Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins

Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay

Weather: ☀️ Sunny with highs in the mid 90s, as dangerous heat and humidity set in for the next two days.

It's Tuesday in New York City, where the Upper West and East Sides of Manhattan are set to lose about 10% of their street parking as the city installs new curbside trash containers.

The "Empire Bins" containerization plan — which is designed to get trash bags off the curb and thereby minimize rat and stench problems — calls for removing up to 29,842 street parking spots across the city by 2032.

But the transition is expected to be especially angsty on the Upper East and West Sides, where about 23% of households own a car and street parking is extra competitive.

Here's how the neighborhoods are bracing themselves.

And here's what else is happening:

• At least 374 people in New York City have so far been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, the punishing form of food poisoning spreading via raw produce. Here's how to avoid having a Hot Diarrhea Summer.
• Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered a one-year moratorium on large data centers in New York.
• Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to transform an underused NYPD parking lot in the East Village into an affordable housing development.
• MetroLoft, the developer behind an office-to-housing conversion project that triggered a mass evacuation in Midtown and an ongoing criminal investigation is now eyeing its next project inside a 23-story Financial District high-rise, property records show.
  • The building on 42nd Street that nearly collapsed has been stabilized, for now. Will tenants still want to move in if and when the apartments are ready?
• New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said the federal government's latest reversal on plans to convert a Roxbury warehouse into an ICE detention center is nonsensical and doesn't change the fact that a court has stayed work on the project.
  • Meanwhile, Gov. Hochul has pressed the Trump administration for details on reported expansions of immigration detention facilities in upstate New York.
• Mayor Mamdani said he's standing by his top political adviser, Morris Katz, who's facing widespread criticism for his role in Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s scandal-ridden Senate campaign.

• Congestion pricing did not end up prompting more drivers to gobble up parking spots outside the tolling zone, according to a new study by the city's transportation department. 
• The World Cup hasn't delivered for local hotels, but the bars have struck gold.
• The Bushwick Inlet waterfront is set to get a 1,300-unit high-rise. Some locals would rather the area be parkland.
• The Giglio has been lifted, Williamsburg's Lady of Mount Carmel Feast is on.
• A 40-foot Trojan horse has been erected outside the AMC Lincoln Square to promote "The Odyssey."
• A bunch of places around town now offer soft-serve margaritas.
• Don't fall asleep in the Waymo.