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In Upper Manhattan, no [1] between 137 St-City College and 168 St-Washington Hts
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 Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, no Inwood-bound [A] at High St, Fulton St, Chambers St, Canal St and Spring St
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we conduct track maintenance along the line in Queens.
[D] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance near Broadway-Lafayette St.
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
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [Q] skips W 8 St-NY Aquarium - take the [F] instead
The Knicks open the season Tuesday by hanging their first championship banner at Madison Square Garden in 50 years, and the cheapest resale seat for the night was listed at just over $1,000.
The Knicks won the 2026 title over the Spurs in five games, after the largest comeback in NBA Finals history in Game 4 [44]. Gothamist found fans still adjusting to being champions, and wary of James Dolan's payroll after Mitchell Robinson left and with Karl-Anthony Towns' contract talks reportedly stalled [44]. The roster settled Saturday: the Knicks waived Bruce Brown, keeping former No. 2 pick James Wiseman as the third center behind Towns and Andre Drummond [140].
“I feel a sense of relief to just kind of let go of that suffering,”
“If actual New Yorkers who actually take the time to play basketball even after work or before work just for the love of the game and they can't even afford tickets, it's kind of unfortunate for them because they're the biggest fans,”
Gothamist
Posting and ToastingA community board committee backed a Parks plan to rebuild the basketball courts, kids' pool and the 1990s outdoor gym in Tompkins Square Park, an 18-month job, over a 2,600-signature petition to leave the bars alone.
Parks showed the East Village community board's parks committee three options Thursday; the committee picked the full rebuild, including new fitness equipment Parks says will be safer and accessible to people with disabilities, and asked to keep the half basketball court [45]. The plan puts detention basins under the courts so storm runoff stops pushing sewage into the East River [45]. A community board only advises: the resolution goes to the full board next, and Parks, which holds the money, decides [45].
“There's no reason to change this particular fitness area because we love it the way it is,”
“We are arguing that Parks is misrepresenting the status of the park and using repairable problems to justify a much larger, more disruptive reconstruction.”
“In order to invest in the care of our parks, we must regularly redesign and rebuild our city's parks and facilities,”
GothamistOf 152 projects registered for the 485x tax break in six months, 20 had exactly 99 apartments and only one had more, because the program's wage and affordability rules jump at 100 and 150 units.
485x is the property tax break most new rental buildings need to pencil out, and its wage and affordability requirements climb at 100 units and again at 150 [77]. The city's six-month data dump shows developers capping buildings even when zoning allows more, and about a dozen clustering 99-unit buildings on one site; one filing shows 10 side by side [77]. The Building and Construction Trades Council calls that a loophole and wants Albany to close it [77]. The exception: BedRock and LMXD's 560-unit 35-10 Steinway Street in Astoria [77].
“We cannot solve a housing crisis 99 units at a time.”
Every fall, leaves land on the Hudson Line and break down into a pectin sludge that makes braking trains slide and grinds flat spots into their wheels. Metro-North's answer is the Laser Train, a work car in a retro NASA-style paint job that zaps the rails clean. Since it arrived, leaf delays are down 65% and wheel defects 30%, according to Metro-North president Justin Vonashek [79].