Weather
74°59°
Mostly Sunny
Mostly Sunny
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [2][3] skips Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza and Bergen St
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [4] local skips Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza and Bergen 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] trains are running with delays in both directions while we conduct track maintenance in Manhattan.
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
[L] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Manhattan.
A Staten Island judge canceled the roughly 17,000 notices the city mailed to possible second-home owners and ordered the Finance Department to show who owes the tax before billing anyone.
Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled the city unfairly made homeowners prove they live in their own homes, and ordered the candidate list pulled from the Finance Department website and new notices mailed based on the city's own tax records [21][30]. The ruling leaves the tax itself, passed in the state budget in May, in place [16]. City Hall says it will appeal and seek a stay [16]. Separately, Steve Wynn and Wilbur Ross sued the state claiming the tax discriminates against nonresidents; the Rosses got a notice for $83,531.52 more [16].
“Homeowners are being substantially harmed and penalized needlessly by D.O.F.’s method of implementing the tax law”
“City Hall botched this rollout and should have just admitted the errors and fixed its own mistake”
“Today’s decision is wrong, and we will invoke a stay of the injunction.”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
Gothamist
City buses averaged 8.5 mph in August, the fastest monthly average since August 2022, as bus-lane cameras spread to a third of the fleet.
MTA bus chief Frank Farrell told the board's transit committee that August's light traffic helped, but credited the Queens bus network redesign and on-board camera enforcement [96]. The cameras, known as ACE, ticket drivers who block buses or stops, in or out of bus lanes, and the MTA says they sped some stretches by 30 percent [96]. It is the first scorecard for the joint city-MTA plan to speed buses on 50 slow corridors [96].
“The system is performing better in ways that matter for our customers”
“The mayor said fast and the buses listened”
Streetsblog New York CityCam Schlittler struck out 10 over 6.1 scoreless innings and Ben Rice drove in six runs, including a grand slam, as the Yankees took Game 1 of the Wild Card Series without Aaron Judge.
Schlittler threw 117 pitches, a career high, and no Red Sox runner got past first base while he pitched [214][225]. Rice, like Schlittler raised among Red Sox fans in Massachusetts, finished with four hits, two homers and the eighth-inning slam [225]. Judge was left off the roster with a calf strain; Giancarlo Stanton and Trent Grisham came off the injured list [211].
“I think I’m good at keeping receipts.”
“I do know that playing here made me a stronger person, made me a better man, a better husband.”
Pinstripe Alley
A rat in Riverside Park squeezed through the bars of a trash can near the 103rd Street steps for a taste of the dog poo inside, and died stuck there, paws outstretched [134]. Jennifer Wenzel, 57, called it "a New York City still life," and another passerby compared it to the "Death of Marat" [134]. William Glendon, 80, of the Upper West Side, gave the eulogy: "It’s lived a good life, living in the park." [134]