{"id":302710,"date":"2026-07-22T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:17:17","slug":"morning-briefing-july-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302710\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing: July 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, New York City. Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

A warm and humid day is ahead with highs in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n

An incoming cold front could trigger one or two storms mid-afternoon through early this evening, but a lot of dry time is expected.<\/p>\n

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Highs:\u00a0Mid-80s
Lows:\u00a0Mid-60s
Isolated PM storm chance<\/p>\n

Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around NYC<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0City announces redesign of bus lanes on Fordham Road<\/a><\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city\u2019s Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the redesign of bus lanes on Fordham Road in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

The project will add new offset bus lanes from Sedgwick Avenue and Boston Road in an effort to make the commute faster and more reliable for 130,000 daily bus riders, the news release said.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Federal Plaza arson suspect faces 40 years in prison, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors say the attack outside 26 Federal Plaza on Monday was not spontaneous but planned for months.<\/p>\n

Andrew Arrabaca, a 43-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Poughkeepsie, is now being held without bail on a federal arson charge, officials said.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Mamdani\u2019s commission publishes proposals on bike and bus lanes, contracts, savings<\/a><\/p>\n

After weeks of public hearings, Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Commission on Government Efficiency \u2014 also known as COGE \u2014 has come up with five potential ballot proposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The five questions range from cutting down the approval process for outdoor dining to speeding up city contracting to fast-tracking bus and bike lanes to establishing a process for putting money into the city\u2019s rainy day fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0U.S. military identifies 3rd service member believed to have been killed in Iranian attack<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Hegseth estimates Iran war has cost $37.5B so far<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a06,600 noncitizens registered to vote after error in New Jersey motor vehicle system, governor says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, New York City. Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner A warm and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[577,25,55625,9,24,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-302710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-morning-briefing","tag-app-top-stories","tag-erin-pflaumer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}