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The West Indian American Day Parade ends early, and still ends in gunfire

The city shortened Carnival, double-barricaded Eastern Parkway and flooded it with cops. Three people were shot anyway, and the people who come every year noticed both halves of that.

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The West Indian American Day Parade ends early, and still ends in gunfire

The city shortened Carnival, double-barricaded Eastern Parkway and flooded it with cops. Three people were shot anyway, and the people who come every year noticed both halves of that.

The 59th annual West Indian American Day Parade ran Eastern Parkway from Utica Avenue to Grand Army Plaza on Monday and was shut down at 5:30 p.m., an earlier finish the NYPD set after six people were shot along the route last year [33][35]. Spectators passed through 13 screening points with metal detectors and no bags, penned behind two rows of barriers [47][32]. Five men were stabbed or slashed near Utica Avenue before J'Ouvert stepped off at 6 a.m., and three people were shot in Crown Heights around 4 p.m., including a 37-year-old woman hit in the leg at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue [16][35].

“I'm seeing less people, less vendors, less bands, less costumes. It's not like it used to be.”

“Security has been getting more and more tight every year, especially this year. You walk around and everywhere you can see the police officers.”

“Thousands of NYPD cops will be on the parade routes and in the surrounding neighborhoods from Sunday night through Monday. This is one of our department's largest deployments of the year at this time.”

By the numbers

• 3people shot Monday, in two separate incidents, versus six shot along the route last year [35]
• 13screening entry points, with bags barred from the route entirely [47][32]
• 5:30 p.m.shutdown, moved up from years past specifically to curb violence [47]

WatchWhether the early finish and the double barricades stay for the 60th parade next Labor Day, and whether the NYPD makes arrests in the Kingston Avenue shooting, where two suspects fled toward Albany Avenue [16].

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Lyft's Citi Bike profit hits $24 million

The bike share you keep paying more to unlock is no longer losing money. It cleared roughly $24 million last year, and the city took a cut of that revenue too.

Lyft's profit from running Citi Bike has grown more than thirteenfold since 2023, according to the two annual financial reports DOT is required to publish and posted online simultaneously last month, first reported by Hell Gate [27]. Citi Bike is a public-private deal: Lyft owns and operates the system under a program agreement with DOT and hands the city a slice of revenue, which is why any of these numbers are public (NYC DOT). Hell Gate credits the fee increases under Mayor Adams and the surge in e-bike trips for most of the swing [27].

By the numbers

• $1.8 millionLyft's Citi Bike profit in 2023, after losing $10.7 million in 2022 (NYC DOT)
• $6.8 millionprofit in 2024, nearly quadrupling in a year [27]
• System revenue grew further in 2025, producing roughly $24.6 million in profit (NYC DOT)
• The city's share of that revenue also grew, up from about $1.4 million in 2021 (NYC DOT)

WatchWhether the profit figure changes City Hall's leverage the next time Lyft raises the per-minute e-bike fee [27].

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The trash-bin grace period ends Tuesday

If you live in a one- to nine-unit building and your can is not the black NYC Bin, sanitation can start writing tickets today.

The Sanitation Department begins enforcing the official NYC Bin requirement on Tuesday for the roughly 750,000 buildings in the city with one to nine units, ending a grace period granted after Council members complained homeowners could not find the bins to buy [5]. Supplies dwindled when the manufacturer declared bankruptcy; sanitation spokesperson Joshua Goodman said the bins remain for sale, and they run about $60 at any Home Depot in the city [5]. The bin is for trash only: compost goes in a clearly labeled container, and recycling still goes to the curb in a clear or blue bag [5].

“What I've seen over the course of the last month is all over Staten Island, people throwing away perfectly good garbage pails because they're not the city-funded garbage pails.”

By the numbers

• $50 to $200the fine range, the higher end for repeat offenders [5]
• 750,000buildings of one to nine units covered [5]
• ~$60the price of a bin at Home Depot, depending on the model [5]

The thread

1. Nov 2024DSNY's first residential containerization rule in more than 50 years took effect, requiring one-to-nine-unit buildings to use lidded bins of 55 gallons or less (DSNY)
2. Jun 2026the official NYC Bin specifically became mandatory for those buildings [5]
3. Todayenforcement begins, with fines starting at $50 [5]

WatchHomeowners who received the STAR property tax exemption credit in the last two years can submit a reimbursement form for their bins [5].

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Around the Boroughs

• Manhattan (Washington Heights): Lovay Williams, 27, was found beaten to death in her West 156th Street apartment, and her father says her 7-year-old daughter witnessed the killing and lay beside her mother's body [15].
• Citywide: The FDNY reported that more than 600 members have died of illnesses tied to their World Trade Center work and nearly 5,000 have been diagnosed with cancer, as former Gov. George Pataki disclosed his own restrictive airway disease [31].
• Brooklyn (Flatbush): Haitian marchers took Eastern Parkway weeks after work permits tied to Haitian TPS expired July 27, a status roughly 163,000 Haitians in the metro area had relied on [44].
• Manhattan (Sutton Place): Speaker Julie Menin is threatening to file an amicus brief backing a lawsuit against Guastavino's, the events venue accused of fencing off a public plaza under the Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge while renting it out for up to $300,000 [20].
• Queens (Astoria): Hartley Bernstein, a securities lawyer disbarred in 1999 and reinstated in 2007, has now sued DOT five times in three boroughs over bike lanes on 31st Street, Court Street and West 72nd Street, and has yet to stop one [25].
• Brooklyn (Coney Island): Five firefighters went to South Brooklyn Health with minor injuries after a two-alarm fire at an auto body shop at 3088 Cropsey Ave. [18].
• Brooklyn (Bushwick): A large tree snapped at its base and fell across 1122 Decatur St. onto several cars; nobody was hurt [19].
• Manhattan (Upper West Side): The Henry, a 45-condo Robert A. M. Stern building at 211 West 84th St., finished construction with what its developer says is Manhattan's first indoor residential pickleball court [21].
• Bronx (Allerton): Permits were filed for a six-story, 28-unit rental building at 2322 Holland Ave., a block from the Pelham Parkway 2/5 station [24].
• Manhattan (East Village): Dongbei Chinese Restaurant & Bar signed a 15-year lease for its fourth city location at 63 Cooper Square, at $21,600 a month [34].
• Manhattan (Midtown): Christie's won unanimous Landmarks approval on July 21 to rebuild its sales room, lobby and entrance canopy at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, with work running through fall 2027 while the house stays open [22].
• Citywide: Menin filed a statewide committee, New York Rising PAC, with the state Board of Elections last week; her spokesman said it is to support Democrats in this fall's midterms, and strategist Hank Sheinkopf told the Post, "Nothing makes better friends than writing a candidate a check from your PAC" [1].
• Queens (Corona): Two immigrant-led costureros, BordeAndo and Las Comadres Bordadoras, are stitching an archive of undocumented women's lives in northwestern Queens community centers, work the Queens Museum exhibited last year [38].
• East Rutherford: The Giants released wide receiver Darius Slayton, their longest-tenured player, taking on $12.75 million in dead cap to free up $3.16 million five days before the opener [55].
• Miami: Jonah Tong struck out seven in five innings in his first start of 2026 and the Mets beat the Marlins 9-4, denting a division rival sitting four games out of the last National League wild card [48][52].

Worth Doing

• Christopher Jackson back in Hamilton: The original George Washington returns to the Richard Rodgers Theatre starting September 8, scheduled through January 3, 2027 [39].
• A free 9/11 memorial concert in Bryant Park: The American Symphony Orchestra plays the Adagio from Mahler's Tenth alongside Copland, Ives and George Walker on September 11, with the same program at the Kupferberg Center in Flushing on September 13 [42].
• Dudamel's first night as music director: The New York Philharmonic opens his tenure at Radio City Music Hall on September 10, hosted by Liev Schreiber with Lizzo, St. Vincent, Aaron Tveit and Joaquina [42].
• Go for a long run: Gothamist mapped 13 free trails across the five boroughs, from the 3.5-mile Siwanoy Trail in Pelham Bay Park to the flat 2.5-mile Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk on Staten Island [36].
• Good to know: New York caps a notarization at $2 per document, and the Kips Bay branch of NYPL plus 15 Brooklyn Public Library locations do it free by appointment; online notarization is capped at $25 and cannot be used for a power of attorney, will or health care proxy [26].

Only in New York

After the towers fell, the artists of the collective Tape Art put 490 life-size tape silhouettes on roll-down gates, mailboxes and construction fences around the city, one for every lost firefighter and airplane passenger, the only counts then set in stone, their taped hands holding up fingers to account for everyone else. It took three years. They spent a fourth building a website for it, launched in 2005 in QuickTime and Flash, and by 2009 the iPhone had made the whole thing unusable and they took it down. Recently a San Francisco tech entrepreneur watched a documentary about them, could not find the site, wrote to founder Michael Townsend, got the archive files, and rebuilt it in under a week with AI. "It has haunted me dearly for years, that it's just been gone from the internet," Townsend said. He was "gobsmacked" when he saw it: "I didn't burst into tears, but darn close." It is back online, in time for Friday [37].