Every first day of the month, the Petit Journal offers you a summary of the events that marked the lives of New Yorkers in March.
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Nearly four million people rode New York’s public transit on Thursday, March 16, something that hadn’t happened in 3 years
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1.1 million students are homeless in the United States
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On her way to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden, a woman was identified using a facial recognition camera and denied entry because “her company was involved in a dispute with MSG” (source: NYT )
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$42M in budget cuts proposed by Mayor to NYC public libraries have been refused by institutions
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Many public swimming pools have not reopened since the pandemic. However, 1/3 of students cannot swim
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70% of greenhouse gas emissions come from NYC buildings
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158.4 million people are expected in the air during “spring break”, the Easter holidays
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An incredible solution has been proposed to fight against rats: deposit garbage bags in closed containers and no longer directly in the street. An experiment of this nature has been tried in Brooklyn and it works!
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An exhibition dedicated to failures in the industry at the Museum of Failure in Brooklyn
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People who drink coffee take an average of 1,000 more steps per day than people who don’t, but sleep 36 minutes less (and that’s important because everyone walks a lot and no one sleeps in NYC, it’s well known)
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To compensate for the rise in subway ticket prices, the State of NY is considering a tax on streaming services like Netflix
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Hart Island, east of the Bronx where nearly a million people were buried in years past will become a park open to the public
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Cherry blossoms in Central Park herald an early spring (after a snowless winter)
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14 Pickeball courts – a mix of tennis, ping-pong and badminton – will open this summer in Central Park
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Have you made the resolution to get back to sport with spring? Remedy Place offers to get you back in shape for $2,750 a month
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We’ve been talking about it for years: the $2 billion project for a train linking downtown Manhattan to The Guardian airport has been abandoned. Instead, the state will invest around $500m in improving buses and shuttles
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The average unpaid rent per family occupying public housing in NYC is $6,000, which represents a total of $466M. These debts could be erased in part by the city
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16 children were run over on leaving their school in 2022. A “diagonal” pedestrian crossing project and not only read at right angles has been adopted
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The budget to extend the subway from 2nd Avenue to East Harlem has just received a $500M extension. The project should cost a total of $7.7 billion
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Budget cuts planned for public schools due to declining enrollment
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Between 90,000 and 230,000 migrating birds are killed each year in collisions with city buildings
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Transit workers (MTA) are not allowed to strike in NYC. Unions organize to change the law
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New York high school students will soon receive municipal ID cards that will give them free admission to museums. They will also benefit from discounted ferry rides
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The covered scaffolding of the streets of NYC represents a total of 450 km. The city will require owners to submit work permits from the 6th month
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For 100% of taxis to be electric by 2030, the city plans to build 6,000 chargers within 5 years
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The 10 Carmelite nuns of Cypress Hills, cloistered in Brooklyn for nearly 20 years, have decided to leave New York
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Brooklyn French Bakers wins the Grand Prix for the best croissant in New York organized by our friendly colleagues French Morning 🙂
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Reopening next month of the Montreal-New York train line. 17 stops. 10 hours of travel and breathtaking landscapes
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Has anyone finally tasted “fried chicken” flavored ice cream? You have until the end of the month
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Several unlicensed cannabis stores shut down by the NYPD are starting to illegally sell their products again for up to eight times less than their legal competitors.
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The Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor in the Upper East offered for a few hours and without quantity limits to all those who requested it its new flavor “fried chicken and waffle” – on a background of bourbon maple syrup
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Mayor Adams now recommends New Yorkers take off their masks when entering a store to combat theft
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There are 65,000 food delivery people in NYC who earn $11.12 an hour (including tips and fees). An increase in their remuneration had been under consideration for two years. It will be $19.96 by 2025.
Uber and Lyft drivers will benefit from a 2.25% increase
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Brooklyn’s tallest building – 74 stories and 324 meters high – is up for sale for $660m
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Launched in March 2003, “NYC311 has become an indispensable resource for New Yorkers, when they want to complain about noise, report a dirt problem, find out if alternate parking is in effect” In 20 years, 311 has been called 525 million times
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January Dry: 40% of stores selling alcohol saw a drop in sales
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Online scams cost New Yorkers $358,000 in 2022
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Wider doors and security cameras: these are the new metro trains put into circulation on line A
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Broadway will become pedestrian this summer between 25th and 27th streets
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239 officers left NYPD in first two months, down from 176 last year and just 110 the year before
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New York has 4,000 scaffoldings, 230 of which were installed more than 5 years ago. A new law tries to reduce them
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JetBlue will launch its first daily Paris-New York on June 29 and Norse Atlantic on March 26
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56.4 million tourists in New York last year
