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TRANSIT: E Trains (Closed from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily), Roosevelt Island Tram (Closes for cleaning daily from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., Passenger Limit: 35), NYC Ferry and Q102 operating on weekend schedules.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: While the Tram elevator is out of service, RIOC provides free, limited shuttle bus services between Tram plazas. Read the details here.

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Free Meal Distribution At PS/IS 217

  • Free "Grab and Go" meals are available for all New Yorkers.
  • Monday through Friday, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
  • Meals Hubs will operate for children and families from 7:30 am to 11:30 am, and for adults from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
  • No one will be turned away at any time.
  • No registration, ID, or documentation required.
  • All three meals a day may be picked up at the same time.
  • No dining space is available, so meals must be eaten off premises.
  • Parents and guardians may pick up meals for their children‎.
(Source: New York City Board of Education)

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At 3:30, a long line snaked away from the Tram.

F Train Shutdown, Roosevelt Island's Vulnerability and RIOC's Years Long Failure To Plan

12/24/2020 - 10:33 Updated 3 weeks ago

When signal problems brought F Trains through the 63rd Street tunnel serving Roosevelt Island to a halt, just before 3:00 p.m., yesterday, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp. (RIOC) acted quickly. They sent out an advisory letting subscribers know about the shutdown, and then...

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“Where They Countin’ the Votes?!”: New Video Details Tense Moments as Capitol Mob Sought Out Lawmakers

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story originally appeared in ProPublica. by Jack Gillum, video by Lucas Waldron and Maya Eliahou More than 10 million people have seen the video shot by HuffPost reporter […]

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Vaccination Disarray Leaves Seniors Confused About When They Can Get a Shot

Judith Graham   January 14, 2021 Use Our Content It can be republished for free. For weeks, doctors’ phones have been ringing off the hook with anxious older patients on the other end of the line. “When can I get a covid-19 vaccine?” these patients want to know. […]

The post Vaccination Disarray Leaves Seniors Confused About When They Can Get a Shot appeared first on Assorted Ideas, Large & Small.

‘Turn in your pin and get out’: Several congresswomen denounce their colleagues’ role in the Capitol riot

After a mob stormed the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to overturn the presidential election results, lawmakers called for accountability. Mariel Padilla Originally published by The 19th We’re the only newsroom dedicated to writing about gender, politics and policy. Subscribe to our newsletter today. Several Democratic women […]

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“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story originally appeared in ProPublica. by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, […]

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Feeling Left Out: Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for Vaccine

Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News   January 13, 2021 Dr. Andrew Carroll — a family doctor in Chandler, Arizona — wants to help his patients get immunized against covid, so he paid more than $4,000 to buy an ultra-low-temperature freezer from eBay needed to store the Pfizer vaccine. […]

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