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Downtown [1] skips 125 St
Uptown [4][5] trains are running with delays after we investigated what caused train's brakes to activate near Wall St.
[7][7X] trains are running with delays in both directions after we investigated what caused a train's brakes to activate at Hunters Point Av.
[B][D] trains are running with delays in both directions while FDNY responds to a track fire at Kingsbridge Rd.
Downtown [M][R] trains are running with delays after we removed a train from service at Forest Hills-71 Av.
Court Sq-bound [G] trains are running with delays after we addressed a mechanical problem on a train at Church Av.
Gov. Hochul watched the Bills in Astoria with Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on the last day of early voting, while Bruce Blakeman, trailing by double digits, flew a statewide sweep that ends at Madison Square Garden tonight.
Hochul spent Sunday on the Upper West Side and at Murphy's Sports Bar in Astoria, the first time Ocasio-Cortez has campaigned in person with her this year [1]. Blakeman stumped in Northport, Oswego and Rensselaer counties and plans Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton Monday before the Knicks-Nets game at the Garden [1][28]. He told voters he would sign an order on Jan. 1 ending New York's sanctuary status; Hochul's campaign has emphasized housing and a nearly $4 billion public-safety investment [68].
“Plus 1 makes me happy enough. Don't worry about it,”
“I have seen two statewide polls in the last three weeks that have us less than four points behind”
“The stakes are too high for us to be consumed by the narcissism of small differences.”
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The Citizens Budget Commission says the MTA faces a $900 million gap by 2030 and should run trains with one worker instead of two, as the agency prepares a 4% fare and toll increase.
The watchdog argues that on lines with computer-based signals, like the L and the 7, the train operator mostly presses a button every 20 seconds to show they are alert, while the conductor works the doors [45]. It also wants commuter-rail tickets checked before boarding and retirees paying more toward health care [45]. Albany passed a two-worker requirement last year; Gov. Hochul vetoed it [45]. The TWU, bargaining a contract for 40,000 subway and bus workers, rejected the plan [45].
“It's essentially a recommendation to balance alleged deficits that the MTA has off the backs of working people.”
“Legislatively mandated staffing prevents the MTA from modernizing”
GothamistSweden's Andreas Almgren won the New York City Marathon in 2:06:01 in his first try at the distance, and Sheila Chepkirui outsprinted Hellen Obiri in the last 150 meters.
About 60,000 runners crossed five bridges from Staten Island to Central Park on a warm, clear Sunday [53][21]. American Jessica McClain passed Obiri in the final strides for second, the first U.S. woman in the top three since 2018 [53]. Mayor Mamdani handed out water at Mile 13 in Long Island City in a "faster government on my mind" hat [21]. Dave Obelkevich ran his 50th straight, the only person to run every five-borough edition [21].
“This is my first marathon. I didn't know how I was supposed to feel,”
“Good news, this is the last damn bridge,”
“They're much more vocal,”
Peter Napolitano and Elena Volkova were stopped in a Port Washington supermarket by an influencer offering $500 or five minutes to fill their cart. Napolitano told him he had lost his job, that Volkova has stage 4 breast cancer, and that he wanted to marry her. Two weeks later, 34 vendors had donated the dress, the band, the flowers and the ring, Rockefeller Center gave up the venue, and the two shared a first dance there Sunday evening [61].