At the Bedford Avenue stop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which serves about a third of the L train’s passengers, an average weekend day retains 90 percent of the ridership of a weekday.
The L Train is Crowded on Weekends Too
Charlatans & Cowards
Kevin Drum on the pitiful jobs report out this morning:
We are ruled by charlatans and cowards. Our economy is in the tank, we know what to do about it, and we’re just not going to do it. The charlatans prefer instead to stand by and let people suffer because that’s politically useful, while the cowards let them get away with it because it’s politically risky to fight back. Ugh indeed.
In Hawking Seafood, He Reeled in a Show
Ben Sargent, founder of Hurricane Hopeful and the underground lobster-roll man, makes the big time.
Rose Plaza Now a Conversion?
Rose Plaza: Not Coming Soon to a Waterfront Near You??
Brownstoner reports this morning that 484 Kent Avenue has a DOB permit to convert the top two floors of the building to 30 residential units. The ground floor will remain as warehouse use.
Presumably, this means that the grand plans for Rose Plaza – and its 240 affordable housing units – aren’t going to come to fruition anytime soon. If that’s the case, that is the second affordable housing project in a week to put an affordable housing promise on long-term hiatus.