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What Say You? Montague Street Biz Improvement District Survey

By Chuck Taylor on May 15, 2012 9:02 am in Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Parking, Shopping, Streets, Traffic

The Montague Street Business Improvement District is calling on all Brooklyn Heights Blog readers and area residents to participate in a survey to collect info on what folks think about programs & services in the nabe’s primary retail destination, as it strategizes future goals.

Four survey respondents will be randomly selected by BID to receive a $50 gift certificate at the Montague Street business of their choice. Housing Works, here I come! What are you waiting for? Access the questionnaire here. Continue Reading →

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MS Walk Tomorrow: Possible Temporary Street Closures

By Claude Scales on April 28, 2012 4:24 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Events, News, Streets, Traffic

Notify NYC sez: “Multiple street closures will be in effect throughout Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights tomorrow, Sunday, 4/29/12, from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM, in support of Walk MS.” More details on the event are here. According to the route map the walk begins at the South Street Seaport, circles around a small part of downtown Manhattan, proceeds across the Brooklyn Bridge to Adams Street, then takes Tillary Street to Cadman Plaza West. It goes south on CPW to Montague, crosses all of Montague to the Promenade, goes north on the Promenade to Columbia Heights, then down Squibb Hill to Old Fulton, and back to the Brooklyn Bridge. No exact time is given for the closure of any streets.

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Accident Jams Eastbound BQE at Brooklyn Bridge

By Claude Scales on March 21, 2012 5:59 pm in News, Traffic

If you’re hearing a lot of horn-honking coming from the BQE, Notify NYC explains why:

Due to a motor vehicle accident, all eastbound lanes of the Brooklyn Queens Expy are temporarily closed at the
Brooklyn Bridge (BK). Expect extensive delays and consider alternate routes.

Update: the easbound lanes have been re-opened but, says Notify NYC, “[e]xpect residual traffic delays.”

BHB Photo: Heather Quinlan via Facebook

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That Crunching Sound? Crane on Barge Hits Scaffolding Under Brooklyn Bridge

By Claude Scales on March 13, 2012 11:00 pm in News, Traffic

The Daily News reports that Tuesday evening, a crane carried on a barge ripped into the scaffolding, in place for repair work, under the Brooklyn Bridge. The Daily News story says there are no reported injuries, and no apparent structural damage to the bridge, though it is being inspected. At 9:15, Notify NYC reported that “[d]ue to an earlier incident the FDR exit ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge has been closed.” It advised to expect heavy traffic delays and to take alternate routes. There’s no indication of any delays to traffic bound from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

Photo: New York Daily News

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Traffic Delays on Brooklyn Bridge

By Claude Scales on February 23, 2012 8:38 am in News, Traffic

This just in from Notify NYC:

Due to Fire Department activity, traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge is being delayed in both directions. Consider alternate routes.

Update: No further word from Notify NYC, but NY 1′s traffic page shows no unusual delays on the Bridge at this time (noon).

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Sifton Reminisces About Pizzas Past, Looks to Future at BHA Meeting

By Claude Scales on February 23, 2012 1:15 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Education, Food, Landmark Preservation, News, Parking, schools, Streets, Traffic

New York Times National Editor Sam Sifton recalled a rough-and-tumble childhood growing up on Willow Street, learning tricks like heading down Grace Court, which would trick pursuers seeking to “yoke” him into thinking he would be trapped on a dead-end street, then going over the fence and walking above the BQE to safety on Remsen Street. As the Times’ former restaurant critic, he also had memories of Heights food establishments, especially the old Queen Pizzaria on Court Street and Fascati’s, which he said was for him the defining slice. Other places he remembered fondly were China Chili (a favorite of your correspondent when he first moved to the Heights in the mid 1980s), the Promenade Restaurant, Mr. Souvlaki (“no place like it in the world” Sifton thought at age ten) and Capulets, where he said most of his St. Ann’s teachers could be found from about three in the afternoon until midnight. Continue Reading →

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Traffic Snarl At Cadman Plaza & Pierrepont: Just In Time For Evening Rush

By Chuck Taylor on February 21, 2012 5:26 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Lame Excuses, Police Blotter, Traffic

One nitwit driver, six fire engines… A motorist behind the wheel of a Dodge SUV apparently decided the 4 p.m. hour Tuesday would be an ideal occasion to drive over a median strip along Cadman Plaza West at the intersection of Pierrepont Street, snarling traffic just in time for the evening rush.

The female driver, who was by herself in the silver Dodge Journey, was making a left turn from Piereppont and drove clear over a triangular concrete median on Cadman Plaza West, which dismantled the majority of her front bumper Continue Reading →

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Squadron Sponsors Crackdown on Careless Driving, and a Reader Gives a Glaring Example

By Claude Scales on February 16, 2012 9:16 am in crime, Government, Traffic

State Senator Daniel Squadron is co-sponsoring, along with Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, a bill in the state legislature that would increase the power of police to bring charges in cases where it is believed that careless driving has caused injury or death.

The legislators introduced VTL 1146 after the tragic deaths of Hayley Ng, 4, and Diego Martinez, 3, who were killed in 2009 in Chinatown when a delivery van that was left in reverse jumped the curb and hit the children. The law became effective in October 2010 and imposes stiffer penalties on drivers whose failure to exercise due care results in the injury or death of pedestrians or bicyclists. The penalties for the first offense include a $750 fine, 15 days of jail time, participation in a driver safety course, suspension or revocation of the driver’s license or registration, or any combination of these penalties, and a misdemeanor charge on a second offense. Continue Reading →

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Overturned Truck on Eastbound BQE Near Brooklyn Bridge

By Claude Scales on January 30, 2012 8:54 am in News, Traffic

This in from Notify NYC:

Notification issued 01/30/12 at 8:40 AM. Emergency personnel are on the scene of an overturned truck on the eastbound Brooklyn Queens Expressway near the Brooklyn Bridge. As a result, the eastbound Brooklyn Queens Expressway is temporarily closed near Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn. Expect traffic delays and consider alternate routes.

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Billboard Blown Down; BQE Blocked

By Claude Scales on January 13, 2012 3:26 pm in Traffic

According to Notify NYC, a billboard has been blown down near the Metropolitan Avenue exit on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, blocking traffic on the westbound (i.e. those approaching the Heights from the north and east) lanes of the highway. Emergency crews are on the scene; we’ll keep you posted.

Update: NY1 has a video. Update-update: Gothamist says the billboard was “illegal”; as of this (Saturday) morning, one lane of the BQE was still closed.

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Brooklyn Bridge Sandblasting Wreaks Havoc

By weegee on December 22, 2011 11:19 pm in Brooklyn Heights, News, Traffic, Transportation

Photo by M. Hermann for BHB

Motorists heading across the Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon were taken by surprise when their rear windows suddenly shattered. Eight cars on the Brooklyn-bound side of the bridge in the left-hand lane were passing an area where construction is ongoing, and sandblasting was in progress, when some sort of debris started hitting them. At least two cars collided during the hard brake that resulted, sending two people to the hospital. No other injuries were reported.

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Manhattan Bound Brooklyn Bridge Closed

By Claude Scales on November 23, 2011 8:18 am in News, Traffic, Weather

According to Notify NYC as of 7:25 a.m., the Manhattan bound traffic lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge are closed because of flooding. We’ll keep you posted.

Update: as of 1:30 p.m., Manhattan bound traffic is restored.

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Trucks Troubling You? Come to 84th Precinct Community Council Meeting Tuesday

By Claude Scales on November 12, 2011 10:47 pm in crime, Events, Government, Traffic

D.I. Mark DiPaolo, 84th Precinct Commander, sends us word that the 84th Precinct Community Council will meet this Tuesday evening, November 15, starting at 7:00, at the Baptist Temple, 360 Schermerhorn Street, between Third Avenue and Nevins Street. The featured event will be a report by the Truck Enforcement Unit. Also on the agenda are a Transit Police report, a precinct crime report, presentation of the Cop of the Month Award, and a question and answer period. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.

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Squadron’s Community Meeting Hits Hot Button Issues

By Claude Scales on November 2, 2011 12:31 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Development, Education, Environment, Government, Parking, Traffic, Transportation

Last evening’s Community Meeting got off to an interesting start when Brooklyn Heights resident and long time Brooklyn Bridge Park advocate Tony Manheim asked State Senator Daniel Squadron if, now that in a deal brokered in part by Squadron and Assemblywoman Joan Millman, the State has given control of the Park to the City, he and Millman would consider yielding their nominees’ position on the Park’s board to representatives appointed by the Mayor. He also asked if Squadron thought it now appropriate to have the Park’s management “collapsed into” the City’s Parks and Recreation Department. Squadron said he was “not excited” about giving up his slot on the board, but that Manheim’s ideas were “conceptually interesting.” Another person suggested that, instead of mayoral nominees, the board slots go to community representatives. Continue Reading →

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Squadron to Host Community Meeting Tuesday Evening

By Claude Scales on October 28, 2011 3:38 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Education, Events, Government, Traffic

State Senator Daniel Squadron will host a community meeting for residents of Brooklyn Heights and nearby neighborhoods this coming Tuesday evening, November 1, from 6:30 to 8:00, at Classroom A of the Dodge YMCA, 225 Atlantic Avenue (between Court Street and Boerum Place). Brooklyn Heights Association Executive Director Judy Stanton says:

Whether your concern is about the constant helicopter traffic heard all over the neighborhood, the still unresolved pedestrian access crossing the BQE ramp on the way to Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, the condition of the BQE, neighborhood need for a good public middle school, MTA services, political reforms or something else, I urge you to attend [and] add your voice to ours.

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