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Downtown [1] skips 125 St
No [4] between Grand Central-42 St, Manhattan and Utica Av/New Lots Av, Brooklyn No [6] between Grand Central-42 St and Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall
[6] trains are delayed in both directions due to FDNY activity between 125 St and 3 Av/138 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 Upper Manhattan, [A] runs every 30 minutes between Inwood-207 St and 168 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
No [G] between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Sq
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [N] local skips 25 St, Prospect Av, 4 Av-9 St and Union St
[Q] trains are running with delays in both directions after track maintenance at 96 St concluded.
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [R] skips 25 St, Prospect Av, 4 Av-9 St and Union St
Gov. Hochul beat Bruce Blakeman by more than 20 points in unofficial results, and two Brooklynites, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, are in line to lead the House and Senate in January.
Democrats expanded their majorities in both chambers in Albany [22] and could gain six state Senate seats, enough for a supermajority [9]. Four of their flips came in southern Brooklyn [7]. Jeffries would be the first Black speaker [40]. He needs a majority of votes cast for a named person on the House floor, and party members usually back their conference's nominee, though the rules do not bind them (Congressional Research Service).
“Foot on the gas, foot on the gas,”
“There was a tone deafness in not listening to voters,”
Gothamist
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El Diario NYVoters approved all five of Mayor Mamdani's charter changes on Tuesday, so DOT can start street safety work while outreach runs and the City Council can no longer reject individual sidewalk cafes.
Proposal 3 rewrites the review for street projects, with the police, the local Council member and the community board consulted alongside construction instead of before it [1]. The old law, passed in 2009, covered street redesigns of more than three blocks or 1,000 feet, and bike lane opponents kept using its paperwork to sue [107] (Local Law 90 of 2009). The same measure speeds sales of small city lots, which the Municipal Art Society opposes for lacking safeguards on public land [1]. Proposal 1 merges sidewalk and roadway dining into one application [1].
“This really just defangs some of the opponents who have sought to slow down and stop these street safety projects,”
“This proposition essentially grants the authority to an unelected individual, the commissioner of transportation in the city of New York, to make any changes that he feels in his specific and individual opinion is necessary for safety,”
6sqft
Streetsblog New York CityGothamistRealtor.com put the city's median asking rent at $3,785 a month in the third quarter, up 4.5 percent in a year and the highest since it began collecting rent data in 2019.
The Realtor.com report tracks Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, leaving out Staten Island [82]. It measures what landlords ask on listings, a separate market from the rent-stabilized apartments whose rents the Rent Guidelines Board froze in June [82]. Studios through two-bedrooms rose fastest, and the report's authors point to renters competing for few small units [82].
“For renters hoping to save for a down payment, the squeeze is coming from both directions.”
“At the same time, the cost of buying a typical home is nearly three times the cost of renting,”
Commercial Observer
Turning back the only clock set in a New York City sidewalk takes a jeweler on a ladder beneath the pavement. William Barthman Jeweler installed the timepiece at Maiden Lane and Broadway in 1899, and some 50,000 people a day now walk over its sapphire crystal cover. Gilo Vintimilla has tended it since 2001, adjusting the hands from below while marketing director Brianna Thompson stands on the street and directs him by phone. "No, no, too far, come back," she told him on the latest change. Then: "Wait, no, too far, come forward." [131]