Why NYC's water pipes may continue to burst

Also, NYPD searches for subway shover. [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( ['Playing with fire': Times Square flooding highlights NYC's archaic water supply pipes]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by Emily Nadal]( Weather: ☁️ ☀️ We're starting off gloomy today, but if predictions are right, the sun is on its way to us. Expect a high of 84 degrees and low of 72. Welcome to Wednesday in New York City where our centuries-old water pipes are bound to cause more chaos. The streets and subways around Times Square were flooded yesterday after a 127-year-old pipe burst, and experts say incidents like that [will happen more often]( unless the city takes action to replace the archaic system. Here's more news to know: - Police are searching for a man who randomly pushed a woman [onto the subway tracks]( of the Chambers Street station last night, injuring her leg. - A City Council committee voted to extend Madison Square Garden's permit for five years as opposed to ten. Councilmember Erik Bottcher, who represents the West Side neighborhoods around MSG, pushed for that shorter extension. He [spoke about the vote with WNYC’s Sean Carlson]( on "All Things Considered" yesterday. - After creating a partnership last year, Uber has now actually [started dispatching yellow taxis]( to customers requesting rides. - Labor Day weekend in New York City is approaching, which also means it’s time for the West Indian Day Parade. [Here’s what you need to know.]( - There may be hundreds of bridges in NYC, but [these five are particularly impressive]( (I bet you can guess what the first is). - Here’s [another ranking]( for you: BBC rated the city’s seven best dive bars and I’m feeling a bit nauseated just reading about them. - New York City is now allowing mosques to [broadcast the Muslim call to prayer]( without a permit every Friday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and every evening during the holy month of Ramadan. - Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is calling for the borough to [secede from NYC]( over the way Mayor Eric Adams is handling the migrant crisis following protests against a migrant shelter opening at a former Catholic school on the island. - Doris Ervin just wanted help for her nephew who was experiencing a mental health crisis. Instead, Jersey City police officers shot him to death, and now Ervin [says she regrets calling for help.]( - While the rest of us are busy chasing and stomping out lanternflies, one man is up against 47 kinds of mosquitoes as he [attempts to prevent a summertime West Nile Virus outbreak]( in the city. - Home health aides are planning to rally outside the state Department of Labor headquarters in Lower Manhattan today to [protest the agency’s decision to stop investigating their complaints of wage theft.]( - A [new tracker]( from Documented allows you to see other businesses around the state that are accused of wage theft. - Eminem is protecting us all from having to hear presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy rap again with a [cease-and-desist letter sent to Ramaswamy]( after his performance of “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair. “The infrastructure below ground is some of the most unsexy and easy to forget about infrastructure. You definitely don’t forget about it on days like yesterday.” - Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, a local think tank, [DISCUSSING THE TIMES SQUARE WATER PIPR BURST.]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Man shot at party by off-duty Mount Vernon police officer intends to sue]( A Mount Vernon man has filed a legal notice that he intends to sue the local police department and an off-duty officer who he says shot him while at a party on Sunday night. [Family, neighbors seek answers after Upper West Side super kills family in suspected murder-suicide]( Edison Lopez’s father said he saw no signs of distress from his son in the lead-up to the horrific incident. [We Rely On Your Support]( [What do you do when your rap career dries up? Start drumming.]( Jay Mumford was closing in on 40 when he reached the last in a long line of final straws with hip-hop. [NY native leads latest NASA trip to International Space Station]( A native New Yorker and NASA astronaut was among the SpaceX crew members who docked at the International Space Station on Sunday. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.