As a taxi lender seizes medallions, cabbies are caught in the carnage | Crain’s New York Business

Cab drivers and owners get caught in the headlights of a troubled taxi lender As Melrose Credit Union looks to seize assets instead of refinancing medallion loans, individual owners fear for their future Photo: Buck Ennis THE ROAD AHEAD Drivers such as Medina are 
weighing whether to stay 
 in the business. inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20170709/SMALLBIZ/170709944&template=rwd& morning10:…

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LIRR Train Derails in Brooklyn; 103 People Hurt | NBC New York

Shattered glass, smoke and passengers in shock. Footage from directly after the train derailment this morning. (Published 56 minutes ago) endclickprintinclude startclickprintinclude What to Know A Long Island Rail Road train derailed at track 6 at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal at the height of Wednesday’s morning rush 103 people were hurt, though fire officials said their…

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Chick-fil-A Boycott Planned for New Queens Location, Officials Say – Elmhurst – DNAinfo New York

    The company is anti-LGBT, Councilman Danny Dromm said. View Full Caption Flickr/scuddr ELMHURST — National chain Chick-fil-A plans to open its first location in the borough at the Queens Center Mall — but not everyone’s excited to eat more chicken. The company’s first Queens restaurant is set to open this fall, an effort to serve…

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Queens is the best part of New York and probably the world

It’s lit Last year, the Lonely Planet crowned Queens the top travel destination in the US. And yeah, sure, we were closely followed by Western South Dakota, but we reveled in the victory. Queens isn’t your typical front-runner like Manhattan. We’ve always been the silent hero type. A silent hero who houses the New York Mets, the US Open, the iconic unisphere in…

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7 Train Service Will Shut Down for 8 Weekends in 2016, MTA Says – Long Island City – DNAinfo.com New York

    The 7 train in Queens. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly LONG ISLAND CITY — This year’s resolution: take the bus more. The MTA is planning another round of 7 train service disruptions in 2016, with no trains running between Long Island City and Manhattan for eight weekends next year, according to the agency….

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