The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has unveiled $1.4 million worth of state-of-the-art bus simulators at Brooklyn’s Spring Creek Depot and the Zerega Training Center in the Bronx, letting New York drivers rehearse the city’s signature brand o…
A poll commissioned by Darializa Avila Chevalier suggests only 42% of likely Democratic voters would stick with five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District, a patch stretching from Upper Manhattan to The Bronx. Once respondents heard a spot of positive spin, the challenger took the lead, though the pollster’s family ties are unknown. With June’s primary looming, we suspect complacency is an endangered species uptown.
A new batch of missives in The New York Times’s Metropolitan Diary finds readers—grudging transplants and lifelong locals alike—musing over city quirks from Bronx banter to subway etiquette. As ever, the anecdotes hint that New York’s daily theatre is as lively as ever, even for the self-professed timid: it seems the city eventually softens most standoffs, if rarely our skepticism.
