Ramsey Khalifeh
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NYC subway boss says man dragged to death by train was 'unsteady' and used a cane (opens the original)
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The man who was dragged to death by a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn on Monday was “unsteady” and using a cane as he exited the car onto the platform, NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said during a news conference Wednesday. The NYPD initially reported the man — identified as 57-year-old Yaw Boahene — died after his shopping bag got caught in the closing door of a Manhattan-bound A train at Utica Avenue around 5:48 p.m. on Monday. Crichlow said crews investigated the train’s doors af
MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses (opens the original)
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The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. The transit agency's vehicles are all built in the United States but rely on components manufactured abroad. MTA officials said during a board meeting that Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminum, copper and other materials inflated building costs and threatened to “dilute the value” of the MTA’s five-year construction plan. “Today’s tariffs
NYPD investigates after a woman was found dead in Central Park (opens the original)
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A 63-year-old woman was found dead in Central Park Sunday morning with trauma to her head, according to the NYPD. Police said they responded to a 911 call of an unconscious person in the area of the park near East Drive and East 74th Street at around 9:43 a.m. When emergency medical services arrived, they pronounced the woman dead on the scene. Later Sunday evening, police arrested 36-year-old Jonathan Robles and charged him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Records show Robles re
Driving to death: NYC yellow taxi drivers keep dying on the job, unable to make ends meet (opens the original)
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Babacar Dem was nearing the end of another long shift last month behind the wheel of his yellow cab when he took a break to use the restroom at a chicken shop in the Central Bronx. “They went to check on him in the bathroom and they found he was lying down,” said Muhammad Camara, who was working at Kennedy Fried Chicken when firefighters broke down the door to find Dem. He was pronounced dead at BronxCare nearby, according to a representative for the hospital. Dem's family took his body back to
Congestion pricing funds $5 million program for overnight truck deliveries in NYC (opens the original)
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The city is dangling one-time cash payments to local businesses that shift their deliveries overnight in an effort to reduce daytime traffic. The city's Department of Transportation announced Wednesday it will begin distributing $5 million in congestion pricing revenue to incentivize small businesses to change their delivery schedules. The move is part of a larger goal to shift 62,000 daily truck trips to off-hour delivery — between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. — by 2040. Roughly 90% of goods and deliverie
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