Following an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease this summer that affected West Harlem residents, the New York City Council met on Friday to discuss preventative legislation against further outbreaks.

District 7 City Council member Shaun Abreu, CC ’14, introduced a bill to City Council on Feb. 27 to create an office within the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development dedicated to the management of aging Housing Development Fund Corporations.

Following approval of the MTA’s 2025-29 Capital Plan in September, community leaders and representatives from Columbia and the MTA attended the most recent Elevator Lobby meeting where Columbia officials confirmed that there are no Columbia-MTA joint construction projects to bring an elevator to the 125th Street and Broadway subway station.

Ten years into the implementation of Vision Zero, Manhattan is seeing the deadliest year for traffic-related fatalities on record since 2017—and two years since the announcement of a plan to create more protected bike lanes, West Harlem still doesn’t have any.

State Sen. Cordell Cleare, chair of the committee on aging, wrote a letter in August calling on MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber to include plans for implementing an elevator at the 125th Street and Broadway subway station in the MTA’s 2025-2029 Capital Plan. The MTA released its proposed plan on Wednesday, with no mention of the train station.

WE ACT for Environmental Justice celebrated Dominican Heritage and Black History Month at its monthly general meeting on Saturday. The meeting included awards, speeches from leaders of the community, and a presentation on the New York State Beauty Justice bill.

The MTA launched its fare-free bus program in New York City on Sunday. West Harlem is home to the first pilot route introduced in Manhattan—the M116.

Two MTA buses were struck by gunfire on West 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue Wednesday afternoon.