Announcements
NYC Ferry Service. Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner.By Clifford Michel, for THE CITY. Originally posted on January 30, by THE CITY. Safety concerns over big boats and smaller crafts sharing a dock facility appear destined to sink NYC Ferry’s plans to expand to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal this
Bay Ridge
95th Street subway station in Bay Ridge. Via Wikimedia Commons. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Ridge%E2%80%9395th_St_td_(2018-09-19)_01.jpg] BAY RIDGE — A woman was sexually assaulted in a subway bathroom on Monday morning. Yesterday, around 10.15 a.m., a 31-year-old woman on
Announcements
West 6th Street and Avenue S. Via Google Maps.GRAVESEND — A pedestrian passed away after being struck by a car mid-January in Gravesend. On Tuesday, January 14, around 10.30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian struck at West 6th
Dyker Heights
The back entrance of PS229 in Dyker Heights, on Bay 7 Street and Benson Avenue. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.DYKER HEIGHTS — Mornings at the intersection of 14th and Benson Avenues are hectic and dangerous for students attending PS229 in Dyker Heights. In the morning, during drop-off, city buses and school buses
Central Brooklyn
Potential passenger line. Via MTAMany folks have been advocating for a passenger option along the freight line that cuts across Brooklyn connecting Bay Ridge with Astoria – for decades. Today the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that it has awarded a $1.3 million contract to engineering firm AECOM, who will
Borough Park
A screenshot of the Twitter video.BORO PARK — A shocking clip emerged yesterday of a young boy being hit by a car while attempting to run across a Borough Park street.In the 20-second clip, the boy is sent flying into the air as the car comes to a sudden
News
Train passing in Brooklyn.Northbound B, 2 and 3 trains were seriously delayed this morning, again. The northbound B train delays were caused by a signal problem at DeKalb Ave, and the 2 and 3 trains were delayed because of debris on the tracks at Eastern Parkway – Brooklyn Museum, MTA
Announcements
Menchaca, Lander, and Velázquez at a memorial for a bicyclist killed on 3rd Avenue in 2019. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Following a particularly deadly year for pedestrians and especially bicyclists in Brooklyn, the City has decided to lower the speed limit from 30 MPH to 25 MPH along 3rd Avenue
News
PARK SLOPE/DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A pattern of robberies hit the Brooklyn subway in December. A group of four suspects is targetting newsstands in Brooklyn subway stations for money and candy, cops said. Two newsstands were hit in the last few weeks. The first incident happened on Monday, December 16, around
Announcements
Bicyclist on Pulaski Bridge. Courtesy of Bike New York.Frustrated with the slow pace of data on bicycling made available by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Bike New York [https://www.bike.nyc/], which organizes the five-borough bike tour each year, released their own study this week of the Pulaski
community
Brightwater Towers in Coney Island. Kouichi Shirayanagi/Bklyner.CONEY ISLAND — Residents of Coney Island’s Brightwater Towers, located near the West 8th Street subway station, are so upset about noise from the elevated F train that 500 residents of the two buildings signed a petition to MTA President Andy Byford
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Doug Gordon. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE — Street safety advocate Doug Gordon, 45, has over 20,000 followers [https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://twitter.com/BrooklynSpoke%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1576274883841000&sa=D&ust=1576274883854000&usg=AFQjCNGqWkQy5mLQPsLURATbwAupZy5SPw]