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[2] runs every 30 minutes In Upper Manhattan, all trains at 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 116 St, 125 St and 135 St board from the downtown platform
Overnight [3] is suspended
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
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
In Manhattan, uptown [A] local skips 72 St, 81 St, 86 St, 96 St, 103 St, 110 St and 116 St
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [D] local skips 25 St, Prospect Av, 4 Av-9 St and Union 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
Coney Island-Stillwell Av-bound [N] trains are running with delays after we moved a train that had its brakes activated near Fort Hamilton Pkwy.
No late night [R] between Whitehall St-South Ferry and 59 St, Brooklyn
The Plaza closes in January 2027 for a facade restoration that will keep it dark until at least 2031, and its 378 union workers keep a right to return.
Fairmont, which runs the 1907 landmark at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, announced the closure Wednesday; the Palm Court and the event rooms go dark with it [81][78]. The city has deemed the facade unsafe, and new rules would let $6,000 monthly fines start in January [73]. Condo owners will not have to move out [73]. The weddings already booked there are in limbo [73].
“I’ve heard there’s only one or two suppliers that can provide the materials needed to modernize the facade,”
“I am concerned about the workers who will get health care and benefits but likely to be without wages for the entire duration,”
Citi Bike finished 230 new stations in Norwood, Riverdale, Brownsville, East New York, Kensington, Bay Ridge and Forest Hills, and the price of riding went up with it.
DOT and Lyft finished the expansion Thursday, adding 3,700 docks [85]. Next, Lyft plans more docks where bikes run out, including Greenpoint, Chelsea and Midtown East [82]. Staten Island still has none [85]. The city has little say over pricing until Lyft's contract expires in 2029 [85].
“in Norwood, more than half of trips at the new stations are Reduced Fare trips.”
Gothamist
6sqftU.S. District Judge Ramón Reyes dismissed the Justice Department's challenge to the city's sanctuary laws, ruling the federal government lacked standing.
Reyes also ruled that forcing local officials to help with immigration enforcement would violate constitutional limits on federal power [14]. The ruling came a week after an ICE agent shot Oscar Belgal in Marble Hill [14]. The Justice Department did not immediately comment [14]. City law already lets the city honor ICE detainers for people convicted of 177 listed felonies [35].
“This is a victory for New Yorkers and a rebuke to ICE’s deportation agenda,”
“If they would just honor the detainers that we put out, you’d see less and less of ICE.”
Gothamist
For weeks, Thomas Obersteiner and his wife on the Upper West Side kept running into their kids' bedroom at night, sure a child was screaming. It was barn owls: a family nesting in a water tower on West 75th Street, the first documented barn owl nest in Manhattan in recorded history, according to Cornell's Andrew Farnsworth. Birder David Barrett has counted at least one adult and five fledglings, and seen an adult hauling rodents home. Obersteiner now lets photographers onto his roof deck almost every night. "We can’t say no because it’s so much fun and these people are so serious," he said. [132]