The Briefly for September 6, 2018 – A New Entrance to Penn Station, Ice Cream Noise Complaints, and More
A ballot initiative in November will give voters the option to lower the maximum donation in city elections from $5,100 to $2,000.
There were 1,279 ice cream truck noise complaints in the last year.
Does New York City needs the BQX? Curbed asks if the $2.7 billion streetcar project is worth the price after the recent revision to the plan.
The governor is rumored to announce a new entrance to Penn Station on Thursday morning. 650,000 use Penn Station on a daily basis and that number is expected to double in the next 15 years.
A flight from Dubai to JFK touched down with multiple people sick with flu-like symptoms. One of the people trapped on the "flu plane" was Vanilla Ice.
The World Trade Center/Cortland St subway stop opens this Saturday.
"The culture is double parking!" Inwood's bike lane drama is getting complicated.
“Equal Pay for Equal Work” has an origin story in NYC classrooms.
Landlords in the city owe more than $1.5 billion in fines. Kushner Companies owes the city over $500,000 alone.
The New York Wheel, Staten Island's giant ferris wheel, may never be built. The contractor walked off the job in May and the whole project has become a series of lawsuits. The original plan had the wheel opening in October 2016 and costing $250 million. The current estimate is $600 million and it's unknown if it will ever be built.
The Supreme Court decision that allowed government workers to not pay union dues is costing the city's unions over $100,000 a week.
Will Governor Cuomo's endorsement hurt Leticia James's bid for Attorney General?
This year's cronut is Duck's Eatery's smoked watermelon “ham.” Each costs $75 and they're sold out through November.
The largest state park in New York City will open next summer in Brooklyn and will be named after Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress.
LIRR delays are the worst they've been in over 18 years. The MTA is fine.
Passenger service ended sixty five years ago on Staten Island's North Shore Branch and there are still ghosts of the rail line marking the island.
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