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Uptown [2][4] trains are delayed while we perform track maintenance near Nevins St.
In the Bronx, no overnight [5] between Dyre Av and E 180 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] is rerouted in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we conduct track maintenance in Queens.
In the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
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 [Q] between 57 St/7 Av and 96 St
Mamdani and Trump agreed Monday to put their housing and operations staffs in direct talks over a platform above Sunnyside Yard, a plan Mamdani says could hold 12,000 homes.
After an hourlong meeting at Gracie Mansion, the mayor and the president said the talks would cover financing and the "technical and legal authorization of the construction of a platform" over the Amtrak-owned rail yard in western Queens [63]. Trump offered no funding pledge, and said any development should carry a "pretty substantial" affordable-housing component [4]. The yard is working track, so homes need a deck built over live trains first, which is why every past plan has died on cost [63].
“You're going to need a lot of federal approvals and probably some federal money to do it. But it's always been a great location.”
“It could be an amazing project but I'll believe it when I see the actual funding for it,”
Gothamist
Starting Tuesday, drivers caught going more than 10 mph over the limit in work zones on the MTA's nine bridges and tunnels get fined $50, rising to $100 for repeat offenders.
The cameras have run in warning mode since June 30; now the tickets are real [89]. Unmarked vehicles with radar and cameras park in active construction zones during work hours, with signs ahead warning drivers [89]. The violations count as non-moving infractions, so they stay off driving records and away from insurers, though late fees apply [89]. The state first authorized work zone cameras for highways in 2021 and extended them to the MTA's crossings in 2025 [82].
The excavation truck whose driver killed 15-year-old Daria Serkov on a Citi Bike at 14th Street and First Avenue held a city exemption from the side-guard rule, and about half of trade waste trucks do too.
Side guards, which keep cyclists and pedestrians from being pulled under a truck's wheels, have been required on heavy commercial waste vehicles since 2015, with a 2023 compliance deadline [48]. The Business Integrity Commission told Streetsblog it granted this Badger hydro-excavation truck a waiver in 2023 under the governing rules [48]. The driver stayed at the scene and has not been charged [52]. 14th Street has no protected bike lane [48].
“This waiver application demonstrated that the vehicle had incorporated features such as toolboxes and fuel tanks on the vehicle sidewalls, rendering guards impractical,”
“I was shocked that there were exemptions,”
Streetsblog New York City
Two Stuyvesant seniors, Skylar Aaron and Shayna Wilson, looked at the two yellow crates overflowing by their school entrance, learned the unclaimed stuff got thrown out every June, and started digging. With their mothers driving, they have pulled more than 2,000 pounds of clothing out of lost-and-found bins at Stuy and two Upper East Side schools and carried it to places like the Bowery Mission. "Nobody would ever look through it," Aaron said of the pile [102].