MTA nixes elevators at subway stations after congestion pause

Plus: A summer camp for the city's homeless youth [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [MTA nixes elevators at NYC subway station where woman died carrying stroller on stairs]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☁️ Cloudy and humid, with possible showers later and highs in the mid 80s. It's Tuesday in New York City, where the MTA planned to use revenue from congestion pricing to install new elevators in more than 20 subway stations — including one in Midtown where a mother collapsed and died [while carrying a one-year-old in a stroller down three flights of stairs]( back in 2019. Here's how Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to halt the tolling program [put these and other accessibility upgrades in jeopardy](. And here's what else is happening: - City officials said Monday that e-bike battery charging cabinets [will appear in front of businesses and residential buildings]( by next year as part of an effort to prevent e-bike fires inside homes. - Migrants who've been sleeping at a park in Clinton Hill said they’re shaken and frightened to return after [a man was shot and killed there]( in one of two deadly shootings just blocks apart on Sunday night. - State Sen. John Liu of Queens is pushing back against the MTA's plan to [redesign the borough's bus route]( arguing that the proposed changes would increase wait times and cut needed stops. - Arva Rice, the interim chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, [announced her resignation yesterday]( after she criticized the NYPD and pressed for more power for the watchdog agency. - A New York City charity that donated $25 million to CUNY a decade ago [wants its money back]( claiming in a new lawsuit that the school reneged on an agreement to use the cash to build a new community college facility named after the donor. - In the end, New York City managed to get $1 billion in infrastructure funding — with $2.6 billion more possibly on the way — from [one-term President Joe Biden's signature infrastructure bill](. - "TAO attracts THE WORST entitled clientele on the planet this is a huge L for the neighborhood": Residents of the Greenpoint waterfront, which is already saturated with nightclubs, [really don't want Tao to open a location]( on Franklin Street. - In other high-end club news, the Frog Club in the West Village could be closing because the exclusive "reservations-by-email-request-only" tavern [hasn't been filling up](. - New Jersey Republican Party Chair Bob Hugin is [urging GOP senators not to vote to expel convicted Sen. Bob Menendez]( because he doesn't want Gov. Phil Murphy to appoint a new Democratic senator — who'd then get to run as an incumbent in November. - New York Blood Center is rolling out fancy new climate-controlled pods — complete with beds and Netflix — [to entice more people to donate blood](. - A disciplinary panel is recommending that an Oneida County judge who [threatened to shoot Black teenagers who crashed a graduation party]( should be removed from her post. - Bad news for Olympians: There [won't be chicken nuggets]( at the cafeteria. - Good news for Olympians: Their cardboard beds appear to be [strong enough to support two people](. [“You don’t keep propane and gasoline in your bedroom, and you shouldn’t keep an e-bike in your bedroom either.”]( - fDNY COmmissioner Laura Kavanagh on the push to [INSTALL E-BIKE CHARGING CABINETS OUTSIDE BUILDINGS]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [This summer camp offers refuge for NYC's record-high youth homeless population]( Camp Homeward Bound, now in its 40th year, will welcome about 360 children who are living in shelters or were formerly homeless to its annual summer camp about 45 miles north of the city. [New efforts are underway to help you (re)discover the NYC's Black history]( New York City’s role in Black history takes new focus as the City Council weighs erecting a sign at the site of the city’s first slave market. [We Rely On Your Support]( [An NYC tail: There’s a mouse in my couch]( Gothamist's dogged coverage of New York City's rodent problem hit a little close to home for one of the newsroom's reporters. [Return of the King: NYC's once-quelled Papaya Wars rage anew]( Papaya King, the Upper East Side institution that specializes in hot dogs and tropical drinks, reopened this month, reigniting a decades-long battle with its arch rival to the west: Gray’s Papaya. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.