It's Friday in New York City, where the MTA has approved a combined $10.8 billion to fix or upgrade subway signal systems, many of which date to the 1930s.
But none of that money will go towards upgrading even a single inch of track in the Bronx.
The Lower Manhattan federal building that houses ICE offices was evacuated yesterday afternoon after five envelopes containing an unidentified white powder were discovered in the mailroom.
After a seven-week respite, Zohran Mamdani is recalling his legion of volunteer supporters to resume knocking on doors ahead of the general mayoral election.
Andrew Cuomo, who ran a disastrous Rose Garden strategy in the Democratic primary, now looks like the aggressive underdog. Zohran Mamdani, meanwhile, has spent the last several weeks fending off rivals’ attacks on his policies and personal life.
Visits to office buildings in the city’s commercial districts were up 1.3% last month compared to July 2019, marking a milestone in the city’s slow and steady resurgence since the pandemic and placing New York at the forefront of major cities across the country.
Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, a 20-year-old Brooklyn high school student originally from Guinea, was detained by ICE last week at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
