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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
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
In Brooklyn, Manhattan-bound [R] skips 25 St, Prospect Av, 4 Av-9 St and Union St
Fire tore through a wood-frame rowhouse on 58th Street near Seventh Avenue early Thursday, killing six adults; a lithium-ion battery was found at the scene.
The fire broke out around 1:40 a.m. and took more than 200 first responders almost three hours to control; four people died at the scene and two after reaching the hospital [34]. Firefighters reached two people trapped behind first-floor window bars through a rear entrance [39]. A charred scooter came out of the house, but officials say it is too early to tell whether a battery caused the fire [34]. The city had a complaint about illegal apartment conversions there, and inspectors went four times without getting inside [34].
“Upon arrival, we had fire on every floor,”
“The presence of lithium-ion batteries at the scene is a serious concern, and more must be done to encourage and mandate safe storage practices,”
Gothamist
The city started building 2.7 miles of bus lanes on DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues Thursday for the B38, whose buses crawl as slow as 4 mph at rush hour.
DOT is adding curbside and offset bus lanes on DeKalb from Flatbush Avenue to Broadway and on Lafayette from Ashland Place to Patchen Avenue, plus parking- and barrier-protected bike lanes [82]. Today, parked cars block the bike lane and double-parked drivers block the bus [80]. The finished route will link to the Ashland Place lane toward the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges [80].
“New Yorkers shouldn’t have to choose between getting where they need to go on time and getting there safely,”
6sqftGeorgia O'Keeffe's 1930 "Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I" spent decades boxed in an East Village closet; it is on free view at Rockefeller Center Nov. 7 to 17 before Christie's sells it.
The owner's mother bought the painting at the Downtown Gallery on 51st Street, from O'Keeffe's dealer, and gave it to her daughter as a graduation present [107]. She hung it in her East Village home until the mid-1980s, then boxed it when a guest seemed to be "eyeing it a bit too closely" [107]. It is the first of three versions of Lobo Peak; the second belongs to the Met [120].
“Oh, by the way, there’s a Georgia O’Keeffe in the closet.”
6sqft
Hyperallergic
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day plunge is nearly two months off, and a group got in the Atlantic on Nov. 1 anyway [111]. Caroline Quick, a Texan with "such a poor tolerance for cold," has swum with the bears since she was about 18 [111]. "The chills you get afterwards are best described by my beach mother as ‘delicious,’" she said [111].