Brooklyn Community Board 2 has advised us that many Brooklyn Heights streets are scheduled for milling and repaving during daytime hours next week. The schedule is: Remsen Street from the Promenade entrance to Clinton Street: Monday, June 25 and Tuesday, June 26. Monroe Place, College Place, Love Lane, and Willow Street: Tuesday, June 26. Middagh […]
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
Hallelujah! While there will still be no 2 or 3 service in either direction at Clark Street or Borough Hall (with 4 and 5 trains providing alternate service from Manhattan and to and from destinations further in Brooklyn) from late night Friday, June 22 through Saturday, June 23, full 2 and 3 service will be […]
The Subway Is Going to Pieces
Literally. The sky is falling. Multiple news outlets reported yesterday that a piece of the ceiling over the 4/5 platform at Borough Hall simply fell at around 3pm on Wednesday. @NYCTSubway I heard a loud bang, I turn around, and a part of the ceiling COLLAPSED. This was on the Manhattan bound 4/5 train platform […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
If we’re to believe the MTA, this will be the last weekend (late Friday evening, June 15 to early Monday morning, June 18) that post-Sandy repair work closes the tunnels connecting the 2 and 3 lines between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meaning there is no service in either direction at Clark Street or at the 2/3 […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This coming weekend the absence of 2/3 service in either direction at Clark Street and at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall, which the MTA now tells us will end on Saturday, June 23, is the only planned service change directly affecting stations in or near Brooklyn Heights. The following work week (Monday, June 11 […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This weekend is a copy of the last two, viz: apart from the absence of 2/3 service in either direction at Clark Street and at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall, which the MTA tells us will end at midnight on Sunday, June 24, the only route diversion affecting local stations negatively is that, from […]
Subway Service Alerts, and a Town Hall with the New MTA Prexy
Our friends at the Brooklyn Heights Association have notified us that new MTA President Andy Byford (photo) will be present to talk and answer questions about his plan to repair and improve the subway system at a town hall meeting to be held this coming Tuesday, May 29 from 6:30 t0 8:30 PM at the […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
Apart from the absence of 2/3 service in either direction at Clark Street and at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall, which the MTA tells us will end at midnight on Sunday, June 24, the only route diversion affecting local stations negatively is that, from 9:30 tonight (Friday, May 18) to 5:00 AM Monday, May […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
Good news! We have a projected time for the end of the post-Sandy tunnel reconstruction work on the 2/3 line that has meant no weekend service in either direction to or from Clark Street or the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. According to the MTA’s website, service should be restored at 12:01 AM on Sunday, […]
All That Shooting? It’s Not Your Imagination
Over the last few weeks, those little multi-colored notices on trees and street signs have flourished almost as efflorescently as the white blossoms that are harbingers of spring in our neighborhood. Locals, though, don’t welcome the signs with quite as much enthusiasm as they do the blossoms. The Brooklyn Eagle reports what we always know to be […]
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