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Ask the MTA | Queens bus network redesign, subway elevators and prepping for hurricanes

Posted on July 21, 2024

G train running in Brooklyn

Ask the MTA | Meet the G Train czar, 4th of July service, and elevator replacements

Posted on June 23, 2024

Bicyclists attend MTA press conference

Ask the MTA | Bike racks on buses, community signs and Earth Day celebrations

Posted on April 7, 2024

Ask the MTA station upgrade progress

Ask the MTA | Subway station improvements, passenger counters and broken PA systems

Posted on February 11, 2024

Penn Station concourse

Ask the MTA | Penn Station vendors, job opportunities and traveling with pets

Posted on January 14, 2024

MTA bus camera enforcement

Ask the MTA | Strategic Action Plan, emergency brakes and reduced fare MetroCards

Posted on December 10, 2023

New York Road Runners New York City Marathon

Ask the MTA | NYC Marathon service, Penn Station access and security cameras

Posted on October 15, 2023

MTA Parade of Trains in Coney Island, Brooklyn

Ask the MTA | Train history, ADA accessibility and express bus seating

Posted on September 17, 2023

ADA accessibility sign in Brooklyn

Ask the MTA | ADA upgrades, TrainTime App and shuttle train wraps

Posted on June 25, 2023

A G train at the Court Square station in Long Island City, Queens.

Ask the MTA | Why the G train is short, and upcoming ADA upgrades to Brooklyn station

Posted on May 28, 2023

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Ask the MTA | ADA accessibility, OMNY tap tracking and MetroCard purchasing options

Posted on April 30, 2023

New Yorker of the Week | Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright looks to be a champion for New York’s disabled

Posted on January 25, 2023

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Big Apple Buzz | Noel Ashman hosts big bash, Mayor Adams shops Saks Fifth Avenue and more

Posted on January 11, 2023

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Big Apple Buzz | The hottest New Year’s Eve party, latest on ‘GMA’ love triangle and more

Posted on January 4, 2023

Ask the MTA about Bronx bus changes

Ask the MTA | Bus reroutes in the Bronx, and public safety in the subways

Posted on September 11, 2022

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Big Apple Buzz | Leonardo DiCaprio donates to Moonlight Gala, Olivia Munn and John Mulaney out and about, and more

Posted on June 28, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Alec Baldwin at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards – Arrivals – Los Angeles

Big Apple Buzz: Alec Baldwin spotted in Manhattan, Ryan Seacrest responds to Andy Cohen and more

Posted on January 11, 2022

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Fight, don’t starve: NYC restaurant workers threaten mass exodus amid Omicron unless paid livable wage

Posted on December 21, 2021

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MTA to vaccinate 200 transit workers per day in Downtown Brooklyn

Posted on February 23, 2021

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Leonard Levitt, former amNewYork and Newsday columnist, dead at 79

Posted on May 18, 2020

Maisel: Giving the gift of life to seriously ill coronavirus patients

Posted on April 17, 2020

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Flushing’s Nan Xiang reopens as soup dumpling parlor

Posted on November 6, 2019

Immigrant asylum in a Brooklyn collective house

Posted on October 9, 2019

A topsy-turvy Washington order

Posted on October 9, 2019

Police Commissioner James O'Neill, left, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, and NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker at Tuesday's crime statistics briefing. Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

After a friendly fire shooting

Posted on October 8, 2019

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Race factors in reporting of criminal justice

Posted on October 8, 2019

The city is debating the future of gifted and talented education. Lou Lahana, a Manhattan teacher, is trying an alternative enrichment model.

‘A little bit of chaos’ and ‘passion-based learning’ in Manhattan

Posted on October 7, 2019

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Max Rose in the middle

Posted on October 4, 2019

A Zelensky story in New York

Posted on October 2, 2019

Get ready to tune in to ‘The Impeachment Show’

Posted on October 2, 2019

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‘We can figure this out’: MTA driver on bus living

Posted on October 1, 2019

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Joe Biden could be a Rudy Giuliani casualty

Posted on October 1, 2019

On Andrew Yang, the last Democratic 2020 New Yorker

Posted on September 30, 2019

A chill, if careful, read by Mayor Pete

Posted on September 30, 2019

In a town hall east of New York City, a sign of some of the challenges of impeachment.

Impeachment, a challenge for some NY Democrats

Posted on September 25, 2019

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Can we take back Mayor de Blasio’s key to NYC?

Posted on September 25, 2019

An annual report is out with most (but not all) of the numbers that make up NYC. Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang

NYC by the numbers

Posted on September 24, 2019

Smog and a climate week in New York

Posted on September 24, 2019

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Two more cases of racism in New York City

Posted on September 24, 2019

Liquid traps, rat bags, and a brief history of NYC animal politics

Posted on September 18, 2019

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There’s a political solution to protect endangered animals

Posted on September 18, 2019

An abolitionist group is protesting part of the plan to close Rikers Island, with a related vote imminent.

No New Jails and the bid to close Rikers

Posted on September 17, 2019

NYPD needs a competent spokesperson

Posted on September 17, 2019

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Warren’s path, through New York

Posted on September 16, 2019

Why ‘Mookie’ grasps ‘Moscow Mitch’ moniker

Posted on September 13, 2019

A crucial commission has its first public hearing in NYC. It got tense. Photo Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.

Fusion, public campaign finance, and a ‘laboratory for democracy’

Posted on September 11, 2019

Biden’s book ahead of Democratic debate

Posted on September 10, 2019

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‘Out of the rubble came her hand’: An oral history of 9/‌11

Posted on September 9, 2019

More from around NYC

People from as far away as the Jersey Shore traveled to see the Corpse Flower in bloom in 2016. It was the first time since the 1930s that the flower has returned to the NYBG.

Corpse flower’s frightful bloom returns to NYBG just in time for Halloween

Marin Pieciak admitted he fatally stabbed 41-year-old Sarah McNally because she was planning on moving back to her native Ireland after a decade in Queens.

Glendale man pleads guilty to fatally stabbing girlfriend at Maspeth tavern: DA

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Driver fatally strikes 84-year-old pedestrian in Borough Park

The Texas Supreme Court building.

Texas Supreme Court says judges with religious objections can refuse to perform weddings