JFK Airport’s AirTrain could be free this summer amid $19 billion...
The AirTrain at JFK costs $8.50. But that could change.The Port Authority expects the construction will cause significant traffic, and is considering options to incentivize mass transit use. [ more › ]
View ArticleExtra Extra: Checking up on what's in and what's out
Because we gotta do it from time to time, here are your afternoon links: Egg salad, Eric Adams, Kevin Costner, "Bridgerton," boat shoes, pigeon racing and more. [ more › ]
View ArticleThe NYC-Dublin portal is back online — with some new restrictions
“Knowing New Yorkers, this thing’s probably not going to remain open,” said one visitor. [ more › ]
View ArticleBrooklyn Sen. Kevin Parker won’t face charges for Albany altercation
Parker won't face charges for an altercation he had with a well known Albany advocate.A disability rights advocate says he dropped his case against the Brooklyn senator after working out their...
View ArticleLifeguard staffing may stunt beach openings this Memorial Day weekend,...
Lifeguards keep watch as the beach stands closed to swimmers at Rockaway Beach in New York.Some beaches could be open for fewer hours if the city fails to fill hundreds of vacant lifeguard positions,...
View ArticleAnchors aweigh: A look ahead at NYC's 2024 Fleet Week festivities
U.S. servicemembers gather for a group photo in Times Square, as part of Fleet Week celebrations in New York on May 24, 2023.Vessels will travel up the Hudson River, passing by the Intrepid Museum. [...
View Article64 office buildings in NYC could become new housing
55 Broad St, once the headquarters for Goldman Sachs, will have 571 apartment units.The city's planning department says seven office conversion projects are underway or recently completed. [ more › ]
View ArticleEarly Addition: Put the 'Saturday Night Fever' dance floor in your living room
Because it'll cost $300,000 but it's worth it, here are your early links: scam apartment listings, National Grid rate hikes, Avril Lavigne truthers and more. [ more › ]
View ArticleNYPD: Two men suspected in Brooklyn gender-based hate crime
The intersection of Boerum Street and Bushwick Avenue near where police say two men attacked a gender nonconforming person.Police say two suspects attacked a gender nonconforming person. [ more › ]
View ArticleJim Parsons and Jessica Lange on their new Broadway show 'Mother Play'
Jim Parsons, Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in "The Mother Play."The latest work from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is running now at the Helen Hayes Theater. [ more › ]
View ArticleExtra Extra: Inside the Sherpa community that traded Everest for Queens
Because a ton of former mountain guides are now living, climbing and driving Ubers in New York City, here are your afternoon links: Bad news for bodegas, Hilary Duff wrote a good kids book, Zionism and...
View ArticleCould MTA's fight against fare beating force passengers to prove they paid?
Surveillance footage shared by the MTA showing a man using the "back-cocking" maneuver to avoid paying his subway fare.MTA Chair Janno Lieber did not rule out implementing a system that would require...
View ArticleEarly childhood education at center of budget talks between Mayor Adams and...
Families and City Council members rallied at City Hall for early childhood education funding.City Council members rallied days after some 2,500 families did not receive offers to free 3-K programs. [...
View ArticleNYC’s tough new shelter rules for migrants kick in. The impacts remain to be...
Migrants waited in line outside the city's reticketing center in the East Village on Wednesday morning to reapply for shelter, after their 30- and 60-day stays came to an end. The size of the line...
View ArticleNYC driver 'Squeeze.Benz' - who outran police in YouTube videos - gets arrested
Police said they'd arrested the daredevil driver "Squeeze.Benz."Police said they had arrested Antonio Ginestri, 19, who posted wild racing videos under the handle “Squeeze.Benz.” [ more › ]
View ArticleNassau police held in contempt of court over $100k phone directory
Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder (left) and officers demonstrate body cameras footage, a transparency message. But the department won't release its phone directory.A four-year legal battle over...
View ArticleNYC beach season is back. But what about the sharks?
Lifeguarding supervisor Cary Epstein operates a new shark-monitoring drone as he monitors the waters for sharks at Jones Beach State Park on July 7, 2023 in Wantagh, N.Y.After a summer of multiple...
View ArticleForecasters: NYC could get hail, lightning Thursday ahead of pleasant...
Storm clouds will gather over New York City before pleasant weather breaks through.Thursday late morning and afternoon could be a little rough, but the weekend is expected to be mostly sunny and warm....
View ArticleEarly Addition: The Coney Island boardwalk doesn't fix itself
Because Donald Grupski does, here are your early links: 8th graders to take field trips to Museum of Jewish Heritage, Trump rally in the South Bronx, microplastics in testicles and more. [ more › ]
View ArticleShould you quit therapy? New Yorkers weigh in on when it was time to call it...
A woman engaged in therapy on her smartphone.What if you're not getting anything out of therapy? What if it’s making you feel worse? [ more › ]
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