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43% chance of rain
[2] service operates in two sections: 1. Between Flatbush Av and Chambers St 2. Between Wakefield-241 St and Chambers St and via the [1] to/from South Ferry
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
In the Bronx, Manhattan-bound [6] skips Longwood Av, E 149 St, E 143 St, Cypress Av and Brook Av All trains board from the uptown platform at 3 Av-138 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
Uptown [A] trains are running with delays after a rail replacement near 59 St-Columbus Circle concluded.
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions after track maintenance in Queens concluded.
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 [N] service in Manhattan
[Q] service is rerouted via the [D] and [F] in Manhattan
No late night [R] between Whitehall St-South Ferry and Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr [R] runs express between Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr and 36 St
Your third grader will do the hard part themselves this year, because the city just turned the machines off.
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI from 2-K through eighth grade, plus a ban on companion chatbots at every grade [67]. The Education Department is switching off AI features inside software already in classrooms, including the reading tutor Amira and the digital Houghton Mifflin Harcourt curriculum; products that cannot disable the feature get pulled [69]. Kids through second grade lose one-to-one devices entirely [69]. Enforcement is the soft spot: Mamdani conceded much of it happens at the classroom and school level, and any new ed-tech request under $25,000 now gets extra review from the department's IT, legal and contracts teams [69].
“Children need their teachers and human connection in order to learn and in order to grow.”
“If we are going to be serious, let's start at the source, rather than expect school communities or individual educators to figure out after the fact if what their school uses fits the new policy,”
6sqftOne block held up 5.5 miles of protected bike lane for three years. It got painted this week.
DOT crews painted a two-way parking-protected bike lane on Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place, the one block left out of the street's 2023 redesign [57]. Cyclists called the gap "Crashland" because the old design forced them into contention with cars and trucks between two bad intersections [55]. Streetsblog reported the block was removed at the behest of developer Two Trees Management through Adams adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who separately faces bribery charges over the McGuinness Boulevard redesign [55]. The fill-in completes a continuous protected corridor from Sunset Park to Dumbo, and an upgraded Lafayette Avenue lane now links it across Flatbush to Schermerhorn Street [57].
“Today, I'm proud we're all able to stand here and look upon a transformed Ashland Place, a street that's now built for all New Yorkers on all modes of transportation”
“We've lost nine neighbors to hit-and-runs last month alone.”
6sqftEleven people died on the Upper East Side and the city still cannot say which rooftop killed them.
The Council's health committee spent Wednesday questioning Health Commissioner Alister Martin about the summer's Upper East Side outbreak, opening with testimony from families of the dead [9]. The disease spreads through mist from rooftop cooling towers, the water-and-fan boxes that dump heat off big buildings' air conditioning; owners have had to register every one with the Health Department since Local Law 77 passed in August 2015, after Legionella turned up in South Bronx towers (NYC Health). Martin said the city ordered every positive tower drained and disinfected rather than waiting on slower culture results [17]. Community Board 8 chair Valerie Mason testified that the mayor, who lives in the affected area, attended no town hall and no board meeting [3].
“My heart was breaking watching him suffer,”
“What we're trying to get to here is, why there wasn't enforcement when we knew summer months were coming”
“We ordered building owners to fully drain, clean, and disinfect their cooling towers, and all of them complied,”
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The Brooklyn-based American Princess was 100 miles out at the Hudson Canyon, on the tail end of a 24-hour trip, when a 20-ton whale shark rolled up alongside and showed off its spotted back to a deck full of New Yorkers. Then it happened again. "It was nuts! There were a lot of birds feeding and then next thing you know this massive whale shark comes right up next to us in that crystal clear blue water," said Chris St. Lawrence, the naturalist who had spent the whole night telling everyone aboard that this was the one thing he wanted to see. The largest fish on earth is endangered, spends nearly its whole life below the surface, and picked the day after International Whale Shark Day to surface for a boatload of people from Queens [77].