Sep. 10, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s aging triple cantilever has been patched and repaired, and the city is moving now to further protect it from further damage. For the next two weekends, a small section of the Staten Island-bound BQE in Brooklyn Heights will be down to one lane as the…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Dean Moses A Crown Heights man was shot and killed in a Bed-Stuy subway station late on Wednesday night, according to police. Law enforcement sources said the victim — 47-year-old Freddie Weston of Sterling Place — was killed next to a MetroCard vending machine at the Rockaway Avenue train station…
Sep. 3, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The G train is finally back to full service following a painful summer shutdown. The Crosstown Line returned to its full route between Court Square in Long Island City, Queens and Church Avenue in Kensington, Brooklyn at 5 a.m. on Sept. 3. The line had been shuttered in phases…
Aug. 30, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen North Brooklyn residents and street-safety advocates took to the streets of Greenpoint on their bicycles Tuesday night in protest of the city’s stripped-back redesign of McGuinness Boulevard. Protestors accused Mayor Eric Adams of ignoring the community and his own Department of Transportation by deciding the city would abandon…
Aug. 15, 2024 By Adam Daly
Seasonal ferry service from Brooklyn to Governors Island will continue running until October after it received $250,000 in state funding, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and the Trust for Governors Island announced Wednesday.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
House Minority Leader and Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was back in his home district Monday morning to help ceremonially break ground on a federally-funded accessibility project on the G line.
Aug. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A Crown Heights man will spend seven years behind bars for slashing a straphanger’s face on the subway last year.
Jul. 26, 2024 By Jada Camille
Street safety improvements are on their way to Atlantic Avenue, thanks to a series of short-term projects by the New York City Department of Transportation.
Jul. 22, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann
The streets surrounding three Brownsville schools will become much safer for students and pedestrians thanks to a $1 million cash infusion secured by U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for his district in the fiscal year 2024 government funding bill.
Jul. 18, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A “slip” of Bedford Avenue in Greenpoint has been transformed into a temporarily-permanent pedestrian plaza during the six-week shutdown of the G train.