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Archive | August, 2023
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The only planned service change directly and adversely affecting any local stations this weekend — late evening Friday, August 11 through early Monday morning, January 14 — is that 4 trains will not be serving Brooklyn in either direction. This means there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 5 […]
Reports of Harrassment and Threats on Promenade
Mary Frost in the Eagle quotes a number of Heights residents concerning harrassment and threats, mostly occurring at the north end of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and often including ant-LGBTQ slurs, by unidentified men. The story includes two photos supplied by a Heights resident of an “allegedly threatening individual.” Ms. Frost states that an NYPD […]
High Winds Cause Damage in Brooklyn Heights
Walking through Brooklyn Heights today, Martha Foley saw two instances of trees uprooted by high winds from last night’s storm, including one, in her photo, that damaged a window at Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral.
Cadman Park Synthetic Turf Area To Close For 2-3 Months
Brooklyn Community Board District 2 informs that the Cadman Park turf area will be closed for an estimated two to three months to replace the synthetic turf, starting next week. The Cadman Park Oval Reconstruction is also ongoing. Reconstruction of the Cadman Plaza public restroom building is in the procurement stage. See more details of […]
Overweight Truck Monitoring Starts on BQE, Thanks to Local Electeds
As reported by Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, starting this week the City’s Department of Transportation will start monitoring, using scales and license plate readers that were installed “months ago,” the weight of trucks using the Queens bound lanes of the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that lies below Brooklyn Heights. Monitoring of the […]
Promenade Slasher at Large
As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, police are searching for a man who used a knife to repeatedly slash on the right hand a 22 year old man, who at the time was sitting on a bench at the north end of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, last Tuesday, August 1. According to the […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — Late Friday evening, August 4 to early Monday morning, August 7 — there will be no 3 train service. 2 trains should be running normally and will make all 3 train stops in both directions between 96th Street in Manhattan and Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. 4 trains, which should also […]
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