintenance along the line in Manhattan.
Uptown [E] trains are running with delays while we conduct planned track maintenance along the line in Manhattan.
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [F] runs express from Smith-9 Sts to Kings Hwy
In Brooklyn, Church Av-bound [G] skips 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
She worked one block from where she was killed, and one block from where another nurse at the same hospital died on the same avenue in 2020.
Zheng had just finished an overnight shift and was walking home, six blocks away, when a black Cadillac southbound on Third Avenue hit her in the crosswalk at 55th Street just after 7:30 a.m. Saturday [8][12]. Medics took her to NYU Langone-Brooklyn, the hospital where she worked as a medical-surgical float nurse, and she died there [9][12]. No arrests have been made; the Post reports police sources say the car carried Pennsylvania plates [5]. The stretch of Third Avenue that runs under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a known killer, and a 2023 city plan to redesign it was put on hold under former Mayor Eric Adams [8].
“I heard the bang. Her bag was over here, and they left her there.”
“New York City streets should be the envy of the world, but we are the envy of no one today.”
“Traffic deaths are at historic lows, but one death is still one too many.”
Gothamist
The only IMAX screen in the neighborhood is now owned by a hospital system that will not say what it plans to do with it.
NYU Langone bought 570 Second Avenue for medical ventures, and Assemblyman Keith Powers says his office learned of it only after AMC revealed it was being evicted [30]. Powers, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Rep. Jerry Nadler sent the health system a letter on Aug. 27 asking for a dialogue and expressing hope the 15-screen theater and the neighboring Fairway supermarket could keep operating [30]. The Post reports NYU Langone has not responded to the letter and has provided no details about its plans. That address has held a cinema since 1962, when the Kips Bay Theater opened; AMC moved in in 2006 [30].
“This is the single biggest issue that I have been engaged on in my time both in the City Council and [state] assembly.”
“It seems like they had been hiding something from the community for over a year, and so we wanted to clearly express our right to them to be on the record for the first time with them about exactly what our feelings were on that process and plan.”
An 11-foot sunflower on Classon Avenue is not a fluke; the sanitation department is out shopping for bigger weed whackers.
Weeds are pushing through the pavement, bushes are sprouting out of tree pits and young street trees are growing unusually fast, and city officials say a warm, soaking summer is why [23]. Parks says the mix of warm weather, sun and frequent rain created ideal conditions and that mugwort and other invasive weeds have grown more rapidly this season [23]. Sanitation has redeployed street-cleaning crews to weed-whacking duty [23]. Some of what is coming up is toxic: former Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shared photographs of nightshades and pokeweed in uptown tree pits, including two outside a daycare [23].
“We expect this trend to continue as the climate continues to change.”
“I live in Queens and I have a princess tree that just emerged in my backyard and is over 10 feet tall, just this summer.”
“If you don't manage any piece of soil in New York City, nature takes over.”
Gothamist
About 200 people gathered at the arch in Washington Square Park on Sunday to judge roughly a dozen men on how closely they resemble the mayor. Amadeo Fusca, 40, took the $100 prize in a Knicks jersey tucked beneath a suit jacket, an homage to Mamdani's outfit after the home team's NBA Finals win; rivals turned up in bike helmets, and one nod to the mayor's Mr. Cardamom rap era arrived shirtless in an apron [28]. Fusca, who lives a few blocks from Gracie Mansion, went to his barber the morning after the election and said, "Here, cut my hair, and make me look like this now" [28]. The winner told Channel 7 he just put on his regular garb, kissed his wife, and headed to the park "to be with the people" [34].