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The MTA’s signature plan to revamp bus routes has been stuck in the slow lane for over a year because of the pandemic delaying long-planned efforts to speed up rides as the city begins reopening.
Agency officials say the citywide bus network redesign which launched on Staten Island Express routes in 2018 will eventually resume, though the MTA could not specify an exact timetable.
While Staten Island’s overhaul was completed nearly three years ago, The Bronx’s redesign was just about to hit the streets when COVID slammed the brakes. The MTA had started public outreach on its Queens plan, while Brooklyn’s redesign was in a preliminary phase. Manhattan will be the last borough to have its bus routes reimagined.
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Older Asians Face ‘A Whole Wave’ of Hate Hidden in Official NYPD Stats
Even as the NYPD investigated few anti-Asian bias incidents as hate crimes, its records show a vast number of cases closed without action with the greatest increase involving older Asian New Yorkers. Ariel Goodman and Michelle Pitcher contributed reporting.
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The security videos of the March incident stunned New Yorkers and resonated far beyond. They showed an older Asian woman, shoved to the ground, then kicked in the body and stomped in the head by an assailant.