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In Upper Manhattan, no [1] between 137 St-City College and 168 St-Washington Hts
No [4] between 149 St-Hostos and 125 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 Queens, no [A] between Rockaway Blvd and Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd Lefferts Blvd [A] trains are rerouted to Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St
Downtown [E][F] trains are running with delays while we continue to address a signal problem at 36 St
In Brooklyn, Church Av-bound [G] skips 4 Av-9 St, 15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
In Brooklyn, no [J] between Crescent St and Broadway Junction
The job is to stand on the tracks and warn the train. Twice in three years, the person doing it had been on the job less than a year.
McCullum, a conductor working as a construction flagger, was placing lights along the D line tracks at the 161 Street-Yankee Stadium station just after 11:30 p.m. Thursday when a Manhattan-bound train hit her [30]. A flagger's whole job is to signal oncoming operators that people are working ahead; an internal MTA report obtained by Gothamist says a supervisor heard the train, the lookout blew the whistle to clear, and McCullum "froze" [27]. The operator told an MTA official he had been warned about flaggers on the track but saw no warning lights, so he drove at normal speed [27].
“This is a difficult day. Last night, we tragically lost a member of our MTA family.”
“She didn't come to work that day to be killed by a train.”
“Everyone was in compliance. Everyone had their protective, their equipment, their flashlight...their vest, the lamps”
Gothamist
One judge, in the next few days, decides whether a million lease renewals already signed at 0% are worth the paper.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Brendan Lantry heard nearly six hours of argument Wednesday over the Rent Guidelines Board's 7-1 June vote to freeze rents on both one- and two-year stabilized leases, the first such freeze in the board's history [48]. The board is the nine-member panel of mayoral appointees that sets the annual increase; the landlords' case is that Mayor Mamdani filled six of those seats and the outcome was settled before the hearings began [48]. Nobody in the courtroom, the lawyers included, could say what happens to tenants who have already signed 0% renewals if the freeze is voided [48].
“There is no rational explanation.”
“It's not easy enough to just say, 'Owners' costs are up and therefore rents have to go up too,'”
A New York hospital system agreed to end a category of care rather than hand its patient files to a grand jury.
Mount Sinai Health System will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors, pay a monetary penalty, and put $2 million toward free medical services for former patients, under a settlement with the Justice Department announced Friday [86]. The system had already quietly stopped prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans and gender-non-conforming children earlier this year without announcing it, Gothamist reported [86]. Attorney General Letitia James' office says it is reviewing the settlement; this week James and other state attorneys general sued the administration over a separate rule cutting federal Medicaid money for the same care [86].
“We entered into this settlement to protect our patients' privacy and to allow our physicians to remain focused on our mission of serving our patients and communities with the highest-quality, world-class care”
“This agreement puts an end to these practices at Mount Sinai and provides meaningful relief for individuals who have already suffered harm.”
“I'm a real person who really benefited from this care, and now there's gonna be real people just like me who are not gonna be able to get it,”
Gothamist
On East 78th Street there is a shop where the bread is the size of a thumbnail and the handbags fit in a doll's closet. Leslie Edelman built a dollhouse for his niece 37 years ago, got hooked, left the law, and now runs Tiny Doll House, where the food, the toys, all of it, is made by hand. His customers run "from 2 to 92," he says, and they walk in carrying stories: the dollhouse they had as a kid, the grandmother's kitchen they want to rebuild at doll scale. Watching kids shop with their own money is his favorite part, because "they become very stingy." Of leaving the law for a room full of tiny furniture: "I love, love, love what I do" [111].