Clayton Guse

“E-commerce isn’t going away,” Manhattan borough president Mark Levine said Tuesday. “We’ve got to find ways to manage what is increasingly burdening our neighborhoods and presenting environmental and safety challenges.”

The city Department of Transportation's plans include a new bus lane and a protected bike line between E. 59th St. and E. 96th St. The plans are a first step in an overhaul of the avenue between the East Village and East Harlem.

Round signs — the city calls them “medallions” — depicting the seals of 35 nations of the Western Hemisphere have disappeared from the avenue’s lamp posts over the last six decades. Only 18 of them remain today.

A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to send LIRR trains to Grand Central grew in both costs and construction delays, federal documents show.

“The conclusion from the report is clear: Our future is more car-free,” Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said during a news conference. “Cars don’t shop or dine out. People do.”

Staten Island natives Davidson and Jost joined an investor group that bought the 310-foot ferry — the M.V. John F. Kennedy — from the city for $280,000 earlier this year with the idea of turning it into a bar, restaurant and entertainment venue.

NEW YORK — Asbestos and cockroaches could sink the plans of "Saturday Night Live" comedians Pete Davidson and Colin Jost to open a nightspot aboard a retired Staten Island Ferry

NEW YORK — Asbestos and cockroaches could sink the plans of "Saturday Night Live" comedians Pete Davidson and Colin Jost to open a nightspot aboard a retired Staten Island Ferry

By Stephen Nessen and Clayton Guse Published Feb 9, 2024 at 4:54 p.m. ET

The open gangway subway trains are an exciting sight on the C line — if you can get on one.