“New York City is only making the lifeguard crisis worse because there's thousands of kids each summer who aren't learning how to swim, who then aren't going to be lifeguards in the future."
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MTA experts were not available to comment on why they waited more than 20 minutes to shut off power to the dangerous third rail.
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A look at the exhausting, exalted life of a Met chorister: “We’re kind of like the unsung heroes.”
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Police arrested 13 people who were protesting Neely's death at the 63rd Street-Lexington Avenue station on Saturday evening, according to the NYPD.
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A team of developers is turning a hotel near JFK Airport into more than 300 new apartments — putting the building on pace to become the city’s first such residential conversion under a stalled measure meant to spur affordable housing.
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Mayor Eric Adams' plan to send asylum seekers to the Hudson Valley has been met with resistance.
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Prospect Park's Lena Horne Bandshell will come alive this summer when BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! kicks off its eagerly anticipated festival.
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The ban on new hookups is already promising to be a major political battle in next year’s congressional and state legislative elections.
Full story: bit.ly/3AZFo2Y
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“The system has failed her,” says Raneisha Durham, who found out about her friend’s death through the news.
“Somebody has to pay for it, answer for it. Because if these cops take these things a little bit more serious…they can avoid things like this.”
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Protesters took over the 63rd Street-Lexington Avenue subway station on Saturday evening, calling for justice for Jordan Neely, who was choked to death aboard an F train on Monday.
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“& Juliet” was nominated for nine Tony awards, including “Best Musical” and “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical.”
But little of that glory goes to understudy Rachel Webb.
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On Saturday in Union Square, people queued up in long lines outside green tents emblazoned with the city’s logo. The coveted merch they were waiting for? T-shirts emblazoned with the We Love NYC logo — though the heart was replaced with a marijuana leaf.
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A Brownsville DJ is fighting to reclaim his family’s home of 59 years after losing the property and getting evicted in what he calls “a fraudulent deed theft transaction.”
New evidence is prompting a judge to take a fresh look at his case.
Full story: bit.ly/42o3oYY
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In the wake of Jordan Neely's killing, Gothamist spoke to mental health workers and advocates about how they would respond to people in mental or medical distress — and what members of the public can do to keep situations from ending in tragedy.
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The TD Five Boro Bike Tour will be closing down vast stretches of roadway to cars and other motorized vehicles on Sunday. Here are the current street closures:
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If the plan goes through, New York would become the first state in the nation to have such a tolling system.
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A 24-year-old man who grew up on Long Island and served in the Marines is under investigation after he put a homeless man in a deadly chokehold on the F train on Monday, his lawyer told Gothamist.
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The Rockland County executive Ed Day called the plan “absurd” and said that officials “will not stand for it.”
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The devil bird has landed in NYC, so here are your evening stories:
—Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner did not recognize Jessica Alba when he sat next to her.
—Answering the mystery behind the NJ pasta piles.
—Former Mets pitcher Matt Harvey retires.
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The MTA’s plan to install surveillance cameras in every subway car is on schedule, but most cars — including the F train car Jordan Neely was riding in when a fellow passenger placed him in a deadly chokehold — still do not have the devices.
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The MTA will spend $35 million over the next year to provide more frequent service on lines where ridership is rebounding quickly from the pandemic.
Full story: bit.ly/4279QUt
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It's Cinco de Mayo, and whether you neglected to plan ahead or just want to extend the partying beyond today, Queens College in Flushing is hosting its inaugural Festival del Son, a family-oriented music and dance festival.
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A conservative-leaning volunteer parent group that has protested "woke-ism" in public schools has set its sights on New York City's little-known Community Education Councils, which have some power over the city’s education policies.
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As New York City spends billions of dollars preparing for its next extreme flood, new research suggests a cheaper, greener resource may already be scattered across the five boroughs: transforming the roofs of bus stops into urban gardens.
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Happy birthday to a 104-year-old Staten Island woman who beat COVID twice & drinks beer daily, so here are your morning stories:
—The 150-question exam to become a NYC tour guide
—The city has North America's best bar
—The mystery pasta in NJ's woods
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Months before 43-year-old Dora Howell was found shot in the chest and buried in a Staten Island home in April, she was a plaintiff before the state’s highest court, where she was suing the city for failing to protect her from domestic violence.
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When officers arrived, the man used a fire escape to re-enter the building, according to the NYPD.
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To defeat NYC's mountains of trash, new technology is required.
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The changes to New York's bail laws make it more clear that judges can require mental health and chemical dependence treatment.
They also make it clear that judges can combine bail with other conditions of release.
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"I could see he was really holding really tight, and who was there to help him? No one helped.”
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Police also shot and killed a man they say was running from the scene with a gun.
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The agency recently said it would stop tweeting commuter rail alerts, but returned Thursday after Twitter reportedly changed its policy.
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Legal experts weigh in on the type of charges that could come down if prosecutors pursue a criminal case.
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The G, J and M lines will be the first to see more frequent trains.
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A Hilton near JFK Airport is being turned into a 300-unit apartment building, marking the first hotel-to-housing conversion to come out of a 2021 state law promoting the concept.
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“He was totally subdued,” says James Kings. “It wasn’t like he was trying to fight back or anything. He was just limp.”
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Jordan Neely — killed on the subway after another passenger put him in a lethal chokehold — was well known to many New Yorkers as a moonwalking Michael Jackson impersonator who danced on the subways and platforms as early as 2009.
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Among the best reasons to live in New York City is that you'll never run out of things to do free of charge.
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Asked about how such a situation should be handled by subway passengers, Mayor Adams said “every circumstance is different."
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New York is set to become the first U.S. state to ban fossil-fuel hookups in newly constructed homes and apartment buildings.
But if you’re in New York City, a similar ban is starting sooner.
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