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In Brooklyn, Utica Av-bound [2] and New Lots Av-bound [4] run express from Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr to Crown Hts-Utica Av
Overnight [3] is suspended
[4] trains are running with delays in both directions after we addressed a switch problem at Borough Hall.
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
In Brooklyn, Coney Island-bound [N] local runs express from Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr to 59 St
In Brooklyn, Bay Ridge-bound [R] skips Union St, 4 Av-9 St, Prospect Av, 25 St, 45 St and 53 St
New York City posted more than 170,000 pages of post-9/11 air-quality records online this week, settling two Freedom of Information Law lawsuits brought by 9/11 Health Watch after 25 years of denials.
The records went up as part of a settlement with 9/11 Health Watch, which sued in 2023 and again in 2026 to force the city to show what it knew about the air below Canal Street [10]. Lawyers who have handled 9/11 cases for two decades say the release is unlikely to trigger a wave of new suits, because the federal Victim Compensation Fund is a no-fault program that bars recipients from suing [10]. What it may do is move the map: the VCF covers people who were south of Canal Street through May 30, 2002, and the World Trade Center Health Program reaches as far north as Houston Street, boundaries Rep. Jerrold Nadler said were set by the money available at the time [10].
“The city was making a fiduciary choice to prioritize the economic stability of Lower Manhattan over the health and safety of the firefighters, the police officers, the construction workers, and the children that went back to school down there.”
“It is a shame that Mayor Mamdani is now attempting to score cheap partisan political points by seeming to blame the local officials who rushed to the scene, rather than radical Islam, for September 11.”
Gothamist
Politics | Spectrum News NY1The MTA released station designs for the $5.5 billion Interborough Express, an 18-station light rail line that would carry riders from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Roosevelt Avenue in 32 minutes.
The line would run on existing CSX and Long Island Rail Road freight tracks, which is why it requires no new tunnels [77]. The renderings, shared with Gothamist, show a future station on New Utrecht Avenue in Borough Park with multiple elevators, wider fare gates and digital signage [68]. The next real step is procedural: the state will publish a draft Environmental Impact Statement this fall, which opens the public meetings where Brooklyn and Queens residents can weigh in on the designs before construction [68]. Half the project is funded through the MTA's current capital plan; the rest is not yet identified [68].
“We studied all different technologies. Light rail is the one that moves fastest, and it's going to carry the most people because of the speed that it can move at.”
“But they will remain just drawings on paper until we devote the resources needed to transform them into steel and stone, allowing real New Yorkers to be whisked from Bay Ridge to Jackson Heights.”
Gothamist
New York City's public schools open Thursday under a one-year ban on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, with the city disabling the AI features in 38 programs it already licenses.
The pause covers all student-facing generative AI in elementary and middle schools and most high school classrooms, with carve-outs for AI literacy courses, five vetted high school pilots, and students with disabilities who need the technology to participate [92]. Chancellor Kamar Samuels acknowledged more AI may already be in schools than those 38 programs, because vendors keep adding features in updates [92]. Enforcement falls to teachers, and the Education Department says AI cheating should carry the same consequences as plagiarism [92]. The harder opening-day problem is the buses: officials have warned of yellow bus shortages, and 43% of the 150,000 children who depend on school buses are students with disabilities [91].
“Whether we like it or not, our teenagers are growing up in an AI-saturated world. We cannot pretend that that world does not exist.”
“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.”
Gothamist
Days after the towers fell, public garden designer Lynden Miller got a message from a Dutch flower supplier asking what the Netherlands could possibly do to help. She asked for bulbs, and turned down the offer of tulips: squirrels eat them, and the blooms do not reliably come back. She asked for daffodils instead. When New York Harbor reopened, a ship arrived carrying a million bulbs from Rotterdam, and volunteers put them in the ground in East New York, along Jamaica Bay, in East Harlem, anywhere that had not seen a flower in years. Twenty-five years later, New Yorkers for Parks has planted more than 10 million of them, and another 500,000 go out across the five boroughs next month [111].