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Chance Rain Showers
58% chance of rain
Uptown [1][2][3] trains are running with delays after NYPD responded to a person being disruptive on a train at Times Sq-42 St.
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
No [6] between Hunts Point Av and 125 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 82 St, 90 St, 103 St and 111 St All trains at Junction Blvd board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In Manhattan, downtown [A] local skips 50 St, 23 St and Spring St
Jamaica-bound [E][F] trains are running with delays after we conducted track maintenance in Queens.
No [L] between Lorimer St, Brooklyn and 8 Av, Manhattan
In Queens, Astoria-bound [N] skips 39 Av-Dutch Kills, 36 Av, Broadway and 30 Av
Since Oct. 1, landlords owe tenants 68 degrees by day when it drops below 55 outside, and HPD says it will inspect every heat complaint unit by unit instead of sampling a building.
Heat season opened this week, and the rule is the old one: 68 degrees during the day once the outdoor temperature falls below 55, and 62 at night no matter the weather [25]. What changed is enforcement. HPD used to send an inspector to a sample of units in a building with several complaints; Commissioner Dina Levy told WNYC the goal now is to check each complaint individually, with more inspectors hired under the Block-by-Block housing plan [25]. The city is pairing the stick with the revived J-51 tax abatement for heating and weatherization work, which the Council renewed for 10 years [25].
“Landlords who want to do right by their tenants and their buildings should consider HPD an ally and consider our doors open to assist them however they need.”
Drew Rasmussen held the Yankees hitless until two outs in the eighth, and the Rays won Game 1 of the Division Series 1-0 at Tropicana Field.
Jonathan Aranda drove a Gerrit Cole changeup into the right-center stands for the only run [80]. Austin Wells broke up the no-hitter with a two-out double in the eighth, then ran through third-base coach Luis Rojas's stop sign and was thrown out at third to end the inning [80]. Bryan Baker struck out pinch-hitter Giancarlo Stanton, in his first plate appearance since April 24, then Ben Rice, and got Cody Bellinger to ground out [80]. Aaron Judge, out since Sept. 16 with a calf injury, is not on the series roster [80][69].
El Diario NYChip City, the cookie chain born in Astoria in 2017, shut all 22 of its remaining locations Friday, days after its co-founder sued it for unpaid severance.
President Nicolas Baizan emailed employees Thursday that every store would close permanently at the end of that business day, the same day the chain's Instagram was still pushing a seasonal Crisp Apple Fritter Cookie for Friday [29]. Co-founder and former CEO Peter Phillips sued on Sept. 28, saying the company never paid his severance after he stepped down in March; the suit says the company had begun questioning about $900,000 in expenses from his tenure [29]. Neither side commented to Gothamist [29].
“Unfortunately, we no longer have the funding required to operate this business.”
“It's just disappointing, there's so many big overexpanded chains already, and I feel like it would be a lot easier to just keep a cookie place just a local cookie place”
Gothamist
Franz Aliquo, born in Bayside and raised on Roosevelt Island, built the Department of New Yorker Verification, an unofficial agency with a convincingly municipal website [46]. Natives qualify by school records, not birth alone; transplants will need 1,000 points, at least 200 from hardship such as bedbugs, muggings and alternate-side parking [46]. Statements from bodega owners carry particular weight, claiming to have "discovered" an inhabited neighborhood can cost you verification, and the application fee is one documented act of kindness toward a stranger [46].