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Train Daddy Andy Byford Says Goodbye To MTA
NYC Transit President Andy Byford has resigned, MTA officials announced Thursday.

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NYC Transit President Andy Byford has resigned, MTA officials announced Thursday.

The MTA is considering opening a new subway line to connect Bay Ridge to Midwood, East New York, Bushwick and Astoria, officials said.
Shoprite's parent company could buy up to five Fairway Markets, including the flagship, for $70 million, court records show.
A 31-year-old man who had just been shot jumped in a black SUV, tried to speed away and crashed on a Hell's Kitchen corner, cops said.
The NYPD has released body cam footage from a police-involved shooting in The Bronx in October 2019.
An anti-abortion group is fighting New York laws preventing them from discriminating against workers who use birth control.
Fairway Market on Wednesday denied a report that bankruptcy will force the grocery chain to close its 14 stores.
Transit cops say Mayor de Blasio's subway homeless outreach program lands people in handcuffs for sitting on subway steps.
Rising concerns over D.A. Cyrus Vance's handling of high profile sex abuse cases spurred Jumaane Williams to demand his resignation.
Police are investigating the Adelphi Street fire as a homicide, the NYPD announced Tuesday morning.
Shirr Teved, 11, died when a fire broke out in her Kensington home Monday night, police said.
New York City is among the nation's top 10 hotspots for bedbugs, a new study shows.
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The Brooklyn-born artist was arrested Friday for taking a Rolls-Royce that wasn't his on a cross-country road trip, court records show.
A Scooter-slinging attacker critically injured a woman in Downtown Brooklyn Saturday night, police said.
New York is under a winter weather advisory for Saturday when some areas could get up to 4 inches of snow, forecasters said.
The woman was dragged several feet down 86th Street in Bensonhurst until the driver sped away, police said.
A 67-year-old woman died after she was hit by flying plywood on Main Street in Flushing Thursday morning, according to police.