Jan. 14, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The family of an 8-year-old student at a Williamsburg elementary school is searching for answers after their third-grader apparently fractured his skull during gym class last week in an incident that required emergency brain surgery. Roger Gao, an 8-year-old at P.S. 250, has spent the last week recovering from… Read more »
Jan. 14, 2018 By Laura Hanrahan A Williamsburg man was killed Friday evening after he was struck by the driver of a Ford pick-up while crossing Maspeth Avenue in East Williamsburg. Jose Rubi, 51, was crossing mid block on Maspeth Avenue at around 5 p.m. on Jan. 11 when a 46-year-old man behind the wheel… Read more »
Jan. 14, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The MTA announced over the weekend that it will hold an emergency board meeting tomorrow to go over plans for the L train tunnel reconstruction. Consulting firm WSP, which designed the original 15-month shutdown plan, will attend the Jan. 15 meeting and go over its new plan for the… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Residents of a Greenpoint building are sounding the alarm on the hellish living conditions and harassment they’ve allegedly been subject to by their landlord in a years-long battle over their rent-stabilized apartments. The five remaining tenants of 97 and 99 Clay St.—a 24-unit building between McGuinness Boulevard and Manhattan… Read more »
Jan. 10, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Local officials have jointly denounced the recent acts of Anti-Semitism and hate in Greenpoint after seven stickers displaying Nazi symbols and messages of white supremacy appeared over the weekend near McGuinness Boulevard. The messages, written in black marker on USPS stickers, included, “No more white guilt, rise up,” “Jews… Read more »
Jan. 10, 2019 By Nathaly Pesantez Luis Garden Acosta, the longtime Williamsburg activist who founded El Puente, a community organizing group, died on Tuesday evening, according to the organization. He was 73. Acosta, born in Fort Greene in 1945 to Puerto Rican and Dominican parents, founded El Puente in 1982 at a time when Williamsburg’s… Read more »
Jan. 8, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The development of the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park is steadily moving forward, with a public visioning session for one of the park’s undeveloped parcels planned later this month. The meeting, led by NYC Parks, will be held on Jan. 24 at the Bushwick Inlet Park Headquarters, and focuses on… Read more »
Jan. 7, 2018 By Laura Hanrahan Several elected officials gathered in Williamsburg yesterday to publicly express their frustrations with the MTA over new L train plans that left them with “more questions than answers.” At the Jan. 6 press conference held outside the Lorimer Street station, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, along with Manhattan Borough… Read more »
Jan. 4, 2018 By Laura Hanrahan A set of recently installed signs at McGolrick Park that did away with Polish, one of the most spoken languages in Greenpoint, will soon have the language reinstated in upgraded signs after much backlash over the omission from the community. The eight new signs recently posted through the park,… Read more »
Jan. 3, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The L-pocalypse will be no more. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that a full shutdown of the L train Canarsie Tunnel as planned in April will no longer be necessary. The MTA will now forge ahead with a new plan, spearheaded by Cuomo, recommending the use of more innovative… Read more »