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MTA Blames Canceled Express Bus Trips On Driver Shortages
While more than 95% of scheduled trips do take place, 80% of those that do not, result from not having enough operators.

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While more than 95% of scheduled trips do take place, 80% of those that do not, result from not having enough operators.

Prosecutors alleged that the indicted NYCHA staffers had for years pocketed a total of $2 million in bribes.
Without the club, “I’d either be dead or in jail,” Guzman said.
Records obtained by THE CITY reveal widespread disregard of summonses for retailing batteries without safety certification.
New rules passed by Albany will affect thousands of New York City apartments — but include big exceptions.
The federal consent decree known as the Baez agreement has helped push the city housing authority to make much-needed repairs faster.
The New York City Housing Authority sent out robocalls at 4:45 p.m., nine hours after flooding began.
Two migrants have filed wage theft complaints to the state labor department, alleging thousands of dollars of unpaid labor and overtime.
Officials granted a temporary certificate of occupancy on the basis that the operator would put in a round-the-clock fire watch guard.
Many of the documents detail incidents like stolen phones and fights that could have happened at any of the city’s hundreds of shelters.
“Illegal cannabis shops, this is your warning: you will be locked out if you attempt to continue to sell illegal items," Adams said.
Crackdowns on Roosevelt Avenue continued on Wednesday, vendors and advocates said.
Coveted Cadman Towers apartments sell for a mere five figures.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) had sought last year to terminate officers Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis at trial.
Touré, the 63-year-old vendor on Fordham Road, said business has also been especially difficult under sanitation’s enforcement regime,
Judge Clarke held that the “illogical and unnecessarily circuitous routes” aren’t giving people with disabilities comparable service.
Containers for organic waste, which includes compostable food scraps, will cost $43.47 for a bin that holds 20 to 25 gallons.
The number of trains hitting people has surged nearly 30% since 2018, even as the ridership remains well below the pre-pandemic mark.
Calls mounted from elected officials for disciplinary actions to be taken against police officers D’Andraia and Edelman.
city officials say the landlord already provided them with a clean bill of health, but NYS health dept. wants to test for contaminants.