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NJ Transit riders lose patience as World Cup disrupts commutes for locals at Penn Station

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Giulia Heyward Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The World Cup left many NJ Transit commuters miffed on Tuesday as the tournament’s France-Senegal game at MetLife Stadium shut down most of the agency’s rail services at Penn Station. The event was the second of eight World Cup matches to be hosted in the Meadowlands this summer — but the first to interfere with weekday transit service. For four hours before each match, the NJ Transit areas of Penn Station are reserved exclusively for World Cup-bound riders.
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Bridge over toxic Gowanus Canal reopens after 5 years of repairs

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The historic Carroll Street Bridge reopened Monday after a five-year repair project shut down the key connection over the Gowanus Canal. The landmarked 137-year-old crossing is one of the oldest in the city and has a unique design. It’s shaped like a trapezoid and is retractable — it can split apart to allow boats and barges to pass.
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Bikes get a lane, illegally parked cars get the boot in downtown Brooklyn redesign

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The city transportation department plans to install a protected bike lane to fill in one of the most glaring gaps in Brooklyn’s cycling network — and eliminate a hive of illegal parking in the process. The project, which was announced earlier this month, aims to extend the bike lane that connects to the Brooklyn Bridge. The lane abruptly cuts off at Adams and Johnson Streets, forcing many cyclists to swerve into traffic.
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NYC erupts as Knicks win Game 5, NBA championship for first time in half a century

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By Caroline Lewis Verified, Brittany Kriegstein Verified, Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
New York City is rejoicing Saturday night after the New York Knicks claimed their first NBA championship since 1973 — and set off a street party like no other in the five boroughs, five decades in the making. The victory marked the culmination of a two-month playoff run that captivated the region. And when the final buzzer rang, the shouting could be heard around the city.
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NYC erupts as Knicks win Game 5, NBA championship for first time in half a century

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By Caroline Lewis Verified, Brittany Kriegstein Verified, Stephen Nessen Verified, Arun Venugopal Verified, David Brand
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NFL 4 hours ago Former NFL defensive lineman Aldon Smith dies at age 36 ESPN - Nick Wagoner • 4h SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Former NFL defensive lineman Aldon Smith died Saturday in the Bay Area. He was 36.
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NJ Transit enters the global stage as World Cup games kick off at MetLife Stadium

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By Ramsey Khalifeh Verified, Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
North Jersey’s transportation networks will be put to the test Saturday as the Garden State’s slate of FIFA World Cup games kicks off at MetLife Stadium with a group match at 6 p.m. between Brazil and Morocco. The stadium’s parking lots will be closed to drivers, and event organizers are relying on NJ Transit trains, shuttle buses, and thousands of Uber and Lyft cars to get nearly 80,000 ticketholders into the stadium for each game.
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Will the deadly scooter vs. cyclist crash on Queensboro Bridge bike path serve as a wake-up call?

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday.
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Only Uber will be allowed to do drop-offs at NJ's World Cup games, officials warn

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Garden State officials on Wednesday warned World Cup ticketholders that there will be no cheap way to get to this summer’s games at MetLife Stadium. New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Priya Jain said fans can’t get dropped off in private vehicles and should avoid biking or hoofing it to the games, which are expected to draw nearly 80,000 attendees. “Do not plan on driving to the stadium.
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MTA advances long-awaited 2nd Avenue subway extension that's set to transform East Harlem

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The MTA broke ground Monday on a major milestone to advance the century-in-the-making effort to extend the Second Avenue subway into East Harlem, bringing three new stations to the neighborhood and connecting the Q line to the Metro-North and the Lexington Avenue subway lines at 125th Street. Crews began excavating a hole at East 119th Street and Second Avenue, which will make way for one of two tunnel boring machines that will dig out the new subway tunnel.
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Recent tunnel fires stoke fears about a World Cup transit meltdown

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. Tens of thousands of World Cup fans are counting on Amtrak’s infrastructure to get them safely to World Cup games starting on June 13.
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Mamdani picks street redesign pioneer Janette Sadik-Khan for MTA Board

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is sending a prominent street fighter to the MTA in his push for fast and free buses. Janette Sadik-Khan, a former commissioner of the city's Department of Transportation, is Mamdani’s choice to fill one of two vacant seats on the MTA board. Sadik-Khan served in former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration and was a key architect of the city’s bike lane network and current streetscape.
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Mamdani to announce bike lane plans that would finally end McGuinness Boulevard saga

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is closing the book on one of the city’s most controversial bike lane projects. Mamdani’s Department of Transportation is expected to announce Wednesday the redesign of McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn will be completed after years of delays.
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'The Ordinary Bus': Skincare company offers free rides between Domino and Prospect parks

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has yet to realize his campaign promise of making the buses fast and free — but one skincare company is offering free rides between two premier Brooklyn parks for the next two weeks. The Ordinary is offering a free hourly shuttle bus running between Domino Park on the Williamsburg waterfront and Prospect Park from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends, and noon to 7 p.m. on weekdays through June 9.
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LIRR strike ended with solid raises for workers, but no reforms to costly work rules

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The three-day Long Island Rail Road strike ended with a deal Monday that gave workers a solid raise — but the MTA settled without reforms to notorious work rules officials had sought in exchange for the pay bump. Throughout the strike, MTA Chair Janno Lieber said he wanted the unions to give up benefits that date back to when the LIRR was privately owned, like a rule that requires double pay for locomotive engineers who drive diesel and electric trains on the same shifts.
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LIRR service to remain suspended Tuesday morning as strike drags on

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Ramsey Khalifeh Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Long Island Rail Road service will remain suspended Tuesday morning as the MTA and striking labor unions could not reach a deal on Monday night in time to get crews in position to run trains, according to the transit agency and labor representatives.
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MTA raised alarms about Amtrak tunnel plan before this week's Penn Station meltdown

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
MTA officials spent months last year warning that an Amtrak construction plan would spark service meltdowns at Penn Station. That prediction proved true Thursday after a fire in an East River train tunnel sparked widespread service disruptions that continued into Saturday morning. Amtrak owns four East River tunnels that are also used by Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit trains.
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Down to the wire: LIRR slated to shut down at midnight unless MTA and unions reach a deal

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The Long Island Rail Road inched perilously close to a full shutdown on Friday as five unions prepared to go on strike if they don't reach a deal with the MTA by midnight. The deadline was the culmination of months of negotiations that included several interventions by an emergency board set up by President Donald Trump. But as of Friday morning, unions representing a majority of the LIRR’s workers still had not agreed to new contracts with the transit agency.
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Neither fast nor free: MTA fare crackdown slows some buses

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday.
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Fire breaks out at Penn Station, upending LIRR and NJ Transit service

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
A fire broke out in an East River train tunnel Thursday morning, upending service in and out of Penn Station. Amtrak spokesperson Jason Abrams said the blaze broke out at 11:25 a.m. in a tunnel that connects the Long Island Rail Road between Manhattan and Queens. He said the fire wasn’t put out until 12:55 p.m. The MTA halted Long Island Rail Road service in both directions between the train hub and Jamaica Station, and NJ Transit diverted all its Midtown Direct transit to Hoboken Terminal.
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NJ Transit plans to make train cars and stations smell like lavender

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The Garden State's official flower may be the blue violet, but the official smell of NJ Transit is now lavender. NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri on Tuesday announced the scent as the preferred fragrance for cleaning solutions the agency plans to use in stations and train cars. It’s part of a new push by Gov. Mikie Sherrill to make quick upgrades to the beleaguered transit system. “ I hope people smell lavender,” Kolluri said during a news conference.
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Old bridges above Brooklyn subway tracks are crumbling, with steel like Swiss cheese

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Two century-old bridges above a busy Brooklyn subway station have grown so corroded from a lack of maintenance that city officials have begun questioning their structural integrity, engineering records show. The bridges support the sections of Newkirk and Foster avenues on either side of Newkirk Plaza, which sits above the trench where the B and Q subway lines run.
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Congestion pricing takes a toll on South Bronx air quality, report finds

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. The Bronx just can’t catch a break.
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Congestion pricing takes a toll on South Bronx air quality, report finds

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
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New York Yankees Star Aaron Judge Can Make MLB History In Brewers Series On Friday night, the New York Yankees will open up a series with the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin.They are coming off a series where they took two …
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Historic LaGuardia Airport terminal deserted after Spirit Airlines shutdown

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Ramsey Khalifeh Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The abrupt shutdown of Spirit Airlines over the weekend has turned an entire terminal at LaGuardia Airport into a ghost town. Just last Friday, the airport’s tiny but mighty Marine Air Terminal was abuzz with Spirit Airlines passengers. The low-cost airline held the lease at all six of the gates at the landmarked terminal, which dates back to 1940 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Historic LaGuardia Airport terminal deserted after Spirit Airlines shutdown

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Ramsey Khalifeh Verified
| Flipboard
1 day ago Spirit Airlines customers across the country have been stranded due to the sudden closure of the low-cost carrier. For many, it meant quickly rebooking on another airline. For some, it meant they were left unable to return home. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a way back home,” Artyna Luke, who was …
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Trump’s Penn Station rebuild opens door to unifying New York’s railroads

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
For generations, New York City transportation planners have dreamed of a unified, regional transit system that would allow commuters to ride from New Jersey to Long Island without transferring. Gone would be the days of buying separate tickets from separate agencies run by separate states. The idea to unite New York and New Jersey’s busiest railroads has long been dismissed by elected officials on both sides of the Hudson River for logistical and political reasons.
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MTA braces for LIRR strike, threatens fare hike and service cuts if workers get demands

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The MTA is barreling toward a Long Island Rail Road strike as the agency remains deadlocked with a group of unions over pay increases and changes to work rules. The workers could walk off the job as soon as May 16, which would shut down the busiest commuter railroad in the United States. MTA leaders on Wednesday said they’re now preparing a fleet of shuttle buses and beginning to warn the railroad’s more than 300,000 daily riders to brace for a strike.
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'Hell no': G train riders to suffer more shutdowns as MTA struggles with upgrades to line

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Brooklyn lawmakers on Tuesday decried an MTA plan to close the sections of the G train on 10 weekends through the end of the year in order to make upgrades to the line, arguing the agency’s leaders didn’t care how the service disruptions would affect the line’s 160,000 daily riders. Councilmember Lincoln Restler, who represents Greenpoint, said MTA officials briefed local elected leaders on the outages last week.
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Train fight! Amtrak sues MTA amid long-running railroad feud

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Amtrak sued the MTA on Wednesday, claiming the New York transit agency has for more than a month refused to let the national railroad test its fancy new Acela trains on tracks owned by the Metro-North Railroad. The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan federal court, states the MTA “began systematically denying Amtrak’s requests for non-revenue train movements on both the New Haven Line and the Hudson Line” on March 18 in order to test its “NextGen” trains, which rolled out last year.
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World Cup fans face $150 train tickets to NJ games, regular riders get service cuts

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Fans attending this summer’s World Cup games at MetLife Stadium will have to pay sky-high transportation fees and deal with several security checkpoints just to get to the Meadowlands, according to a plan released Friday by NJ Transit and FIFA officials. NJ Transit will charge an eye-popping $150 for a round-trip train to each game, a major mark up of the usual $12.90 price. The special World Cup tickets will go on sale May 13 online.
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Mamdani administration's new 72nd Street bike lane would link Upper East and West sides

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The Mamdani administration is proposing a new bike lane on 72nd Street that would connect to Central Park, giving cyclists a new link between the East River and Hudson River. The Department of Transportation presented its plans for the two-way protected bike lane to Community Board 7 in the Upper West Side on Tuesday night. It included cutting the four lanes of traffic on 72nd Street in half and new turning restrictions to protect cyclists in the bike lane.
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Nothing boring about this: Big honking digging machines get built in New Jersey

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Crews in New Jersey are assembling a pair of custom-built machines that will dig out the first new set of Hudson River train tunnels in more than a century. Officials behind the $16 billion project, the centerpiece for the larger Gateway Program, showed off the high tech boring machines on Monday. Each one is made up of nearly a hundred pieces and when put together, will make up a 500-foot, 1,700-ton digging behemoth.
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LIRR workers warn of 'disaster for Long Island' as they prepare to strike in May

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The leaders of five unions representing more than half of the Long Island Rail Road workforce on Wednesday warned they were prepared to go on strike next month — and claimed that MTA officials have stonewalled contract negotiations. Kevin Sexton, national vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said during a press conference the workers would walk off the job on May 16 if they don’t reach a new collective bargaining agreement with the transit agency.
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Delivery workers can safely charge e-bikes, get some rest at NYC's new Deliverista Hub

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
An unused newspaper kiosk outside of City Hall has been converted into a hub for e-bike delivery workers to swap and charge batteries. The kiosk is now referred to as the City Hall Park Deliverista Hub and was funded with a $1 million federal grant, which paid for converting the 1980s-era newsstand into a sleek modern structure. ”You couldn't spend the million dollars any better way in Washington,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, who helped cut the ribbon Tuesday.
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MTA to move forward with Second Ave subway work, despite Trump's push to kill the project

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The MTA plans to move forward with a $1.1 billion contract to start digging and building a new train station at East 106th Street for the Second Avenue subway — despite a pending lawsuit the transit agency filed against the Trump administration over an order to halt funding for the megaproject. MTA officials said Friday they plan to bring the contract to the agency’s board for approval next week.
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NY’s transit unions are at war with Gov. Kathy Hochul

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. Contract negotiations with a pair of New York’s most powerful transit unions are looming over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election bid.
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MTA sues Trump administration over order to halt Second Avenue subway funding

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Ramsey Khalifeh Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The MTA sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for withholding federal funding for the expansion of the Second Avenue subway into East Harlem, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims, comes five months after the president’s Budget Director Russell Vought announced the White House would stop distributing a $3.4 billion grant for the project.
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Gowanus in 60 seconds: 5 luxury cars boosted from Brooklyn garage in overnight heist

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Call it Grand Theft Auto: Gowanus Edition. A brazen group of thieves boosted five luxury cars from a Brooklyn parking garage in an early morning heist on Sunday, according to the NYPD. Police said the bandits snuck into the garage, which is in a new apartment building on President Street a block away from the Gowanus Canal, around 5:15 a.m and made off with a Mercedes G550, a Range Rover, a BMW X5, an Audi SQ5, and an Audi Q5. The group ditched a lowly Hyundai on the street with its engine running.
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Transit workers union sues MTA over rule eliminating requirement for staffed token booths

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By Rhiannon Rashidi, Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
The powerful union representing transit workers has sued the MTA, seeking to block a new policy eliminating a staffing requirement for subway token booths. The new MTA policy, implemented in January, allows token booths to be unstaffed if the assigned booth agent is out sick or on vacation. The Transport Workers Union argued that the booth agents serve a vital, underappreciated role assisting riders, including those with disabilities.
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NJ Transit opens new bridge over Hackensack River, enabling faster train speeds

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By Stephen Nessen Verified, Ramsey Khalifeh Verified
| Gothamist Verified
NJ Transit trains will begin using a brand new bridge over the Hackensack River on Monday, marking the latest phase in a yearslong project to replace the century-old Portal Bridge, which caused headaches for riders for years. For the last month, NJ Transit and Amtrak reduced the number of trains running over the river while they switched service from the old crossing to the new one, called the Portal North Bridge. But officials said the temporary inconvenience will be worth the trouble.
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NY lawmakers, transit union makes fresh push to enshrine 2-person subway crews

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. When Rasheta Bunting, a blind woman from Canarsie, takes the subway, she relies on her cane to get to the center of the platform where the conductors’ cab is located.
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City plans bike lanes and bigger plazas for Manhattan's 14th Street busway

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
City officials on Monday said they’d start planning upgrades for pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders on 14th Street — Manhattan’s only “busway,” where most car traffic has been banned since 2019. It will be the first major redesign of the crosstown corridor since the traffic restrictions were put in place. From 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., only buses, trucks and emergency vehicles are allowed to drive along most of the street. It’s become a model for bus improvements across the five boroughs.
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Under oath, Mayor Mamdani's DOT chief declines to commit to bus and bike lane mandates

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
New York City Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn waffled on Tuesday when asked whether he’d make good on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s promise to aggressively add more bike and bus lanes across the five boroughs. During a City Council hearing, Transportation Chair Shaun Abreu pressed Flynn on his commitment to the “streets master plan,” a law passed in 2019 that mandates the DOT install 30 miles of new bus lanes and 50 miles of new protected bike lanes each year.
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With fixes still up in the air, will the BQE become NYC’s own Big Dig?

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. New York is among the big cities around the country grappling with a crumbling problem: What to do with highways built more than a half-century ago? These cities face a stark choice — tear them down or replace them.
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In reversal, Hochul says no way on Waymo outside New York City

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By Ramsey Khalifeh Verified, Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Gov. Kathy Hochul has spiked plans to allow companies like Waymo to test self-driving cars outside the Big Apple. Hochul had first pitched the plan in her State of the State address last month. A Siena Research poll released earlier this month found that self-driving cars are deeply unpopular in New York.
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Immigrant New Yorkers denied commercial driver licenses following Trump funding threat

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By Jessica Gould Verified, Stephen Nessen Verified, Karen Yi Verified
| Gothamist Verified
New York’s DMV has stopped issuing commercial driver licenses to many immigrants following an order from the Trump administration – a move unions say has major implications for the MTA and school bus service.
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Why doesn't NYC use a giant snow vacuum like Montreal? Its world-famous garbage.

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
New Yorkers are so filthy that snow removal techniques used in other cities just won’t cut it. Sanitation officials in Montreal, Canada, use a giant snow vacuum that sucks up the snow from the street and deposits it in a dump truck. The gadget looks like it would come in handy in New York City, where three-week-old piles of snow are still blocking crosswalks, bike lanes and sidewalks.
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Why doesn't NYC use a giant snow vacuum like Montreal? Its world-famous garbage.

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Flipboard
2 hours ago Even with lower interest rates, price growth in major Canadian real estate markets is diverging as cheaper regions post bigger gains than more expensive cities. The biggest example of the divergence is in Quebec City, Canada’s strongest market, with a 14-per-cent increase year-over-year in housing …
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Mamdani to revive Bronx bus lane killed by ex-Mayor Eric Adams

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday announced plans to aggressively upend his predecessor’s legacy for killing street redesign projects. The mayor joined MTA Chair Janno Lieber to unveil a plan to install an offset bus lane — painted in red on the street next to parked cars — along Fordham Road in the Bronx. Ex-Mayor Eric Adams notoriously killed a plan to bring more bus priority to the busy thoroughfare after facing pushback from local businesses and institutions.
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Self-driving cars wildly unpopular in New York, poll finds

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By Stephen Nessen Verified
| Gothamist Verified
New Yorkers are saying no way to the type of driverless taxis operated by the company Waymo. A majority of New Yorkers asked in a recent poll said they oppose the driverless robot cars over concerns about lost jobs for drivers, as well as the taxis' ability to drive in bad weather on the city’s chaotic streets.
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