#elevator-outages

#elevator-outages

Ocasio-Cortez emphasized the need to protect the community, stating, 'On behalf of my constituents and nearly 64,000 local residents impacted by this project, I am requesting that your administration reject any plans to expand the Cross Bronx Expressway beyond its current footprint.'

"The landlord did not pay attention to this house whatsoever. We didn't even know we had a landlord."

The emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital was built to care for about 150 patients a day, but now sees more than 300 patients daily, amounting to about 107,000 patients last year in a space designed for 50,000 annually.

The Grand Penn proposal would move Madison Square Garden across Seventh Avenue, onto or near the former Hotel Pennsylvania site, and use the freed-up space above Penn Station to build a much grander, roomier train hall.

Nishath Jannath was crossing the street at 62nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside around 11:55 p.m. when she was hit by the driver as they turned into the crosswalk.

TSA wait times at NYC-area airports have increased significantly due to a staffing crisis caused by unpaid agents. Callouts have reached alarming rates, with some airports seeing 40% of TSA officers absent from work.

The Goddess escalator, which takes almost 21 minutes to ascend, is almost certainly the world's largest of its kind, cutting through the center of Wushan and rising straight into the sky.

The first three months of 2026 were among the three safest first-three-month periods since records started being kept at the dawn of the Automobile Age, with only 42 fatalities from car crashes in New York City.

How buildings are designed impacts people's lives every day. If every day you're living in a space where you can't use your home, that gnaws away at you.

In that small 30-block zone last year, there were 486 reported crashes, injuring 76 cyclists, 108 pedestrians (one fatally) and 67 motorists, according to city stats. That's more than a crash every day, injuring more than 250 people.

A culvert on the side of Interstate 88 collapsed about 90 miles west of Albany, sending construction crews scrambling and motorists looking for detours.

The MTA is replacing aging trains that have been running since the 1980s. More than 2,300 subway cars will be purchased, replacing nearly a third of the current subway fleet.

A bridge failure might sound like something from a blockbuster, but real damage usually creeps in slowly. Across the nation, engineers watch thousands of bridges that remain open, yet are far from their best condition. "Structurally deficient" is not a death sentence, but it signals repairs can no longer wait. These 10 bridges handle massive traffic and are a serious concern nationwide today.

"When the elevator is broken, we need to stay home," said Aleksandra, 79, who uses a walker and asked that her last name not be used for fear of causing trouble with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which runs the complex. "I live five floors up, she lives third floor, he lives seven or eight floors," she said, nodding toward Valeriy Feldman, 85, who uses a wheelchair. Translating Feldman's words from Russian, Aleksandra added: "Every time, it's a problem for him."