Jan. 16, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The emergency Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting held yesterday that was meant to serve as a discussion and information session over new L train plans has instead left many members with unanswered questions and concerns about the revised course for the line. The nearly three-and-a-half-hour meeting going over the… Read more »
Jan. 16, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Greenpoint’s waterfront may soon be seeing yet another large mixed-use development after plans were filed earlier this week for a 173-unit project on Huron Street. Quadrum Global, a London-based private equity firm, pre-filed plans on Monday for a single commercial and residential development that would be split between two… Read more »
Jan. 15, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Customized Coca-Cola bottles displaying the name “Jakelin” are currently being sold at a Williamsburg bodega in memory of the 7-year-old who died in U.S. custody late last year. Jakelin Caal Maquin died of dehydration and liver failure in December hours after she and her father, 29-year-old Nery Gilberto Caal… Read more »
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 »