The MTA is taking another swipe at tapping into technology that can detect when a person, object or animal is about to end up on the subway tracks. The transportation authority is seeking a provider to design, build and test an artificial intelligence-supported track intrusion detection system, according to a contract notice it posted in […]

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Six years after the pandemic shuttered businesses across New York, the city’s commercial corridors have not quite recovered, reflected in persistent storefront vacancies. That’s according to a new report by the city comptroller’s office, which for the first time tracked ground-level data — indexing every visible storefront in New York City — and found that […]

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You get home, flick your lights on, run your air conditioner, charge your phone. As of this month, there’s a chance the electricity you’re using is generated from dams in Quebec, Canada, and arrived at your apartment via a line that snakes more than 330 miles long. A massive transmission line called the Champlain Hudson […]

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Eight years after New York State launched a high-profile task force to confront maternal deaths and racial disparities in childbirth outcomes, state auditors say health officials are only now making “significant” progress implementing reforms — even as Black women continue dying at disproportionately high rates. For Bruce McIntyre, whose longtime partner Amber Isaac died during […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Applications opened Tuesday for the inaugural year of New York City’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds. Part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability campaign for free universal childcare, 2-K will for the first time in the city’s history offer free care for 2-year-olds […]

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