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Lone UWS Train Station Has Chance Of Added Platform Door: MTA
With mounting safety concerns, the MTA just released a huge study on whether platform edge doors could be built into the NYC subway system.

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With mounting safety concerns, the MTA just released a huge study on whether platform edge doors could be built into the NYC subway system.

With mounting safety concerns, the MTA just released a huge study on whether platform edge doors could be built into the subway system.
Nearly 80 firefighters responded to a blaze at 111 Wadsworth Avenue in Washington Heights on Wednesday night, FDNY told Patch.
Victoria Kristy has lived on the UWS for 47 years, but her family's story begins in Poland during the onset of the Holocaust.
Suryanarayan "Suri" Hegde, who has dementia, never came back home after telling his family he was going to the store on Saturday night.
Eater NY recently compiled a list of 2022's most anticipated restaurant openings. Here are the featured spots coming to Lower Manhattan.
The Dyckman Run Club, which Jason Rivera was a part of, is hosting a special run for the fallen officer and Inwood native on Thursday.
Council Member Gale Brewer will be handing out at-home COVID tests and masks on Wednesday at 563 Columbus Avenue, near West 87th Street.
A man was shot in the arm Tuesday within the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, police told Patch. He is expected to survive.
The plainclothes police, which were phased out in 2020, are returning to parts of the city, including Washington Heights and Inwood.
The Wallace Hotel, at 242 West 76th Street, is set to add a 55 seat bar in the lobby and an 18,000 square feet event space in the basement.
Police sources told the Daily News that the woman lay down in the middle of the UWS street before the van hit and killed her on Monday.
After receiving publicity for offering 25 cent martinis, a West Village bar was told it can't sell drinks for less than half off.
NYPD told the WestSideRag that the man, who has dementia, told his family he was going to Zabar's Saturday and never returned.
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Hudson Grace is opening its first New York City location at 405 Bleecker Street. Here's what you'll be able to find in the store.
A 43-year-old woman was struck and killed by a van around 11:50 a.m. on the street in front of 201 West 93rd Street, police said.
Just over a month after the West Village recorded the highest COVID rate in NYC, the ZIP code is now near the bottom in positivity rate.
"I love you till the end of time," the widow of police officer Jason Rivera wrote in an emotional goodbye to her gunned-down husband.
With a row of skyscrapers in the background, a bald eagle swooped in for its dinner over the Central Park Reservoir this weekend.