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vrijdag 26 september 2025

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Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025
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Dear New Yorkers,

A surge of public lewdness arrests inside a Penn Station bathroom by Amtrak Police has rattled the LGBTQ community and landed at least one person in ICE custody, THE CITY has learned.

Arrests by the Amtrak Police, a national police force who are not bound by city sanctuary protections, at a restroom that’s a known cruising spot, shot up during Pride month, NYPD data shows — and they appear to have accelerated since then.

Among those arrested was David, a 31-year-old health care worker who says he was just trying to use the bathroom on his way back from visiting a friend in New Jersey when he felt he was being watched by a man nearby. 

David, who is gay, says he was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband while simply trying to pee when he was arrested foer the first time in hislife and handcuffed to a wall in a cell inside Penn Station, where he heard one officers say to others, “Yeah, we got three more fag pervs.” 

In another case, immigration attorney Danney Salvatierra said her client, a Mexican man with a U.S. citizen spouse who was in removal proceedings but had a pending asylum claim, was arrested while using the bathroom in Penn Station in early July and immediately handed over to ICE, according to a document provided to the man’s attorney that made no mention of any charge filed against him. 

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In Brooklyn, there will be no 4 trains between Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr and Crown Hts-Utica Av/New Lots Av. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.

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It’s in effect today, Sept. 25. 

By the way …

Check your mailbox. Inflation refund checks are set to hit mailboxes as soon as the end of September

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Reporter’s Notebook

Dylan Lopez Contreras, the 20-year-old high schooler who has been in ICE custody since May after getting arrested at a routine immigration court hearing, was denied his asylum claim after a hearing in immigration court, his attorneys told Chalkbeat on Wednesday

The young man’s attorneys say they plan to appeal the immigration judge’s decision while he remains detained inside the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in rural Pennsylvania. 

Lopez was arrested at an immigration courthouse in May, one of the first immigrants caught up in an ongoing wave of arrests there. While a number of New York City high school students arrested at such court appearances have since been released, Lopez has remained in ICE detention.

—Gwynne Hogan

Things To Do

Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.

THE KICKER: Good news for leaf peepers. Gov. Hochul has announced that Metro North will make ‘super-express’ under 90-minute trips between Poughkeepsie and New York City, starting Oct. 6. 

Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Thursday.

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