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Tonight: Community Board 15 To Consider Developments In Gravesend

Community Board 15 is meeting tonight, February 24, at 7:00 p.m. at Kingsborough Community College (2001 Oriental Boulevard) in the faculty dining room. On the agenda are public hearings for four five zoning items. Here are the applications being considered: 1316 Avenue S – An application for a special

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Everything You Need To Know About The MTA’s Proposed Fare & Toll Hikes

Source: Flickr/haagenjerrysOnce again, the MTA has announced plans to raise fares and tolls – this time by 2 percent a year for the next two years. The 30-day MetroCard will definitely jump from $112 to $116.50, but the MTA is deliberating on whether to raise the price of the

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The $21 Million Vision For A Resilient Sheepshead Bay: What You Need To Know

The New York Rising project, a state-sponsored, federally-funded program to make coastal communities more resilient in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, will unveil the final proposals for Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach tonight, revealing the $21.3 million vision to help us better withstand and more quickly recover from future

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Tomorrow: Forum To Re-Envision Sheepshead Bay And Its Commercial – Recreational Corridors

Click for full flierA group of city planners and neighborhood activists will be meeting tomorrow, March 5, at 7:00 p.m. to begin creating a new comprehensive vision of the Sheepshead Bay waterfront’s commercial and recreational corridors. The public forum, open to all and taking place at the

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Better Coordination Of Transportation Modes Is Key To A Well-Balanced System

Source: (vincent desjardins) / FlickrTHE COMMUTE: About a week before Hurricane Sandy, I got a delightful surprise in the form of an email from a senior MTA executive who worked at the Chicago Transit Authority earlier in his career complimenting me on my series, “A Tale of Two Cities: Chicago and

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Cuomo Waives Bond Fee And More

Source: MTAPhotos / FlickrTHE COMMUTE: MTA funding always seems to be in the news. Another fare hike is scheduled for January 2013. The MTA’s continuing money woes are primarily due to the large debt it has to repay on the money it borrows through its bonds. Repealing a portion of

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As Sheepshead Bay Mosque Construction Progresses, Organizers Renew Outreach Efforts

Photo by nolastnameIt’s been a while since we’ve had a proper update on the Sheepshead Bay mosque (2812 Voorhies Avenue). Last we heard, the opponents of the mosque, Bay People, lost their zoning challenge against the construction, but vowed to push forward with their lawsuit against the mosque’

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Op-Ed: Select Bus Service On Nostrand Is A Sham

Photo by a-NeRo86 via Flickr The following op-ed is by Allan Rosen, a Manhattan Beach resident and former Director of MTA/NYC Transit Bus Planning (1981). For a complete list of his contributions to Sheepshead Bites, which includes many articles about the bus cuts, MTA and DOT, click here. In

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B4 Cuts Revised, But Still Problematic

Allan Rosen is a 25-year veteran of the MTA, including a former Director of Bus Planning. He’s also a Sheepshead Bay-area resident and one of the original planners behind the B4 route. He previously criticized the MTA’s latest round of cuts, and here he questions the revisions made