New York's off-year vote came back. Last year's mayoral race drew 39 ballots per hundred adult citizens, nearly double 2021's and the most for a mayor since 1993. But look at the governor's line: up in 2018, back down in 2022. The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊

For fifty years New York's unemployment rate has run above the nation's, in 87% of months since 1976. September's gap, six tenths of a point, is the narrowest since February 2025. The city and the nation, year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky

The City Reporter’s analysis of MTA elevator-availability data for a transit hub that served more than 6.1 million riders last year found that the lifts slid from being in service 99% of the time in April to 56% in August.

New Subway Elevators at Yankee Stadium Slump With Outages For Months

One of the lifts will be out of service until the new year, the MTA says.

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In New York's midterms, most adult citizens under 30 don't report voting: 28% said they did in the last four, against 47% of people 65 and over. With a president on the ballot, nearly half of the under-30s do. By age: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊

Just months after the MTA installed five new elevators at the station, several were sidelined during baseball season, transit authority data shows — and one lift is expected to remain out of service until winter 2027 because of power problems.

New Subway Elevators at Yankee Stadium Slump With Outages For Months

One of the lifts will be out of service until the new year, the MTA says.

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Fare evasion changes the answer. On paid rides alone, subway grand larceny looks level with 2019 and robbery higher. Count every entry, paid or not, and grand larceny is 13% lower, perhaps by chance, and robbery about the same. How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #statsky

CUNY CARES focuses on helping Bronx students meet four essential needs in an era of skyrocketing rents and new SNAP and Medicaid restrictions: food, health care, housing and mental health.

CUNY Expands One-Stop Shop for Help With Housing, Food Aid and Health Care

More than 1,000 college students in The Bronx regained their SNAP benefits through the CUNY CARES program last year, the university said.

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Call 911 in the Bronx with a life-threatening emergency and the average wait for an ambulance is 12:16, the city's slowest. Every borough's ambulances got slower in fiscal 2026; Queens and the Bronx the most. By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊

You'd expect a minimum wage that nearly doubled after inflation to lift the middle. In New York it didn't: the median worker earns about what the median worker earned in 1989. The floor, the middle and the $30 bill's line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky

NYC’s subsidized childcare waitlist is moving, starting with 3K families gothamist.com/news/nycs-su...

NYC’s subsidized childcare waitlist is moving, starting with 3K families

The city notified 3,000 families on the waitlist that they were eligible for a voucher.

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New York's unemployment runs above the nation's, and most of the extra is spells of six months or more. Short spells are about as common here as anywhere; six-month spells are twice as common, 2.2 in every 100 workers against 1.1. By length of spell: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky

The project at 100 Gold is expected to bring about 8,080 residents to the neighborhood, increasing the Financial District’s population by about 10%. That could just be the beginning of a population boom.

The Densest Apartment Building in the US Could Be Coming to FiDi

The proposed development at 100 Gold Street could hold 4,000 units across two towers, one of which would rival the Empire State Building in height.

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Pedal-bike deaths in New York fell from 28 in 2019 to 7 in 2025. Before anyone claims a win: e-bikes got their own police label only in August 2019, so some riders may be filed elsewhere. Bicycles and e-devices together: still up. How we checked: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #statsky

NEW: The quest for an affordable home and a little peace and quiet has taken thousands of New Yorkers to eastern Pennsylvania, even as they keep their jobs in the Big Apple. Welcome to the three-state commute.

Welcome to Hotel RAV4: The Brutal Commute of New Yorkers Priced Out to the Poconos

The quest for an affordable home and a little peace and quiet has taken thousands of New Yorkers to eastern Pennsylvania, even as they keep their jobs in the Big Apple. Welcome to the three-state…

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In New York the hour-long commute is a transit commute. More than a third of subway and bus riders are over the hour each way; among drivers it is fewer than one in five. By mode: sparkydata.dev/articles/hour-pl… 📊 #transitsky

New York's murders are a seventh of what they were in 1990. The record low isn't last year, though: 2017 had fewer, and the rise of 2020 and 2021 has largely fallen away. The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/fewer-s… 📊

Half of New York's wage-earners make under $30 an hour. They did in 1989 too. After inflation, the minimum wage has nearly doubled since then; the typical worker's pay ended near where it began. Thirty-five years in one line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky

Did a wider law double the subway's felony assaults? In January to August 2022, before any of the State's widenings, felony assault per ride was already 2.5 times the same months of 2019. Retail and more transit workers were added after. Year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #transitsky

The Bronx complains of no heat at nearly twice the city's rate, and its rate has risen the most. Last winter: 267 complaints per 1,000 renter households outside public housing, the most of any borough. By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/not-jus… 📊

Counting fare evaders as riders, felony assaults per subway ride in January to May were 2.1 times their 2019 rate. Robbery was about the same, and the six major felonies together were up. January to May, side by side: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #transitsky

The one line on New York's road-death chart that never came down. For twenty-five years deaths on two wheels held near 51 a year while the lines above them fell. In 2020 they stepped up, and they haven't been below 59 since. sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #transitsky

Half of New York's felony assaults are reported in homes, not on the street. And the rise since 2019 is as steep indoors as out: up 39% in homes, about the same on the street. By place: sparkydata.dev/articles/fewer-s… 📊

New York City and State cut the ribbon Thursday on phase one of a 2,000 unit, 100 percent affordable housing development on a church parking lot in Brooklyn. Could church-owned housing projects see a resurrection in New York? @patrickspauster.com reports: citylimits.org/more-apartme...

More Apartments on Church Land? And What Else Happened This Week in Housing - City Limits

Officials cut the ribbon Thursday on phase one of a 2,000 unit, 100 percent affordable housing development on a church parking lot in Brooklyn.

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NYC ambulance response times have grown 41% as life-threatening calls rise gothamist.com/news/nyc-amb...

NYC ambulance response times have grown 41% as life-threatening calls rise

A city comptroller’s report points to ambulance maintenance problems and low pay for EMTs and paramedics as factors contributing to longer waits.

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Per subway ride, the police record about a third as many major felonies as in 1998, each year under its own law. The exception since 2019 is felony assault, about twice its rate then. The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #transitsky

Thanks to funds from congestion pricing, we've begun construction on accessibility upgrades at the 42 St-Bryant Park/5 Av station complex! New elevators, an accessible passageway between 42 St-Bryant Park (B/D/F/M) and 5 Av station (7), and more will benefit over 100,000 daily riders.

New York's newest road death is on an e-bike. Before 2020 the NYPD's crash records named an e-bike, e-scooter or moped for at most 5 of the people killed in a year. In 2023 they named one for 66. Which vehicles the rise is on: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #transitsky

Look at the green line: the 911 call itself barely changed. The slower ambulance response sits in the two lines that bent upward, the wait from the job's creation to an assignment and the trip from assignment to arrival. How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊

Far fewer people are killed on New York's streets on foot or in cars than thirty years ago. People on two wheels went the other way: from about 47 deaths a year in the late 1990s to 71 in the early 2020s. The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #transitsky

What are some of the challenges facing NYC's Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs? 🍎 IBO's newest report analyzes data from the 2024-2025 school year to identify challenges within the 3-K and Pre-K matching process. Read the full report! buff.ly/1rFgJbl #EarlyChildhoodEducation