As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle Friday and linked in a comment by Mary Kim to her earlier post, the start of repair work to the cantilevered parts of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway beneath Clark Street and beneath Grace Court was postponed for a second time, and is now scheduled to begin Monday, July […]
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Update on BQE Repair Plans
Mary Frost in The Eagle has a comprehensive report on the Department of Transportation’s virtual community meeting Thursday evening discussing plans for interim repairs to the BQE this summer. Your correspondent also attended; here are some quick takeaways: 1. The work will take place at three locations: below the foot of Grace Court, below the […]
Suspect Arrested in Joralemon Street Stabbing and Robbery
As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, police have arrested Nicolas Giraldo, 25, who is suspected of having robbed and stabbed a 55 year old man on Joralemon Street near Columbia Place at 6:33 AM on Tuesday, June 13. The suspect, a Queens resident, was arrested in Manhattan, where he is suspected of having […]
Heights Author Melanie Hope Greenberg Reads Her “Mermaids On Parade” at B&N on Atlantic Saturday
Another tip from Mary Frost in the Eagle. Author, illustrator, and Brooklyn Heights resident Melanie Hope Greenberg will be at Barnes & Noble, 194 Atlantic Avenue, this Saturday, June 10 at 11:00 am to read her children’s classic, Mermaids on Parade, which is about the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, which will take place the following […]
Why Is a BQE Solution So Hard to Find? Will We Lose Chapin Playground and Access to Fulton Ferry/DUMBO?
In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker sci-fi trilogy he imagined something called an “SEP field.” A spaceship surrounded by such a field became invisible because it was “Someone Else’s Problem.” The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, it seems, isn’t covered by a single SEP field, but by a multiplicity of them, depending on the point of view. For those of […]
Key Food Montague Robbed by Knife Wielding “Surfing Dude”
As Mary Frost reports in the Eagle, last Monday, March 6, Ivan Aguello, co-owner of Key Food Montague, saw a strange man who “looked like a California surfing dude” (follow the link to Ms. Frost’s story to see photos) entering the store holding an empty shopping bag. Mr. Arguello kept an eye on him because […]
BQE Developments: the Number-of-Lanes Controversy
As we noted a week ago, the City Department of Transportation is considering the question of whether “BQE Central,” the cantilevered part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street and below Brooklyn Heights should, in whatever final design for a rebuilt BQE is adopted, keep the two lanes and shoulder in each […]
Can We Have Some Love for Sidewalk Sheds?
Lately we’ve had a lot of negative remarks on Open Thread Wednesday — see here and here — some of them by Yours Truly, about sidewalk sheds or sidewalk bridges (sometimes mistakenly called “scaffolding” — that’s what goes above them), especially about those that are seen to have outlasted their neighbors’ patience, if not that […]
MTA Gives Low Priority to Upgrade of York Street Station Called a “disaster waiting to happen”
As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, the MTA has made upgrading the York Street subway station in DUMBO, which serves the F line (and during what seem to be frequent route diversions, the A and C lines as well), “low on its list of priorities”. Asked why, at a Zoom town hall sponsored […]
Delay in BQE Truck Monitoring
As we noted two years ago, the State Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Senator Brian Kavanaugh and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, that was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, authorizing the City Department of Transportation to install weigh stations along the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that lies below Brooklyn Heights and its Promenade. […]
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