Announcements
SUNSET PARK – The MTA released a Request for Proposals (RFP) today to develop the airspace above a 3.8-acre section of the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch freight rail corridor located on 61st Street between Fort Hamilton Parkway and 8th Avenue. Via MTA’s 61st Street Overbuild RFPThe MTA is
News
The scene outside the Atlantic Terminal after the derailment. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)A Long Island Rail Road train carrying approximately 430 passengers at rush hour slammed into the end of the platform at Atlantic Terminal Wednesday morning. More than 100 commuters were injured, although Governor Andrew Cuomo said
fort greene
Have you had your pumpkin spice? Ready to put on your Uggz? Well, grab your copy of Infinite Jest because it’s Fall. There’s no better place to watch the leaves change than Fort Greene Park, and there’s no better place to live than Fort Greene and Clinton
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(Courtesy: Brooklyn Navy Yard)The Brooklyn Navy Yard has released photos of its new shuttle buses as part of its improved transportation system. The Yard says its transportation plan will provide its growing workforce with direct access to all corners of the city. The brand-new shuttles can be tracked
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Image via iamtonyang [http://iamtonyang.com/1007/ticket_machine.jpg].Would you ride the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) if there were a discount between Atlantic Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York? If so, that is what Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the New York City Transit Riders Council
LIRR
Police are investigating the deaths of two unidentified men found 10 feet apart along on the Long Island Rail Road freight tracks in Borough Park Thursday. NYPD officers responded to a call at 7:50pm, and found the men unconscious on the trackbed near 67th Street and 15th Avenue, cops
Bay Ridge
Image via the Port Authority [http://www.panynj.gov/about/CHFP_draft_Tier_1_EIS/05_Transportation.pdf] Tomorrow, February 3, from 4-8pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon Street), you’ll be able to tell the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey what you think of
LIRR
Here’s to hoping you don’t have to take the LIRR [http://lirr42.mta.info/] this weekend (though the Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-officials-lirr-union-leaders-close-averting-strike-source-article-1.1870144] MTA officials and union leaders being close to
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Source: SheepsheadBites.comCity Councilman-elect Mark Treyger expressed concern that muni-meters could be the target of identity thieves bent on stealing money from unsuspecting motorists. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/are-identity-thieves-tampering-muni-meters-2013-11-27-150000] that Treyger wants
Bedford Avenue
For anyone who drives, bikes, or walks around the Brooklyn College area, you’ll want to know about the upcoming rehabilitation to the Bedford Avenue Bridge [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bedford-Avenue-Bridge-over-LIRR-rehab.pdf] over the LIRR tracks, between Campus Rd and
Bay Ridge Line
Before the LIRR-owned Bay Ridge Line was cut out and pushed below Coney Island Avenue, its tracks covered the street. Here they are in 1907, looking north from Avenue H. They are crossing trolley lines headed north and south along Coney Island Avenue. Today, the freight-only line runs
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Source: Arrts-Arrchives.com THE COMMUTE [../tag/the-commute/]: The MTA does a decent job when it comes to finding and returning lost property to its rightful owners, except when it comes to finding its own property. The New York Times reported on Saturday [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/