Bushwick
Myrtle-Wyckoff Station in Bushwick (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Commuter bike parking will be coming to Myrtle-Wyckoff plaza this spring, giving Bushwick residents an opportunity to park their bikes securely, for a small fee. Further details about the pilot program were presented by a DOT spokesperson at the Community Board
Bensonhurst
Passengers wait for the B8 bus at 18th Avenue and New Utrecht (Via Carmen Molina Tamacas)New Bus Time clocks have made their way onto the B8 bus route down 18th Avenue, with 5 of the LED signs giving passengers a heads up on when the next bus is due.
Bushwick
A ferry crosses in front of the Williamsburg Bridge (Photo via NYC Ferry) WILLIAMSBURG – Last night, during a joint presentation to Community Board 1 regarding the upcoming closure of the L train and repairs to the Canarsie Tunnel, the MTA and DOT revealed a host of new information, including new
Downtown Brooklyn
Council Speaker Corey Johnson at last Friday’s press conference on BQE repairs (Jeff Reed/NYC Council)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The debate over BQE repairs heated up last week, as state and local politicians gathered in Brooklyn Heights on Friday, calling on Governor Cuomo to include design-build authorization for the project
canarsie
WILLIAMSBURG – Tonight, the second L Train open house [/mta-and-dot-announce-open-house-meetings-regarding-l-train-closure/] in Brooklyn will take place, an event sponsored by both the MTA and the DOT. Tonight’s meeting will be the third in a series of four (two each in Brooklyn and Manhattan) that was announced in January so the two
Announcements
MTA MetroCard vending machines will be cash only for six hours this coming Saturday.After last week’s public outcry over the MTA’s plans to go cash only for the weekend [/mta-machines-wont-take-credit-cards-this-weekend/] while upgrading their vending machine’s credit-card systems led to a quick reversal and delay, the organization
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Last week a reader in Park Slope sent in the above photo of a sign posted by the NYC Department of Design & Construction (DDC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/ddc/about/about-ddc.page] advising neighbors about BED798, a major construction project that began on Wednesday, January 31
Announcements
UPDATE 1:30 PM: Scratch that—the MTA has decided not to update its MetroCard vending machines this weekend, which would’ve prevented credit card transactions for more than two days, according to a recent post on Twitter. “We heard you all loud and clear,” they tweeted in response to
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST – “We have all seen it time and again in our communities: the Department of Transportation resurfaces our streets, only for a utility company to rip up the street a couple of weeks later in order to perform work. The process is inefficient, and residents are left inconvenienced,” Council Member
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK/KENSINGTON – NYC Department of Transporation (DOT) had promised to have the traffic light by the new elementary (PS889) and middle school (IS890) on the corner of Hinckley Place and Coney Island Avenue up by February. We were delighted to see that the workers were busy installing the signal
Bed Stuy
On a wet Sunday morning, neighbors and elected officials demonstrated their support for Kevin Flores’s family. (Greg Lewis/BKLYNER)UPDATE (1/30/18): A Go Fund Me page has been started [https://www.gofundme.com/supportthefamilyofkevinflores] to assist Kevin’s family with the cost of funeral arrangements BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Dozens
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – Representatives from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) came to the Community Board 13 meeting on Wednesday night with an update on the large projects in the works for Surf Avenue. Residents met the projected addition of over 2,500 units or potentially 10,000 new