The fire broke out sometime before 5 a.m. in Queens.
Video from the Citizen app showed the flames on the track beneath Hunters Point Avenue.
Some southbound 7 trains were stopped at Woodside-61 St or Queensboro Plaza and turned back for Main St-bound service as FDNY members worked to extinguish the flames.
Service was restored by 6 a.m. Commuters were advised to expect residual delays.
No injuries were reported.
Feb 4, 2021
ESCANABA The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is urging anglers to use extra caution when braving the ice on Lake Michigan in Delta County.
“The ice conditions are reported as quite variable in and around Little Bay de Noc, especially at river mouths,” said John Pepin, DNR deputy public information officer. “Several anglers have fallen through the ice recently, either while walking or operating snowmobiles or all-terrain vehicles. We want anyone venturing onto the ice to take safety precautions and be doubly careful.”
Good ice at the head of Little Bay de Noc may create a false impression of safe ice conditions elsewhere. In some places, the ice is a foot thick, while measuring less than an inch only 100 yards away.
1,323 8 minutes read Chicago. Liberation photo.
From Tampa Bay, Florida, to Portland, Oregon, from Los Angeles to Boston, people took to the streets Jan.30-Feb 1. They organized car caravans, speakouts and dropped banners demanding that the government immediately cancel the rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions.
Actions took place in 30 cities as national and local eviction moratoriums have only paused millions of evictions, and a third of the population can’t pay their bills and are unable to catch up with the rent. An eviction crisis looms that will hit oppressed communities, already especially affected by the pandemic, the hardest. Meanwhile, big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratoriums.
How SF s new poet laureate taught me to be a better person
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Tongo Eisen-Martin was chosen as San Francisco s eighth poet laureate in January 2021.Courtesy of Tongo Eisen-Martin
At my first class with San Francisco’s new poet laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, he mistook me for the teacher. I was standing at the front of class chatting with a friend, wearing my first-day-of-a-new-semester best, and, to be fair, a lot of teachers do wear cardigans.
But there’s no mistaking Eisen-Martin for an educator, even when he does slouch into a classroom, joking with his students and throwing the class into an uproar of laughter. He has an energy that commands attention. His readings hush a crowded room as he pulls everyone into the world of his poetry, and his students often leave class buzzing with excitement.
The amazing parallels between Flint, Mich., and Bayview Hunters Point
January 31, 2021
by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD, Health and Environmental Science Editor
“Nothing’s changed because the water’s been making my skin itchy. You can’t drink it, too.” – Amariyanna Copeny, known as Little Miss Flint, in a 2016 letter to President Barack Obama
Flint, Mich., is the birthplace of General Motors and the Flint Strike of 1936 that led to the formation of the United Auto Workers. The city has over 100,000 residents and is described as “one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in the United States.” The average household income is $39,575 and 41.2 percent of the population lives below poverty levels. African Americans comprise 54.08 percent of residents.