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dinsdag 17 maart 2026
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Dear New Yorkers,
The winter snow melted to reveal a hellish landscape no pedestrian wants to face.
Piles of dog poop littered the city — and just getting to your corner store felt like a game of Frogger.
NYC’s Department of Sanitation wants you to know that they have heard your complaints, but there’s not much they can do about it, according to a budget hearing Monday.
That’s because enforcement officials need to catch a scofflaw puppy parent in the act of leaving a pile behind — and their very presence deters such antisocial behavior.
In Brooklyn, no Manhattan-bound Q trains between Avenue M and Parkside Avenue from 9:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
The largest union for New York City transit workers has launched its latest legal challenge to keep the MTA from shuttering booths in subway stations. The lawsuit marks the latest flare-up between the union and the MTA over reduced staffing in what many New Yorkers still understand as “token booths,” and it comes in the run-up to the two sides entering contract negotiations later this year.
A federal agency seeking to treat emergency responders who fell ill after 9/11 is contending with staffing shortages and delays that could have “devastating medical consequences.” That’s according to a group of NY and NJ members of Congress who sent a March 6 letter requesting a congressional hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested last year by the Trump administration as it targeted pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University, has been released after more than a year in detention.
Kordia, who was born in the West Bank and immigrated to New Jersey in 2016, joined protesters outside Columbia’s campus in April 2024. She was arrested by the NYPD, along with dozens of others in the roadway.
While the charges against her were swiftly dropped, an NYPD officer later shared her sealed arrest record with a federal investigator in New Jersey who claimed to be investigating her for money laundering, as THE CITY previously reported.
Kordia, who was not a Columbia student, remained in custody due to her participation in the protests because she’d overstayed her student visa. On Friday, a immigration judge ordered her release on a $100,000 bond.
She was the last person remaining in immigration detention from the Trump administration’s pursuit of pro-Palestinian activists on college campuses. Her case was one of several that Mayor Zohran Mamdani brought up with President Trump during their meeting last month.
In Kordia’s year in detention, she lost 49 pounds and was denied halal food, her attorneys said. She recently suffered a seizure and was chained to her hospital bed before being sent back to detention.
— Gwynne Hogan
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Tuesday, March 17: Bassist and musical director Allison Lee examines the obstacles Trombonist Melba Liston faced and the lasting musical legacy she created, with a jazz concert after. Free, at 7:00 p.m. RSVP here.
Tuesday, March 17: Distiller Maura Clare speaks about the history of the Irish drink Poitín on St. Patrick’s Day at the National Arts Club. Free, at 8:00 p.m. Register here.
Wednesday, March 18: Experts explore the economy of philanthropy and patronage in American culture, and how they shape the performing arts and cultural institutions at Lincoln Center. Free, at 7:00 p.m.
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