Central Brooklyn
Photo by sirsamuelortiz [http://websta.me/p/1077987424418210558_1481684679]Q train riders can look forward to shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Atlantic Avenue for four consecutive weekends starting at the end of January while the MTA does needed track work. The work starts on the weekend beginning Saturday,
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanStarting January 18, N train riders are looking at [/major-n-train-renovations-to-begin-on-january-18/#.VpfOLDZ-iFI] some serious service interruptions as part of the MTA’s revamp of nine subway stations, and now pols are calling on the MTA to better accommodate local straphangers. Assemblyman William Colton, District Leader Nancy Tong and
Bensonhurst
Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst BeanSouthern Brooklyn’s decrepit N line stations [/post-apocalyptic-n-line-get-repairs-screwing-commute/] will finally get some TLC this month, but unfortunately that comes with a price for local commuters. The first half of the MTA’s planned four-year renovation [/construction-on-six-n-line-stations-is-underway-heres-what-you-need-to-know/] of the long-neglected subway line will begin on January
Bensonhurst
1815 86th Street in August 2014. (Source: Google Maps)A new commercial building on 86th Street — which has been under construction since last year — is set to open early this spring. The 8,200 square foot, one-story retail space, located at 1815 86th Street, will be able to hold between
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The construction site at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Emergency responders closed down a section of Voorhies Avenue for an hour Tuesday morning after a pile driver collapsed at the construction site for the proposed 28-story tower beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station. The FDNY says first
Bensonhurst
Source: Google MapsThis dreary building on 71st Street is a windowless dungeon no longer. Located at 2165 71st Street, right off of Bay Parkway, the grey structure that once housed the ambiguously named and untraceable “Bensonhurst Medical Center” has been under construction for several months now — and what a change
Bensonhurst
2125 72nd Street (Source: Google Maps)This somewhat secluded, 624-square-foot, single-family home, located at 2125 72nd Street, won’t be the runt of the litter for long. The quaint structure is about to get razed and rebuilt by property owner Kenneth Wong, who has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit
construction
Photo by Suzanne DeboldOur neighbor Suzanne Debold snapped this photo of construction at 4th Avenue and 12th Street. A very familiar sight around the neighborhood. Perhaps too familiar for some. Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Share it with us! Add it to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/
Charles Jarden
Photo by Fort Greene FocusSeveral people have asked us what the status of construction is over at the Willoughby Avenue entrance to Fort Greene Park and after asking around, it still seems to be on track for a November completion. Construction was “50 percent complete” back in May [/blog/2015/
construction
Ever wonder why the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is always under construction? The MTA released two Youtube videos describing the agency’s ongoing Verrazano-Narrows projects [/235-7m-awarded-to-verrazano-narrows-bridge-for-upper-deck-and-hov-lane-project/] : the upper level deck replacement project [/lane-closures/]and the construction of the new HOV/bus ramp [/verrazano-bridge-to-get-an-hov-lane-in-2017/] that will connect the HOV/bus lane from the
Nonsponsored
The corner of 5th Avenue and 17th Street is getting ready to grow. Work is now underway in the parking lot that used to belong to the now-defunct women’s department store Aaron’s [/blog/photos/south-slope-ghost-signs-aarons], where a seven-story apartment building will soon rise. A construction fence has gone
520 neptune ave
Renderings of the proposed tower. (Photo by Neal Storman)Developer Rubin Schron’s plan to build a skyscraper in Coney Island [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2015/01/massive-40-story-tower-proposed-brighton-coney-border-public-meeting-scheduled-wednesday/] is not going over well with residents. More than 700 Coney Island community members filled an auditorium at Abraham Lincoln High School