Liam Quigley
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- Sep 29, 2026
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NYC eyes higher fines for owners of dirty vacant lots, abandoned construction sites (opens the original)
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New York City sanitation officials plan to jack up fines on the owners of dirty vacant lots in an effort to cut down on the trashy eyesores. The sanitation department wrote in a notice Monday it planned to increase fines for failure to maintain vacant lots from $100 to $250. City regulations require owners of abandoned lots to keep their property, sidewalk and 18 inches into the street free of litter and obstructions. The rule changes would also reclassify dormant or abandoned construction sites
Dump truck driver hits and kills cyclist on 34th Street in Midtown, NYPD says (opens the original)
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A dump truck driver struck and killed a bicyclist on a busy stretch of West 34th Street in Midtown on Monday morning, then left the scene, according to the NYPD. The bicyclist and truck driver were both travelling near Seventh Avenue when they collided around 10:51 a.m., police said. Bystanders called 911, but the bicyclist was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS workers. Police said they later found the dump truck driver and questioned them, but did not make an arrest. The NYPD has not released
City mulls bike lane for Grand Central Terminal's elevated street loop (opens the original)
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The elevated section of Park Avenue that snakes around Grand Central Terminal would get a bike lane under a design floated by the city transportation department this week. The viaduct runs between East 40th to 46th streets, splitting the avenue in two as the street elevates and runs around either side of the first floor of the busy train hub. Both ends reconnect to the street out of an arch in the Helmsley Building. Cyclists who ride on the structure have to share space with cars, and the elevat
NYC's top watchdog launches probe into what mayors knew about post-9/11 air (opens the original)
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New York City’s top watchdog agency has hired a team of lawyers to investigate exactly what city officials knew about health hazards from toxic dust created by the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11. In a notice issued on Friday, the Department of Investigation said it selected a firm to “ascertain the knowledge possessed by mayoral administrations on environmental toxins produced by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.” The investigation is mandated by a City Council resolution pass
NYC deploys robotoilets. The public bathrooms have a strict 10-minute time limit. (opens the original)
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A suite of high-tech public restrooms has started to land in New York City as part of a push by the mayor’s office to make it easier for people to find a place to go while they’re on the go. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced the first two modular bathrooms the city ordered earlier this year from the company Throne Labs started to operate on city streets. The rest, a total of 17, are expected to come online in the coming months. The robotoilets of tomorrow can be opened only by texting
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