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Uptown [1] trains are running with delays after track maintenance near 137 St-City College concluded.
No [4] trains between Crown Heights-Utica Av and New Lots Av in both directions.
No [6] between Hunts Point Av 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 Brooklyn, Queens-bound [A] local skips Ralph Av, Rockaway Av, Liberty Av, Van Siclen Av and Shepherd Av
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [F] and Church Av-bound [G] skip 4 Av-9 St, 15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
In Manhattan, no [L] between 14 St-Union Sq and 8 Av
The city posted more than 170,000 pages Tuesday, settling two FOIL lawsuits, and among them is a May 2002 note whose author wrote that the word "risk" would not appear in cleanup letters.
The release settles two Freedom of Information Law suits, including one brought by 9/11 Health Watch, and starts a 12-month process of agreed search terms and monthly meetings as more records go up [6]. FOIL is the state law that lets anyone demand a government record and sue when the agency stalls; these requesters spent years doing exactly that. The first batch is built around 68 boxes of Department of Environmental Protection files the city says it located only in August 2025 [6]. Building and staffing the portal took $34 million in this year's budget [12].
“People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air”
“I stressed that we would not use the word 'risk' in any letters as it would defeat the purpose of creating public confidence”
“Everyone knew. And now it's very clear that the city knew as well.”
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Starting Sept. 8, owners of one- to nine-unit homes who put trash bags at the curb without an official black NYC Bin face a $50 fine, rising to $200 for a third offense.
The warning period ended on Labor Day, and Sanitation can now issue summonses [17]. Only regular trash needs the city-branded black bin, which latches and is built for the mechanical tippers going on the backs of collection trucks; compost still goes in any sturdy labeled container with a secure lid, and recycling in a bin or clear bag [17][18]. The bins sell at Home Depot for around $60 and deliver through DoorDash, Instacart and Uber Eats [16].
“We've been giving out warnings since the beginning of June and have given out 32,000 warnings”
“They don't work. It doesn't keep the rats out”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1Students found last year's OMNY cards dead on Aug. 31, ten days before Thursday's first day, and the Education Department and the MTA publish different expiration rules.
DISPUTED: the Education Department's site says the card "doesn't expire until the next school year," while the MTA's says it is valid September through August [80]. Several students told Chalkbeat theirs quit on Aug. 31 [80]. That hits fall athletes commuting to practices before classes begin, and it puts families on the hook for fares they were told they would not pay. An Office of Pupil Transportation staffer told Chalkbeat the cards should expire Thursday, and acknowledged the office was fielding calls about dead ones [80].
“Every year the MTA sends 1.5 million Student OMNY cards, which are valid 365 days a year, for schools across New York City”
For its 17th year, the NYC Unicycle Festival took over 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights this weekend, with a pile of loaner unicycles at one end of the block and a heap of deliberately absurd machines at the other: a unicycle running a race-car wheel, a bike whose steering was wired backwards, tall giraffe unicycles you climb into. David Halper, 21, rode a three-wheel stack he built himself and said he is still scared every time he gets on it. Alessia Succes, 15, who learned at 7, offered the only advice that actually applies: "Don't get discouraged. It's gonna take a long time, but keep going." [130]