Transit officials plan to shut down overnight L train service for a large swath of Brooklyn stations for the two weeks, and during every weekend in January, according to the recent L train repairs newsletter.
L Train Won’t Run At Night For Two Weeks In Brooklyn: MTA
Angry residents bash Brooklyn community board for buying $26K SUV
“We went through established protocol,” [CB1 Board Chair Dealice] Fuller said.
This pretty clearly was not the case, and the Community Board has basically put out all the breadcrumbs to prove that. I expect that this is not over.
Brooklyn tough guy ‘Frenchie’ Ramos dies at age 76
Frenchie Ramos, whose gym was at the corner of Marcy and Broadway (looking out on the platform of the Manhattan-bound J/M/Z platform), has passed away.
An Old Brooklyn Church Seeks New Muscle to Save a Tradition
Katie Honan on the search for a new generation of paranzas (paranze??) to lift up the Giglio at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s annual Feast of San Paolino.
“The Greenpoint” Developer Offers India Street Elevated Walkway for Flooded Ferry Entrance
What happens if you rezone a neighborhood for thousands of new residents, but don’t bother to plan any infrastructure around it?
As I understand it, India Street’s catch basins don’t tie into the City’s sewer system, they never have. And the City doesn’t have plans for these hookups for a number of years out. So people who wanted to get to the India Street Pier (and the ferry) were facing years of having to parkour over the plastic barriers to get to the pier. But now the developer of the “The Greenpoint” condominium is addressing the access to India Street via a temporary raised sidewalk while (as they should, even though the lack of infrastructure isn’t their doing this is literally their front yard).
Mayor de Blasio Calls for Probe of Community Board SUV Purchase
The Council was proud to provide community boards across the city with additional funding for the first time in years so they could better serve their neighborhoods
Presumably CB1 will better serve the community by driving them places.
Brooklyn Community Board Roils Over $26,000 SUV Splurge
The City (which is killing it in general) exposes CB1’s not-so-secret decision to take the car behind door #1.
TL;DR – CB1 decided to use a City Council grant intended to promote community outreach and engagement to buy $26,000 RAV4 SUV.
City Hall’s $369 Million Riverboat Gamble on Ferries
From the newly-minted local news site The City – how the City (of New York) got to the point of owning a fleet of ferry boats for its new public-private partnership with Hornblower. From what the article describes, the city’s Economic Development Corporation passed over local operators with local experience and their own fleet of boats in favor of an out-of-town outfit that was able to offload the purchase of new boats to the city (not even EDC). It sure sounds like the locals got screwed in the bidding process, too.
MTA Shuts Down Independent Review Of L Train Unshutdown Plan
I missed this Gothamist article last week. Despite repeated promises by the head of the MTA (“I have stated a number of times already in this meeting that a third party team will be engaged to report to the board and me, all of us, on what the best path forward is”, Fredy Ferrer – January 2019), the MTA is NOT hiring a third-party consultant to review Governor Cuomo’s L train tunnel plan. In a Trumpian twist, Ferrer now says that was all fake news, and the third-party consultant was only meant to monitor safety and environmental issues DURING construction (“the consultant was never [meant] to come back to the board with a comparison”, Ferrer – March, 2019).
Maybe the consultants first job can be to tell us why all the MTA employees at the Bedford Avenue station are wearing dust masks all the time, but the air is safe to breathe for commuters.
Goodbye Beautiful: Celebrity Stylist Ditches Williamsburg
“I don’t like it here anymore. I just don’t.”
From the Mini Mall to Metropolitan Avenue to Bushwick – 20 years of Williamsburg retail encapsulated.