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[1] skips WTC Cortlandt in both directions
In Brooklyn, Utica Av-bound [2] and New Lots Av-bound [4] run express from Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr to Crown Hts-Utica Av
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
No [E] train service between Forest Hills-71 Av and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer in both directions while emergency teams respond to a person struck by a train at Sutphin Blvd/Archer Av-JFK Airport.
No [E] train service between Forest Hills-71 Av and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer in both directions while emergency teams respond to a person struck by a train at Sutphin Blvd/Archer Av-JFK Airport.
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 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
Friday's ceremony adds a seventh moment of silence, for people killed by 9/11-related illness, while the federal health program counts only about 3,000 members who were under 21 that day.
A new bell will ring at about 12:30 p.m. at the memorial for the people who died years later from ground zero's ash, days after the city released more than 170,000 pages of records showing officials misled the public about the air [144]. The World Trade Center Health Program, which gives free care for certified 9/11 conditions, is now recruiting people who were children or young adults on 9/11 [100]. A separate youth research study will enroll people who were under 21, or in utero, and were south of 14th Street or in Brooklyn between Sept. 11, 2001 and July 31, 2002 [96].
“Now, close to 25 years later, more people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself.”
“I think there’s a misconception that a lot of people believe the program, the World Trade Center Health Program, is really only for responders,”
“It didn't even cross my mind that the air that I was breathing in could possibly be toxic,”
Gothamist
Politics | Spectrum News NY1About 2,000 two-year-olds started free, year-round 2-K on Thursday, while some providers opened on credit lines because the city has not paid them.
Roughly 2,000 toddlers began 2-K in every borough except Staten Island, in programs running 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. year-round [85]. Some 3-K and pre-K providers are still waiting on contracts and money; Gothamist reports owner Kamila Faruki is owed $1.6 million across four Manhattan centers [90]. Mamdani said the city has registered more than 500 contracts and issued more than 300 interest-free bridge loans, turned around in five business days [88].
“I’m very nervous, but I’m trusting the teachers here,”
“Community-based organizations simply cannot deliver without the payments necessary to pay our staff and keep our doors open,”
“The contracting and payment delays that we’ve seen are unacceptable and do not reflect how the city should be dealing with childcare providers,”
Gothamist
One person has died and five have Legionnaires' disease in Melrose and Morrisania, the city's second cluster this summer.
The Health Department confirmed the cluster in ZIP codes 10451 and 10456 on Thursday night and is awaiting results on other possible cases [99]. Legionella spreads in mist from rooftop cooling towers; any tower that tests positive must be drained, cleaned and disinfected [101]. Every tower in the area has been sampled, with PCR results due within 24 to 48 hours, and anyone there since late August with fever, cough or trouble breathing should see a doctor [103].
“Any New Yorker who either lives, works or has recently visited the affected areas should contact a health care provider as soon as possible.”
“Not really... because the way they handled it in the past, you know what I mean?”
Gothamist
Before 9/11, people called the Sanitation Department to ask about the garbage man with the baritone on their street. Andrew Macchio sang behind his truck, in the locker room and in the shower; "No matter what day, no matter what the weather, he was singing all day long," said Stephen Schmalzried, who sometimes drove his route [109]. Two days after the towers fell, Macchio went downtown and drove a water truck through the dust on Washington Street, singing, then sang at Sunday services at St. Paul's Chapel [109]. He had stage fright and never went pro. He died in 2010 at 64, and his name is on the Sanitation Foundation's memorial to colleagues lost to 9/11 illness [109].