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Atlantic Avenue rendering via NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2015-06-15-atlantic-ave-cb5.pdf] Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-1122-million-funding-support-transportation-enhancements-across-new] last week that he will award $112.2 million to 81 projects that support bicycle and pedestrian safety enhancements and improve air quality
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Photo by vanessaku via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BR8gECjBm65/]Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans for major improvements to city roads in an effort to increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists in all five boroughs. Under the next phase of his Vision Zero Plan, the Mayor’s
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Brownsville Academy High School via Google MapsGovernor Andrew Cuomo’s $1.4 billion dollar plan to help revitalize long-neglected parts of Central Brooklyn is raising concerns for some of the residents of the targeted areas. Released on March 9, the plan, called “Vital Brooklyn,” targets the Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Crown Heights,
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“Made in NY” Campus rendering via the Office of Mayor Bill de BlasioMayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/084-17/state-the-city-mayor-de-blasio-creates-made-ny-manufacturing-campus-bush-terminal-in#/0] the city’s $136 million plan for a 300,000-square-foot “Made in New York” Campus at Sunset Park’s Bush Terminal. Joined by
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Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his State of the City address at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Monday, February 13, 2017. Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography OfficeLast night, Mayor de Blasio delivered his State of the City address, promising: “We’re going to do things a different way here
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Rendering of a possible BQX streetcar line near the Atlantic Terminal in downtown Brooklyn. (Courtesy: Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector)An investigation [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/developers-planned-streetcar-route-donate-de-blasio-article-1.2906024?cid=bitly] by the Daily News is charging that the de Blasio administration initiated the planning of the BQX
Central Brooklyn
Photo by gofaceyourself [https://instagram.com/p/07y3Pbju4X/?taken-by=gofaceyourself]In response to looming subway and bus fare hikes [/with-impending-fare-hike-for-subways-buses-riders-to-have-limited-input-vote/] , advocates are renewing their call to Mayor de Blasio to implement half-priced MetroCards for low-income riders. The MTA has announced a two-year, 4 percent fare hike, taking effect in March
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Photo by gofaceyourself [https://instagram.com/p/07y3Pbju4X/?taken-by=gofaceyourself]In response to looming subway and bus fare hikes [/with-impending-fare-hike-for-subways-buses-riders-to-have-limited-input-vote/] , advocates are renewing their call to Mayor de Blasio to implement half-priced MetroCards for low-income riders. The MTA has announced a two-year, 4 percent fare hike, taking effect in March
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Twenty-eight (one-fifth) of the apartments in the building under construction at 504 Myrtle Avenue [http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/09/15/new-eight-story-development-include-market-rate-apartments/] (between Ryerson Street and Grand Avenue) will reportedly be offered at “below market rate” and available through an affordable housing lottery. (Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership &
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Twenty-eight (one-fifth) of the apartments in the building under construction at 504 Myrtle Avenue [http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/09/15/new-eight-story-development-include-market-rate-apartments/] (between Ryerson Street and Grand Avenue) will reportedly be offered at “below market rate” and available through an affordable housing lottery. (Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership &
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Photo via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1954223038136780&set=gm.453291988193067&type=3&theater] The Low-Down is our new round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over the city. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson to take
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Park Slope Rowhouses. (Photo: Park Slope Stoop)Another sign of Fall — the City’s 2016-2017 “heat season” began on Saturday and continues through May 31, 2017. Mayor de Blasio and Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Vicki Been issued a statement today reminding residential building owners of their