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In Upper Manhattan, no [1] between 137 St-City College and 168 St-Washington Hts
In Manhattan, [4] runs local in both directions between 125 St and Grand Central-42 St
[5] runs every 20 minutes and local in both directions between 125 St and Grand Central-42 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
In Manhattan, uptown [A] stops at 23 St and 50 St
In Brooklyn and Manhattan, [C] service is rerouted between Jay St-MetroTech and 59 St-Columbus Circle
Uptown [D] trains are running with delays while we address a signal malfunction at 18 Av.
Uptown [E] trains are running on the [F] line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Av . Uptown [C][D] trains are bypassing 7 Av.
No [M] between Myrtle Av (Broadway) and Delancey St-Essex St All trains at Myrtle Av (Broadway) board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In Brooklyn, some Church Av-bound [G] trains will skip 4 Av/9 St, 15 St-Prospect Park, and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
No [J] between Myrtle Av and Broad St
Coney Island-bound [D][N] trains are running with delays after we moved a train that had its brakes activated at Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr.
[Q] runs every 10 minutes
In Queens, Forest Hills-bound [R] skips 36 St, Steinway St, 46 St, Northern Blvd and 65 St
FDNY response times to life-threatening emergencies grew 3 minutes and 50 seconds over a decade, while those calls rose more than 22%.
Comptroller Mark Levine's office reviewed FDNY EMS data from fiscal 2015 through 2026 and found ambulances reaching the most serious calls 41% slower, with non-life-threatening response times more than doubling [76]. The report blames a fleet that keeps landing in the shop and EMTs who leave for better pay; they have worked without a union contract since 2022 [76]. In Flushing, a St. Francis Prep sophomore having a stroke waited about an hour through multiple 911 calls before his parents drove him to the hospital themselves, and the FDNY says it is investigating [91].
“New York City’s emergency medical workers are being asked to do more while being paid less,”
“We will continue to take steps to improve response times and keep New Yorkers safe”
Gothamist
Crews will start raising the sagging floors at 235 East 42nd Street next week, 1/64th of an inch at a time, after two columns buckled there in July.
MetroLoft dropped its plan to rebuild the damaged section of the city's largest office-to-housing conversion and will instead jack the floors back up about 7 inches, under plans by Thornton Tomasetti that the Department of Buildings approved [68]. The bent columns came out last month, and the city still has not released its investigation into the failure [68]. Gothamist first reported the columns were never reinforced into boxes as the approved drawings required [68].
“We would not allow any work to proceed in the city if we thought it was posing a hazard to the public,”
“I think the repair is fine,”
“They have not been fired, they have not been terminated.”
GothamistBarnes & Noble opens next month at Avenue A and East 11th Street, directly across from The Rabbit Books and Bar, which opened this summer.
The chain's East Village store lands in a neighborhood where 7-Eleven failed and the Starbucks at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place just closed [70]. Most nearby indie owners told Gothamist they are not panicking, betting a curated shelf beats a big one; Afterword Bookshop on East Sixth Street runs about 700 square feet [70]. Book Club Bar's Erin Neary called it one more thing making a hard business harder, while granting that money taken from Amazon is a win [70].
“I’m hoping it will be a multiplier effect.”
“In my building, I see a pile of Amazon packages,”
“If they make it, they make it,”
Gothamist
The Post put "Real Housewives" alum Carole Radziwill on its front page for saving SoHo parking spots with ConEd cones and running up nearly $8,000 in violations since 2020, including 17 missed alternate-side moves [50]. She did not take it badly. "My family has bought out every copy in Rockland County. We are planning on making wallpaper," she said, and added that the mayor "should give me a key to the city" [50]. The Sanitation Department noted that its sweepers can pick up 1,500 pounds of litter, but only when the cars move [50].