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No [1] between Dyckman St, Upper Manhattan and Van Cortlandt Park-242 St, Bronx
Uptown [2][3] trains are running with delays after we performed track maintenance at 96 St.
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips 170 St, Mt Eden Av and 176 St and runs every 16 minutes (days/evenings)
In Manhattan, downtown [4][5][6] skip 86 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
Uptown [A] trains are delayed while we conduct an investigation on a train at Jay St-MetroTech.
In Queens, Jamaica-bound [E][F] local skips 36 St, Steinway St, 46 St, Northern Blvd and 65 St
In Manhattan, downtown [D] runs local from 125 St to 59 St-Columbus Circle
No [M] between Myrtle Av (Broadway) and Delancey St-Essex St All trains at Myrtle Av board from the Manhattan-bound platform
No [J] between Myrtle Av and Broad St
Three days after winning 60% of the vote, Gov. Hochul said that if universal child care needs more money, she will find a path, ten days after telling NBC she would not raise taxes.
Speaking in San Juan at the Somos conference beside Mayor Mamdani, Hochul said she is open to new revenue for the city's universal child care program, which is budgeted through 2028 [17][19]. She pointed to the pied-à-terre tax and the higher MTA payroll mobility tax as past examples of a dedicated tax for a specific need [17][19]. Mamdani, who campaigned on taxing the rich, said he still holds those positions [19]. The details wait for her State of the State 2027 [17].
“I will work hard to manage within our existing resources, but if we need more, we will find a path”
“I will not raise taxes. I'm very clear on that.”
“tax revenues are flowing into New York state like gangbusters.”
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City & State New York - All ContentFrom Saturday through Nov. 15, no A trains stop at 104th Street, 111th Street or Lefferts Blvd; shuttle buses take over.
The shutdown is the first stretch of the MTA's resignaling of the A from High Street in Downtown Brooklyn to southeast Queens, starting between Rockaway Blvd and Lefferts [80]. Some signals on the line date to the 1930s; they're being replaced with communications-based train control, the computerized system already running the 7 and L [80]. The work is paid for with congestion pricing money [80].
“It’s a hassle. Again. It’s very inconvenient,”
“On time performance is through the roof,”
Google says schools that ban AI will lose Google search early next year, in a system that owns 1.3 million Chromebooks.
Mamdani announced a one-year ban on most AI in city schools in September; this week Google said turning off its AI will also mean turning off search [85]. The Education Department says it has disabled Gemini and AI Mode on student Chromebooks and has asked Google to disable the AI Overview in results [85]. Google says the tools will be off by default and schools will choose what to switch on [85]. Fordham's Zephyr Teachout calls the move illegal under antitrust law [85].
“Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,”
“search and A.I. are deeply integrated,”
“It would be incredibly difficult for us to disentangle our school system entirely from Google, and that's what they're betting on,”
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A construction crew excavating a backyard at 79 Christopher St. hit several bones and part of a skull four to seven feet down, and called 911 [40]. The medical examiner ruled them historic, likely buried when the plot was a cemetery for neighboring St. John's Lutheran Church in the mid-1800s [40]. Police said no foul play was suspected [40].