Endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle returned to the Atlantic Ocean
An endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle returned to the Atlantic Ocean outside the New York Aquarium July 24. The turtle, named Pancake, returned to the waters after months of rehabilitation at the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society’s sea turtle care facility in Westhampton Beach. “Every Kemp’s ridley returned to the ocean is a victory for one of the world’s most endangered sea turtle species,” said John Calvelli, executive vice president of public affairs for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Photo: Atlantic Marine Conservation Society
Happy Friday in New York City, where G train riders won’t be the only ones struggling this summer.
The MTA announced a few days ago that major service changes are coming to the 1, 2 and 3 lines on weekends and weeknights for the next five weeks, affecting routes used by more than a million riders each day. The changes go into effect today and will last through Aug. 21. Click here for a full breakdown of the disruptions.
Crews will spend the month replacing tracks north of Chambers Street and catching up on important maintenance, inspections and mechanical and electrical work.
“ We know people have places to go. But in relative terms, it’s when there’s a little bit of a dip in terms of ridership, so they’re getting the work done,” Jamie Torres-Springer, MTA President of Construction and Development, told Gothamist. “ This is a 24/7 system, but it’s a 100-year-old system. We got to do work to keep it running.”
The MTA does have some good news for us this morning. On Wednesday, the transit agency finished its $106 million restoration of the Borough Hall station in downtown Brooklyn. The 5-year project included fixing the unstable ceiling after a piece of crumbling rubble killed a woman in 2018, as well as installing accessibility upgrades, flood-prevention interventions and cosmetic improvements.
“ It's been left to deteriorate over 118 years, frankly, so it was in terrible shape,” Torres-Springer said at a ribbon cutting event.
It is a perfect encapsulation of the maddening give-and-take of our century-old transit system that the brand new Borough Hall Station primarily serves 1, 2 and 3 trains.
The city’s Bureau of Coastal Resilience will dramatically expand from six to 75 staff members, thanks to a $43.2M commitment from the city’s coffers.
A Canadian real estate investment trust announced its $89.9M acquisition of the East New York Health Hub, a seven-story medical outpatient facility at 101 Pennsylvania Ave.
Brooklyn Roasting Works LLC has issued a food safety recall for its product “Brooklyn Roasting Company Pasteurized Cold Brew Concentrate,” packaged as a 2.5 gallon bag-in-box, with best-by codes 063026 through 093026.
Authorities are looking for a man suspected of burglarizing 11 businesses across six police precincts in neighborhoods including Carroll Gardens, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Bushwick and North W’burg over the past three months.
A Boerum Hill woman riding an electric stand-up scooter along Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights collided with a dump truck and suffered fatal injuries.
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INDIA — The power of education — even with nature’s revenge, more floods in India, affection for books prevails: A flood-affected girl dries her school books on a road in Teok village in upper Assam, Friday, July 24, 2026.
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More than half of Earth’s migratory bird species are declining. Here’s how we can still save them
An eastern bluebird eats an insect on a rainy day, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in Freeport, Maine. Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP
Every year, billions of migratory birds connect the world’s continents, oceans and ecosystems as they undertake epic journeys between their foraging habitats and their breeding grounds.
A bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) leaves its breeding grasslands of North America for the Pampas of South America. A Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) spends months soaring across the North Pacific before returning to the Hawaiian Islands to breed. A spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) travels from Arctic Russia to the rapidly disappearing tidal mudflats of Southeast Asia for its nonbreeding season.
These birds could hardly be more different. They occupy different habitats, follow different migratory routes and face different threats. Yet they share one remarkable characteristic: Their survival depends on networks of habitats stretching across thousands of miles and multiple countries.
Today, all three species and many others are in trouble.
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Happy Birthday “A Different World” star Kadeem Hardison, who was born in Brooklyn!
On this day in 1948, the Eagle reported, “Loew’s and R.K.O. motion picture theaters in Brooklyn today were without air conditioning as a result of a strike of cooling system engineers — but the real test of effectiveness of the walkout was yet to come. Owners of 80 theaters in the city affected by the stoppage got a break from the weather yesterday with lower temperatures, and today was scheduled to be less humid with a high only in the upper 70s. The test will come, no doubt, when temperatures zoom to the upper 80s.”
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