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In Upper Manhattan, downtown [1] skips 125 St, 116 St-Columbia University, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) and 103 St
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips 170 St, Mt Eden Av and 176 St and runs every 16 minutes (days/evenings)
Pelham Bay Park-bound [6] trains are running with delays after FDNY responded to a track fire at Buhre Av.
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
In Manhattan, downtown [D] runs local from 125 St to 59 St-Columbus Circle
No [L] between Broadway Junction and Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
New York's unemployment system goes offline at 5 p.m. Monday for nine to 12 days while the state moves to a $188 million replacement, so anyone who certifies after that will see their payment delayed.
The state Department of Labor is replacing technology that dates to the 1970s and 1980s and doesn't work on phones; some businesses still have to fax information in [15]. The new system adds a claim-status tracker that Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon calls the "pizza tracker" [15]. Nobody loses benefits during the outage, and back weeks can be certified once the new system is live [15]. The state looked at doing the move in pieces, with several shorter shutdowns, and chose to do it all at once [15].
“If you're already collecting and you certify before 5 p.m. on Nov. 2, that claim will be processed as usual and your money will land in your bank account probably by the end of that week,”
“They're really struggling to get by and they really rely on these benefits,”
“We know it's not ideal, but this has been a many, many, many year process”
GothamistSanitation installed the first of 700 locked curbside trash containers in Community District 2, from Brooklyn Heights to Fort Greene, and they will take about 768 parking spots.
Every residential building with more than 30 units in Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and nearby neighborhoods gets an Empire Bin, and buildings with 10 to 30 units can choose one [85][87]. Building staff open them with a key card or an app, and new side-loading trucks empty them automatically three times a week [85][87]. West Harlem went fully containerized in 2025, and the city plans to cover every building by 2031 [85].
“Yes, there's a modest loss of parking, but, in exchange for that, we're going to have the cleaner and healthier streets that we deserve,”
“This is something that should be done and should happen all over the city,”
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A lithium-ion e-bike fire in an 11th-floor kitchen at Patterson Houses in Mott Haven killed 10-year-old Zion Maine on Wednesday, and three more relatives died Friday.
The fire started just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, and the burning bike was sitting by the apartment's only exit [43][31]. On Friday the FDNY announced the deaths of two teenage boys and a 33-year-old woman, and the boy's father is still in critical condition [43][31]. DISPUTED: NBC New York gives the younger teen's age as 11, while the Post says 15 [43][31]. A neighbor said the family had moved the bike inside after bikes kept in the hallway were stolen, and Mayor Mamdani said he would look at storage rooms surrounded by cinderblock in public housing [43].
“An e-bike was placed in the pathway of the exit door,”
“He loved basketball,”
A Las Vegas wedding chapel called Sure Thing has opened in a 400-square-foot pink storefront at 122 Allen Street, where one of the officiants is Tillie, a vintage-clad, genderless clown, and another is Hellvis, a goth Elvis [117]. A wedding costs $666 for 30 minutes and up to 18 guests, and a back door leads into Autophoto, the vintage photo-booth gallery next door, where newlyweds skip the line [117]. John Waters officiated one ceremony there this month [117].