Business
There’s nothing quite so miserable as having to run errands on a rainy day. It’s doubly as miserable if you need to do them in further-off areas of Brooklyn without a car. And the misery could compound if you get caught in one of the MTA’s increasing
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(Photo by Michael Sandy Claus Sciaraffo)“This is my personal nightmare,” said a straphanger sitting next to me yesterday evening on a Brooklyn-bound F train. He was taking shallow breaths, with beads of sweat dripping down his face. At that point we’d been stuck underground on a sweltering F
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The Sinner [http://www.usanetwork.com/thesinner/cast] is filming in Ditmas Park this week, and you will not be able to miss it. They will be time traveling back, and filming scenes from 1997 and 2003, mostly in Ditmas Park West, with the set on Rugby between Dorchester and
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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. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)While discussing Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and NYC’s efforts to combat climate change on the Brian Lehrer Show
Business
Reporting across Brooklyn can be challenging without access to a car. The time it takes to get to the scene of a story, then to the 3-4 others on a given day can easily be eaten up in just travel.ReachNow [https://reachnow.com/en/brooklyn-ny/] offered a test drive
Downtown Brooklyn
More violence on the subways. On Saturday, May 20, a woman riding the Q train was beaten unconscious by a crazed homophobe, the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/anti-lgbt-bigot-turns-q-train-ride-nightmare-couple-article-1.3193042] reports. At approximately 7:30pm, a 24-year-old woman and her girlfriend were sitting on a
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Waiting for the ferry @ 69th Street pier yesterday at 6:30pm. @chunkit_photography [https://www.instagram.com/chunkit_photography/]The South Brooklyn Ferry route launched yesterday morning from the 69th street pier. Real time bike availability updates /@chunkit_photography [https://www.instagram.com/chunkit_photography/] with permissionNow you are a
Bensonhurst
The recently repaved parking lot at Jmart on 18th Avenue and 82nd Street is getting ready for customers. In anticipation, the fees you’ll have to pay for the privilege of shopping there have been posted. If you come by car, the least you’ll pay is $3.00, assuming
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(Photo via Justin Brannan)The X28 bus — connecting Sea Gate, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights to Midtown Manhattan — will now be permanent, said State Senator Martin Golden yesterday. After a trial period that started in Septemeber 2016 [/x28-weekend-express-service-back-mta-review-ridership-bensonhurst/], the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board voted this week to permanently
Business
(Courtesy Twitter/ReachNow [https://twitter.com/reachnow/status/856562079561601026])With the weather warming and Memorial Day weekend fast approaching, now is the time to treat yourself to a Mini vacation… or a BMW staycation, if you prefer. Just in time for summer, ReachNow [https://reachnow.com/en/brooklyn-ny/], an innovative
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Manhattan-bound N trains re-open at 20th Avenue station and 8 other southern Brooklyn stations. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)It’s official, we visited all nine stations on the N line that were slated to open on Monday [/n-train-shuffle-man-bound-stations-re-open-monday-closures-ahead/] — and all MTA employees on-site confirmed that the Manhattan-bound N train
Arts & Culture
The Last O.G is filming this Thursday on Carroll Street, along the Park and between Smith and Hoyt, based on the pink notices posted this morning. Move your cars by tomorrow night, neighbors. Last week Turner’s TBS announced [https://www.turner.com/pressroom/upfront-2017-tbss-tracy-morgan-comedy-last-og-casts-cedric-entertainer-taylor-mosby-dante] that they had has