Gowanus
PARK SLOPE – The NYC Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]‘s (DOT) comprehensive redesign of 9th Street will begin later this week following paving work on the busy and dangerous corridor. Crews working on 9th Street at 7th Avenue (Photo: Nathan Haselby)DOT
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Last night, a city sanitation truck hit and critically injured a bicyclist on a Bushwick street. The crash took place around 8:45 pm on Wednesday, August 1, said police, and involved a woman in her 20s. The cyclist was northbound on Evergreen Street, near Menahan, when the truck,
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – A NYPD maintenance worker was killed on his way to work Wednesday morning after a tire flew off a truck and smashed into his vehicle on the Gowanus Expressway. The incident occurred just after 6:30am, a police representative said. The 64-year-old male victim was driving a Toyota
Announcements
A Revel scooter outside the companies offices at 12 Cypress Avenue in Bushwick (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – Sixty-eight shiny new electric scooters are hitting the streets of North Brooklyn in the next few days as Revel launches its pilot program for a ride-sharing business aiming for the space between CitiBike
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Last Thursday afternoon a piece of plaster crashed down onto the southbound 4/5 platform at the Brooklyn Borough Hall MTA station, about a month after debris rained down on the northbound 4/5 platform at the subway stop, injuring one commuter. Borough Hall subway station (Photo: Pamela
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Today at 5:30pm, all the speed cameras in the city will be turned off thanks to the NYS Senate’s refusal to renew and expand the bill before the end of the legislative session on June 21. Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerTransportation Alternatives [https://www.transalt.org] and
Bay Ridge
A map from the Comptroller’s report shows the lack of accessibility across Brooklyn (Via Comptroller Scott M Stringer)Issues revolving around accessibility have come to the forefront in Brooklyn, especially with citywide focus surrounding the MTA—and the extremely costly plans to upgrade the system, which is a challenge
Coney Island
KINGS HIGHWAY – A strong pushback from local business owners and elected officials delayed implementation of a Select Bus Service on B82 Route along Kings Highway to July [/b82-and-why-we-need-fast-and-reliable-bus-service/], and now it looks like more changes may be coming to the plan. MTA & DOT have been meeting with elected officials
Bushwick
Councilmember Reynoso speaking at a press conference calling for reform to the private carting industry this spring (Via Twitter)After a waste equity bill aimed at capping the level of municipal garbage handled by certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx failed to pass last year, a new bill—
Bay Ridge
The Ocean Queen Rockstar, a 350-passenger ferry and the latest addition to the NYC fleet (Via NYC EDC)The first of the New York Ferry fleet’s new 350-passenger boats has arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, making ready to begin service at the end of July. The $7.5
Coney Island
A map of CitiBike locations in Brooklyn—which stop at Prospect Park (Via CitiBike)Last week, a bike-riding Mayor de Blasio announced the roll-out of a dockless bike-share pilot in the Rockaways, but it looks like Brooklyn will have to wait: while Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island have rough
Bay Ridge
Photo by Tom PrendergastBAY RIDGE – A Brooklyn man driving the wrong way on the Belt Parkway while drunk caused a head-on crash that killed a man on Thursday. The crash took place around 1:50 am on Thursday, said police, when Aleh Sheipak, 50, drove the wrong way down the