NYC's new greenway master plan plots world of possibilities to get around city

Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay

Weather: ⛅ Partly cloudy, with possible afternoon thunderstorms and highs in the lower 90s.

It's Wednesday in New York City, where you could one day be able to walk the entire perimeter of Manhattan without needing to detour onto local streets.

Under the "Greater Greenways" plans — the city's first official master plan for an upgraded greenway network in more than 30 years — the city would start adding dozens of miles of car-free pathways as soon as 2028.

Here's a map of where transportation officials want to add new greenways.

And here's what else is happening:

• The NYPD said officers shot an armed 22-year-old man last night after they interrupted a gunfight in Flatbush.
• Police this morning were looking for a driver they said struck and killed a man near JFK Airport in a hit-and-run.
• Mohamed Bahi, a former aide to Mayor Eric Adams, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal conspiracy charges for seeking illegal donations to Adams' 2021 campaign.
• The Central Park Conservancy has come out against horse-drawn carriages for the first time, throwing its weight behind a City Council bill that would ban the industry.
• A federal judge yesterday issued a temporary restraining order requiring ICE holding rooms in New York City to meet certain minimum conditions.
  • The decision follows a lawsuit alleging that immigrants detained at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan face "crowded, squalid and punitive conditions" and are being deprived of access to attorneys.
• Officials from New York state’s economic development authority say there’s a reason they’re not collecting millions of dollars in penalties from the real estate firm behind the failed Atlantic Yards affordable housing project: The company threatened to sue them if they tried.
• A Schenectady man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing a shotgun outside an Albany synagogue during Hanukkah celebrations in 2023.
• The Port Authority said it's closing the Hoboken PATH stop over Labor Day weekend to repair equipment that was installed just six months ago.
• The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted yesterday to landmark five architecturally and historically significant buildings in Midtown, a few days after the City Council approved a plan to rezone the neighborhood.

• The data indicates that rich people are not hogging rent-stabilized New York City apartments. 
• Meanwhile, a New York Rangers left winger is living rent-free this summer in a Rangers superfan's basement in Darien, Connecticut.
• New York's largest emitter of methane is an upstate landfill that was supposed to close at the end of this year. It may remain open until 2040 thanks to the political efforts of the Texas-based company that owns it.
• Authorities said an NJ Transit bus hit a utility truck in Newark yesterday, sending 14 people to the hospital.
• Al Bevilacqua, a revered Long Island wrestling coach who Billy Baldwin credited as "a second father to me," has died at the age of 85.
• Pete Alonso yesterday set a new record for the most home runs in Mets history, passing Darryl Strawberry.
• The White House will, in some capacity, host a UFC fight next summer during the semiquincentennial celebrations.
• Things are not looking up for fast-casual chain Cava.
• Things are really not looking up for the Texas mini-chain Trump Burger, whose co-owner is a 28-year-old Lebanese immigrant who's facing deportation for allegedly overstaying his visa.