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In Upper Manhattan, downtown [1] skips 125 St, 116 St-Columbia University, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) and 103 St
Downtown [2][5] trains are running with delays after we moved a train that had its brakes activated near Simpson St.
In Manhattan, [4] runs local in both directions between 125 St and Grand Central-42 St
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
[A][C][D] trains are running with delays in both directions while we conduct planned maintenance in Manhattan.
Uptown [F] trains are running with delays after we moved a train that had its brakes activated near Church Av.
[M] trains are running with delays in both directions after emergency teams responded to someone who was struck by a train at Marcy Av.
No [G] between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Sq
No [J] between Crescent St, Brooklyn and Broad St, Manhattan
Uptown [N][R] trains are running with delays after we addressed a signal problem at Times Sq-42 St.
Uptown [Q] trains are running with delays after we conducted urgent track maintenance near Cortelyou Rd.
The Health Department confirmed a Legionnaires' cluster in ZIP codes 10451 and 10456 that has killed one person and sickened five, and says it has sampled every cooling tower in the affected area.
Legionella grows in the cooling towers that sit on rooftops serving a building's air conditioning, and spreads when contaminated mist drifts down to the street; it does not pass person to person, and residents can keep showering, drinking tap water and running the AC. [83] City law has required monthly Legionella testing and steeper fines for violators since May 8. [88] DISPUTED: Gothamist counts 38 active cooling towers across 26 buildings in the two ZIP codes and found five buildings with no monthly test on record, while Healthbeat counts 27 registered towers, two of them with no sample submitted. [86][88]
“We are launching this investigation to act quickly and lower the risk of additional cases.”
“It's alarming to see this outbreak occur despite the high compliance rate that exists in these ZIP codes.”
“It's just got to be good old-fashioned, you know, out in the streets flyering to say, 'Here's what's happening.'”
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GothamistThe Rent Guidelines Board's 0% increase on roughly a million stabilized apartments takes effect Oct. 1, and Judge Brendan Lantry has not yet ruled on the landlords' suit to throw it out.
The landlords, represented by former first deputy mayor Randy Mastro, argue the June vote was predetermined and politically driven, and want Lantry to call it arbitrary and capricious and order the board to redo its analysis. [47] Here is the machinery that decides it: the city only has to show a rational basis in the record, not that a freeze was the only rational call, which is why courts almost never overturn a board like this. [47] Four lawyers amNewYork asked, including two who side with the landlords, landed in the same place, and none of them could say what happens to leases already signed if the freeze falls. [47]
“I don't think it's a strong claim at all. I'm pretty sure that the landlords are going to lose.”
“Every ounce of me objectively believes that the lawsuit is 100% correct and sound.”
“It would create chaos. Absolute chaos.”
City LimitsAlleva, founded in 1892 and the oldest cheese shop in the country, reopens Sunday in Chelsea Market, three and a half years after pandemic rent arrears ended its 130 years on the corner of Mulberry and Grand.
Owner Karen King bought the shop in 2014 with her late husband, "Sopranos" actor John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia, and closed it in March 2023 after falling behind on rent; her Little Italy landlord then let her break the lease and walk from the back rent. [93] The new shop drops the grocery model for prepared food, with a chef from Livorno and 13 signature sandwiches. [93] The 15-foot street sign is still in storage, but the century-old in-store signs are hung and the phone number is unchanged. [93]
“People came yesterday when I was putting this sign up and they were from the neighborhood and they were screaming and saying how much they missed Alleva.”
“Little Italy was mostly Italian, this is international.”
Imad Innab has run the Eight Street Mini Mart in Park Slope for 39 years, and this summer he got a new cat: Jabal, three months old, white with a smudge of brown on his nose, named for his daughter and for the Arabic word for mountain. Thursday morning, while Innab was setting out the newspapers, the kitten slipped through the door, and the surveillance camera caught a couple walking off with him at 7:18 a.m. Two customers went looking. Ken Park, 69, found the pair in Prospect Park and asked for the cat back; they refused, and the woman kept Jabal inside her jacket. By Friday there were signs with the couple's faces up across the neighborhood. Innab declined to file a police report because he does not want to press charges. He wants the cat. "He's the patron saint of Jimmy's store," said Jason Miller, 50, a long-distance trucker who keeps a photo of Jabal on his phone. "So we want the cat back." [103]