Bensonhurst
Photo by Dan’s NYCT Buses & Trains [https://www.facebook.com/Dans-NYCT-Buses-Trains-402978353243411/photos_stream] /FacebookWe are all familiar with that sense of dread. It strikes the moment you hop out of a cab, or jump off an MTA bus, or dash out of a subway car, and then realize
Police & Fire
Source: WikipediaThe number of pedestrians struck by vehicles in Sheepshead Bay and its surrounding neighborhoods fell by 30 percent in 2015, according to police. Speaking at the 61st Precinct Community Council meeting Wednesday, Captain Jason Hagestad, the station house’s executive officer, reported that 185 people were struck by cars
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Cars parked on Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It’s no secret that residents in Sheepshead Bay are fierce guardians of their neighborhood parking spaces. Numerous development plans have died in front of the community board [/community-board-rejects-development-plans-avenue-v/] when the proposals failed to include enough spots. And the community
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanStarting January 18, N train riders are looking at [/major-n-train-renovations-to-begin-on-january-18/#.VpfOLDZ-iFI] some serious service interruptions as part of the MTA’s revamp of nine subway stations, and now pols are calling on the MTA to better accommodate local straphangers. Assemblyman William Colton, District Leader Nancy Tong and
Central Brooklyn
DOT representatives discusses changes to Terrace Place. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)The NYC Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]announced several changes to Terrace Place in Windsor Terrace in order to increase pedestrian safety in the area at a Community
News
Photo by hparr [http://websta.me/p/1017037450412103269_2261348]File this one under: “Oh god, no.” The Prospect Avenue station in Park Slope is among 30 subway stations proposed to be completely shut down in coming years [http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/subway_facelift_shutdown.php] in order as
Bensonhurst
Photo by hparr [http://websta.me/p/1017037450412103269_2261348]File this one under: “Oh god, no.” The 53rd Street and Bay Ridge Avenue stations in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge are among 30 subway stations proposed to be completely shut down in coming years [http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/
Arts & Culture
Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner“The Americans [http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-americans/about],” an Fx drama in which Keri Russell [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005392/] and Matthew Rhys [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722629/] play two KGB spies posing as Americans in Washington D.C. in
fort greene
Photo by Fort Greene FocusFile under: “oh no.” The Clinton-Washington Avenue C station, as well as the Classon Avenue and Flushing Avenue G line stations, are among 30 subway stations proposed to be completely shut down in coming years [https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/
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Photo by Mary BakijaThe driver who was behind the wheel of a school bus that crashed and flipped on its side last Friday [/blog/crime/updated-fdny-reports-7-injured-after-school-bus-flips-in-crash-on-4th-avenue-video/] has been suspended, according to the NYC Department of Education [http://schools.nyc.gov/default.htm]. “The NYPD will provide a final report to
fort greene
He still has his license and it’s not to be suspended. So said New York City Criminal Court Judge Marguerite Dougherty on Monday, January 11, after reviewing the case of Marlon Sewell, the 39-year-old Brooklyn man who drove his car onto a busy sidewalk at Fulton Street and South
Central Brooklyn
The intersection at Beverley Road and Westminster Road. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)With the news that the DOT plans to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Caton Avenue and East 8th Street [/blog/transportation/dot-to-install-traffic-light-at-caton-avenue-and-east-8th-street/] , we’ve been thinking about other intersections in the area