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Downtown [1][2] trains are running with delays after a rail replacement near 59 St-Columbus Circle concluded.
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
No [7] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and 34 St-Hudson Yards, Manhattan
In Manhattan, no [A] between 59 St-Columbus Circle and Inwood-207 St
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
No [D] between 59 St-Columbus Circle, Manhattan and 161 St-Yankee Stadium, Bronx
No [G] between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Sq
New York City, 21 other states and the District of Columbia sued to block a federal rule, set to start Sept. 18, that lets officers weigh nearly any means-tested benefit against a green-card application.
Two suits landed Monday in Manhattan federal court: the city's, joined by Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Clara County, Seattle and King County, and a states' suit led by James. [2] "Public charge" is the old test for whether an applicant will depend on government support; under the new guidance, benefits received from Sept. 18 on, including food stamps and housing assistance, can count, where before only cash assistance and long-term institutional care did. [2] Refugees, asylees and Special Immigrant Juveniles stay exempt, and the rule changes nobody's eligibility for benefits. [2] The city's hotline for questions is 800-354-0365. [1]
“None of this is abstract. People could die as a result of these changes.”
“We're shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome.”
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GothamistTen South Bronx cooling towers, one of them at Yankee Stadium, tested positive for Legionella in a cluster that has killed one person.
The Health Department tested 24 towers in ZIP codes 10451 and 10456, which cover Melrose and Morrisania, and ordered the 10 positives drained and disinfected by Monday; the list includes Lincoln Hospital and Cookie's Department Store. [93] Those are PCR results, which find bacterial DNA but can't tell live from dead, and culture tests take up to two weeks. [93] Eight of the 10 towers had kept up the city's 31-day testing rule; 820 Concourse Village West and 1265 Franklin Ave. had not. [93] Anyone who has spent time in the area since late August and gets flu-like symptoms should call a doctor, and officials say tap water, showers and air conditioning are safe. [98]
“folks better believe if we find that a building owner was noncompliant, didn't do what they're supposed to do, drop the ball, there will be consequences and we will hold them accountable”
“No current cases have been associated with Yankee Stadium,”
Bronx Times
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City Hall's new traffic safety plan commits 19 agencies to more than 100 steps, including safer designs at 1,000 or more intersections a year.
"Vision Zero Reimagined" promises hardened daylighting (physical barriers where parking used to be near corners) at a minimum of 1,000 intersections a year, redesigns of every untreated priority corridor within three years, and more 20 mph zones. [72] Its boldest ideas, pedestrian-only districts and a transit "mobility wallet" for low-income riders, are still ideas: an official said "I don't, unfortunately, have a lot of details that I can share quite yet." [72] Several enforcement pieces, including a drugged-driving bill, need Albany to act. [69]
“acknowledges that we all make mistakes, it's human nature, and that our road systems should be designed so that those mistakes don't cost us our lives as we simply try to get around our city.”
“we're probably over a year away from the program getting launched”
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At Sunday's 14th annual Momo Crawl, 32 Jackson Heights restaurants sold dumplings for $1 each, and lines ran more than a block down the sidewalk. [107] Bimala Shrestha of Bhanchha Ghar on Roosevelt Avenue, a five-time winner, spent weeks filling a freezer from her basement "factory," where two women folded momo from 8 a.m. to midnight. She sold nearly 4,000 last year. Her campaign pitch this year: "Vote for me please." [107]