Bed Stuy
(Via Wikimedia Commons)A Brooklyn man was sentenced to seven years in prison this week for slashing a woman’s face on the C train in Bed-Stuy early last year. The District Attorney’s office announced that Christopher Lange, 26, of Flatlands, pleaded to a charge of first-degree robbery earlier
Bed Stuy
CONEY ISLAND – Last week, a man stole money from the hands of a 22-year old in a deli as the victim was just trying to buy some milk at a Coney Island bodega. The theft took place on Thursday, August 16, around 7:30 pm, police said. An unidentified suspect
Bed Stuy
EAST FLATBUSH – In the early hours of Sunday, around 2:45 am, an off-duty cop shot and wounded an armed man in a wheelchair outside an East Flatbush house party. The shooting took place Sunday, August 19, when the victim began firing a gun outside a party at 145 East
Bed Stuy
BED-STUY – Police are looking for the man who struck a fellow straphanger on the subway earlier this week. On Monday, November 27, a 43-year old woman was exiting a southbound C train at Ralph Avenue Station around 8:00 am when she bumped into the suspect, said police. The man
North Western Brooklyn
The NYPD are asking the public’s assistance in identifying the group of teens seen in the above surveillance video in connection to a robbery that occurred on a C train at the Franklin Avenue subway station on the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. At approximately 4:50am on
North Western Brooklyn
As BKLYNER reported on Monday [/series-subway-assaults-brooklyn/], a 29-year-old male commuter was spat on, verbally accosted with anti-gay remarks, and punched in the face while taking a Manhattan-bound C train to work last Thursday, March 30. The attack occurred as the subway approached the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station at about 8:50am during
a train
Photo by kittymckinley [http://instagram.com/p/yZrkD7jI9t/?modal=true]The Straphanger’s Campaign [http://www.straphangers.org] rated the B line as the worst in New York City’s subway system — tied for the bottom slot with the 5 line — in their annual State of the Subways Report Card
Bombardier
Photo by kittymckinley [http://instagram.com/p/yZrkD7jI9t/?modal=true]It turns out that those replacement train cars for the C, J, and Z lines that the MTA said would be available by 2017/2018 [/blog/2015/03/25/perpetually-bumpy-c-line-may-get-new-cars-2017/] won’t be ready until 2022 now, reportedly due to
c train
Photo by kittymckinley [http://instagram.com/p/yZrkD7jI9t/?modal=true]The push for better and more frequent C train service continues apace, with straphangers and politicians alike signing a petition [http://www.ridersny.org/ctrain/] and attending rallies calling for “increased frequency, more reliability and better communication with riders.” “The
C line
Photo by kittymckinley [http://instagram.com/p/yZrkD7jI9t/?modal=true]The outdated, infrequent and bumpy C line train cars will be replaced some time in 2017, if what Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokesperson Kevin Ortiz told WNYC [http://www.wnyc.org/story/lament-c-train-rider/]‘s Kate Hinds is true. > “We
2 train
Below you’ll find weekend subway service changes in Brooklyn for the A, C, G, B, Q, D, N, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines, plus the Franklin Avenue shuttle and some notes on changes in other boroughs. Check back Monday to see what’s happening next week. Changes
2 train
Below you’ll find early week subway service changes for the A, C, G, B, Q, D, N, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines in Brooklyn, plus the Franklin Avenue shuttle. Check back Thursday to see what’s happening this weekend. Changes via MTA.info [http://www.mta.info/