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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] is rerouted in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
Renewal leases on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments starting Thursday stay at last year's rent, while a judge weighs a landlord suit to void the freeze.
The Rent Guidelines Board's freeze took effect Oct. 1, and Manhattan Judge Brendan Lantry has declined to halt it while the case proceeds [69][78]. The board's nine members are mayoral appointees but are supposed to weigh landlord and tenant cost data independently [69]. Landlords' lawyer Randy Mastro filed the emails and texts the court ordered City Hall to hand over; the Times reports they show mostly logistics and no instruction to freeze [72]. Mastro, Adams' first deputy mayor, confirmed he lobbied the board chair for a low increase last year [69].
“the contacts between City Hall and the RGB were not only substantial, but also shocking, in that they show coordination and collaboration throughout the RGB’s process.”
“This year, communications were limited, non-substantive, and in no way reflect any attempts to influence the outcome of the vote.”
Gothamist
From Bay Ridge to the Upper West Side, 12 community districts that built 883 of the city's 63,870 new affordable homes in five years lose the City Council's final vote on affordable rezonings starting Jan. 1.
City Planning named the districts Thursday under the charter amendment voters passed last November [59]. Eligible rezonings there get a 90-day review in place of the roughly seven-month ULURP: community boards and borough presidents still weigh in, then the mayor-appointed City Planning Commission decides, with no Council vote and no mayoral veto [54][59]. No Bronx district made the list; five are in Queens [59][76]. Council members whose turf is on it call it a loss of local say [76].
“New York’s housing crisis is not going to be solved by asking the same neighborhoods to do all the building,”
“Take the Upper West Side off the list.”
6sqft
Gov. Hochul named Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor in the Chi Phi fraternity case after documents showed Cornell police cut the accuser's statement that she was raped from the report prosecutors saw.
Hochul took the case from Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten by executive order Thursday [8]. The Times obtained a 120-page interview transcript in which the woman said she was raped; the six-page statement sent to Van Houten omitted it [39]. In Albany, a bill letting prosecutors focus on whether a victim could consent, however she became intoxicated, has passed the Senate at least four times since 2019 and never reached an Assembly vote [9].
“New information has raised serious questions about how this case was handled, and I’ve lost faith in the Tompkins County D.A.’s ability to fairly oversee it,”
“Multiple prosecutors and criminal investigators reviewed Jane Doe’s statement and correctly determined the alleged facts as set forth in the statement do not constitute a crime,”
Gothamist
With about two minutes left in the Rangers' home opener, Tampa Bay pulled its goalie for a third time, and Igor Shesterkin fired the puck the length of the Garden ice into the empty net. He became the first goaltender in Rangers history to score a goal, capping a 5-1 win [177].