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Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0City to close final emergency hotel shelter used to house migrants<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n New York City will end operations at the last hotel in its emergency shelter system for migrants, Mayor Eric Adams said today.<\/p>\n The Row NYC, a 1,300-room hotel in Times Square that\u00a0began housing newly arrived migrants\u00a0in 2022, will cease operating as a shelter next April, according to City Hall.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0NYPD’s new quality-of-life teams roll out in Queens<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n For the past few weeks, there\u2019s been a rollout of the NYPD\u2019s new quality-of-life teams in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and on Monday, the teams, also known as \u201cQ-Teams,\u201d rolled out in Queens.<\/p>\n The city says the Q-Teams have already helped improve non-emergency call response times by 47 minutes, on average.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Public school students make big gains in math, reading test results<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Public school students made big gains in math and reading last year, according to their results on statewide standardized tests.<\/p>\n The tests are given to students in grades three through eight, and the gains come as the city has launched new reading and math curriculum programs across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Astoria businesses sue to block protected bike lane plan<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n More than a dozen business owners in Astoria have filed a lawsuit looking to block a planned protected bike lane on 31st Street.<\/p>\n The petition, filed Friday in Queens Supreme Court, said the city\u2019s proposal to redesign the street \u2014 from 36th Avenue to Newton Avenue \u2014 would hurt their day-to-day operations and jeopardize public safety.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0Judge denies request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case won’t be released, a judge decided today.<\/p>\n Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that the government had suggested that the materials could be released publicly “casually or promiscuously,” which would risk “unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised” and eroding confidence by persons called to testify before future grand juries.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0Central Park station renamed in honor of Malcolm X<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n The 110th Street\u2013Central Park North subway station now bears a new name: 110th Street\u2013Malcolm X Plaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the renaming into law Sunday during the city\u2019s 51st\u00a0Harlem Week celebrations.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spectrum_News_Plus_PromoCard_4-11-2023.jpeg\")
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