Each of the eight match days is also being designated a Gridlock Alert Day, and while regular city bus and Access-A-Ride service will continue on those days, it may be slower than usual in Midtown. Subway use is encouraged instead. NJ Transit train service will be adjusted during match days as well, although LIRR, Metro-North and PATH service are expected to operate as normal.
According to JLJ IV Enterprise's Manhattan Supreme Court suit, as its construction crew worked to fix Midtown sewers, unauthorized contractors for Con Edison entered the worksite after hours and removed a large steel plate that had been covering a massive sewer trench near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 55th Street. The suit alleges that Con Edison intentionally chose to enter the secured site without permission, sever the welds securing the steel plate to the trench, remove the plate, and leave it entirely unsecured and dangerously susceptible to movement.
All NJ Transit service into and out of Manhattan's Penn Station was suspended Friday morning following a fire in the Hudson River Tunnel connecting the Manhattan transit hub to New Jersey, causing a rush hour nightmare for thousands of commuters.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday morning with members of the Bronx's Muslim community, joining public prayers on the soccer field at Macombs Dam Park near Yankee Stadium while wearing a kurta styled after an Arsenal jersey. The outfit nodded to Mamdani's well-documented love of Arsenal, the north London soccer club. Recently, Hizzoner was among the fans celebrating Arsenal's Premier League title with the Brooklyn Invincibles, a New York supporters group that gathers in Fort Greene.
The NYC Commission on Human Rights-the agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws that protect against employment, disability, and housing discrimination-saw its budget line shrink in Mayor Zohran Mamdani's executive budget proposal, published earlier this month. The cuts would reduce the already slim agency's budget by 6 percent and slash its headcount by eight full time employees. The Commission on Human Rights had a 23 percent vacancy rate as of March, according to officials who testified before the City Council.
The city will provide new technical and financial support to homeowners who want to build accessory dwelling units ADUs on their properties, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce Tuesday. ADUs, or so-called granny flats, are independent residences on the same lot as one-family or two-family homes, and depending on location are also called in-law suites, backyard cottages or basement apartments.
