Real-estate and rental website RentCafé recently crunched their numbers and found that the number of senior citizens who rent in New York City, and other lesser-than cities around the U.S., have drastically increased over the past 5 years.

The high flexibility, low responsibility lifestyle is now appealing not only to the ubiquitous Millennials, but also to Baby Boomers – this generational group is leaving homeownership in droves: between 2009 and 2015, the number of renters over 55 increased by 28 percent, compared to a 3 percent increase in renters 34 years or younger. This means 2.5 million senior renter households joined the renter cohort, compared to a mere half a million renters under 34.

New York has seen one of the most significant net increases in the number of senior renter households, second only to LA: approx. 125K new senior renters abandoned homeownership in favor of renting in this metro alone.

Check out the accompanying article to read more about the trend.

The MTA is reportedly to soon be installing full-length, full-height subway platform partitions into the 3rd Avenue L-Train station. The glass dividers serve to prevent humans from falling or jumping onto the tracks, and have an added bonus of helping to prevent subway trash from making their way down to the third rail, where they can start fires.

“We’re in the design planning stages and working to overcome structural challenges for a small platform screen doors pilot at the Third Avenue Station along the L line,” said an MTA spokesman in a statement. The agency had no further details, like what materials the doors will be made of, or whether they would stretch from the platform to the ceiling. It’s also unclear when such a pilot would start, though the Third Avenue station is one that will be closed during the L train shutdown, which begins in April of 2019.

Many other public transit services across the globe already use systems like this, including London and Beijing.

If you don't listen to Jazz you my not know the great Sonny Rollins, but he is known to musicians as the "Michael Jordan of Jazz Saxophonists". Whenever he wanted to practice and hone his skills, Rollins would head up to the Williamsburg Bridge and play up there for hours. As such, there is a campaign to officially rename the Williamsburg Bridge to the Sonny Rollins Bridge:

In the summer of 1959, saxophonist Sonny Rollins disappeared from the jazz scene. He was 28 years old and at the height of his career. He would not record or perform publicly for almost 3 years, a virtual eternity for a jazz musician. Instead, Rollins took it to the bridge: he would practice, typically alone, up to 16 hours a day on the pedestrian walkway of New York’s Williamsburg Bridge, not far from his home on the Lower East Side. Rollins has said of the experience: “Playing against the sky really does improve your volume, and your wind capacity. I could have just stayed up there forever.”

During his sabbatical, Rollins also began practicing yoga, exercising, stopped smoking, and worked on improving himself. Rollins’ decision to step out of the scene was a radical act in jazz’s a pivotal year for jazz. The only way you could hear Rollins was if you walked up on the Bridge.

The renaming effort has some pretty influential backers. Legislation was recently introduced by City Council member Stephen Levin, and is supported by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.