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Extra Extra: Trump administration won't fund High Line for Queens
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Published Jul 30, 2025
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where bus and subway fares are going up by 10 cents next year.
Here's what else is happening:
- NYC's chief medical examiner's office says it will be examining the brain of Midtown office shooter Shane Tamura, who wrote in his suicide note that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy from playing football and wanted his head studied.
- Dozens of people rallied outside MTA headquarters this morning to protest the return of alcohol ads in the subway system.
- Wealthy real estate and finance figures are scrambling to raise money for Super PACs that'll attack Zohran Mamdani — and support a yet-to-be-chosen alternative.
- One of George Soros' sons is constructing a double-wide townhouse in the West Village that's right next to Left Bank Books and browsers are annoyed.
- The Trump administration is revoking $112 million in funding for the QueensWay, AKA the High Line for Queens.
- That means the QueensLink, a proposed train over an abandoned rail line running through the same area as the would-be QueensWay, is not dead.
- Some guys are afraid to talk about their hair transplants.
- Other guys are "black cat boyfriends."
- And finally, it's potable:
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