New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tackling yet another urban annoyance: the city’s lack of public restrooms. As of June 2025, New York City had just 975 operating public restrooms across its five boroughs, or
For most New York City subway riders, especially in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, underground newsstands are often nothing more than a relic of history turned into prime real estate for graffiti and branded
The last of New York City Transit’s MetroCard machines are being auctioned off to the highest bidders. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stopped selling and refilling MetroCards at the end 2025 and retired its vending machines
