Murder in Williamsburg; 'Stranger Things' Kids at Coney; and More Brooklyn Briefs

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- Man shot and killed in Williamsburg while trying to run away from fight called 911 before collapsing. [NY Daily News]

- Spotted in the wild: The strange case of Brooklyn’s Trump supporters. [Brokelyn]

- Nitehawk Cinema opening second Brooklyn location. [Brooklyn Vegan]

- Why de Blasio hit a wall on stopping traffic deaths (and why those pedestrian islands were ripped out). [NY Post]

- You missed the kids from ‘Stranger Things’ in Coney Island Monday. [Brokelyn]

- Spider-Man, a hammerhead shark or a life-size Lego figure can all be yours at a prop shop in Brooklyn. [NY1]

- Woody Allen filming in Coney Island next week. [Sheepshead Bites].

- VIDEO: Inside the crazy Coney Island Beard And Mustache Competition. [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Put in Your Two Cents About NYC's Planned Citywide Ferry Service, Tomorrow in Brooklyn Heights

Courtesy of NYCEDC

On Monday, May 24, a DEIS Public Hearing will be held in at 6:00pm at St. Francis College (Remsen St. and Clinton St.) in Brooklyn Heights to discuss Citywide Ferry Service.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is working with the Office of Mayor de Blasio to launch the service. It will consist of five new ferry routes in addition to the existing East River Ferry service, charging a fare of $2.75.

Meetings will be held in the other boroughs as well.

More here.

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Hearing on Citywide Ferry Service to be Held in Brooklyn

Courtesy of NYCEDC

On May 24, a DEIS Public Hearing will be held in at 6:00pm at St. Francis College (Remsen St. and Clinton St.) in Brooklyn Heights to discuss Citywide Ferry Service.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is working with the Office of Mayor de Blasio to launch the service. It will consist of five new ferry routes in addition to the existing East River Ferry service, charging a fare of $2.75.

Meetings will be held in the othr boroughs as well.

More here.

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Meetings to Discuss L Train Repairs to Be Held in May, Starting in Brooklyn

Image courtesy MTA

 The MTA and elected officials have announced the first of two public meetings to discuss future work on the Canarsie Tunnel, which carries the L subway train under the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The first meeting will be held on Thursday, May 5 at 6 p.m. at the Marcy Avenue Armory at 355 Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn. A Manhattan-based public meeting to be held later in May will be announced soon, according to the MTA.

Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast said the public meetings will mark the official start of a "robust community engagement effort in which we will detail the need for the project, solicit feedback from the public on the potential construction options and begin a collaborative process to develop an alternative service plan to mitigate impacts on L Subway train riders.”

Any 24/7 closure of the Canarsie Tunnel’s two tubes is unlikely to begin before January of 2019, the MTA said.

The public meetings will include a discussion of the potential construction approaches currently under consideration. They will also include an open house at which community members can discuss their concerns with MTA staff; a presentation from MTA and NYC Transit leadership and technical staff; and a question and answer period.

More.

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Half Price MetroCards for NYC's Poor?

At a rally on Sunday, Community Service Society and Riders Alliance announced “Fair Fares,” a campaign for reduced-fare MetroCards for the city’s working poor.
In the Transit for All program, an estimated 800,000 riders would be eligible for a half-price fare for lowest-income residents, saving those who opt to participate up to $700 per year.

A reports issued by the groups found that over a quarter of low-income New Yorkers were often unable to afford the subway or bus in the past year.

Farebeating arrests are now the highest number of arrests by the NYPD -- over 29,000 in 2015, 92 percent involving people of color, according to Robert Gangi, Director of the Police Reform Organizing Project.

Gangi says that most people jump the turnstile not for the thrill of it, but because the $5.50 cost of a round trip is a financial burden.

 Other large cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, and London, have fare discount programs.

Below is a graphic from their newly-launched publicity campaign.

A number of officials have signed on, including Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer as well as groups such as the Brooklyn Defender Services, the Brooklyn Movement Center, Fifth Avenue Committee, and more.


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The New Tesla Location Is Opening Friday in Red Hook

Red Hook Tesla. Photo by MK Metz

The new Tesla location opening Friday at 160 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook, Mashable reports.

McBrooklyn took a walk past the new store and service center over the weekend -- everything seems ready to go.

Want to take a vehicle for a spin? From Mashable: " You can take a look at the battery that makes up the entire base of the car and see the two motors that power the all-wheel-drive models. Not only that, but you can test drive a Model S right out of the store..."


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Robot Shop in Williamsburg; Community Gardens to Developers; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- A 15-year-old Brooklyn girl was charged Monday with murdering her mom and her mom’s boyfriend in Sheepshead Bay. [Daily News]

- Two robbers who viciously beat a 60-year-old man in an attack in Midwood last week are under arrest, but police are still looking for the getaway driver. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- New Williamsburg pop-up shop Geek Forest is a one-stop shop for robots. [Fox]

- There's a lot of opposition to the Bushwick 200 project. [Bedford and Bowery]

- At least 9 community gardens in Brooklyn and Manhattan will be turned over to developers. [City Limits]

- You're probably entitled to commuter benefits now that could save you up to $1,000 a year. [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Vigil for Vision Zero Tonight (Tuesday) in NYC, Day After Tragic Barclays Crash

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 Families for Safe Streets, an organization made up of relatives of people killed in traffic violence, is hosting a Vigil for Vision Zero tonight (Tuesday, July 14), 7 p.m. at Union Square Park North.

The vigil comes one day after a tragic crash on Flatbush, Fourth and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn, which killed a cyclist and injured six others, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.

The crash was caused by a a 37-year-old man who lost control of his SUV, leaving a blocks-long swath of death and destruction.

Brooklyn is the deadliest borough for pedestrians with 130 traffic deaths over three years, according to an analysis from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

More at:
Cyclist dies, six injured in grisly crash near Barclays Center in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]


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DUMBO's Snow-Clogged Streets Rated "Secondary" by NYC

PlowNYC Designation Map

Did you wonder why there was so much yucky gray snow on the streets of DUMBO long after other Brooklyn streets were plowed? Here's the answer: The PlowNYC snow removal designation map shows that NYC rates just about all of DUMBO's streets "secondary." (They are in blue; primary streets are shown in red.)

That means DUMBO gets plowed only after the primary streets are plowed.

So there, all you co-working, startup incubator venture-fund hustlers! Seeecoondaaary.

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Other Brooklyn stories:

- An in-depth look at the legal issues in the Akai Gurley shooting in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A proposal to construct a new building at the corner of Court and Congress streets didn’t fly at the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday morning. [Cobble Hill Blog via NYyimby]

- After viewing a video, charges have been dropped against a Sunset Park street vendor who was kicked in the back by a NYPD officer. [DNAinfo]

- Three out of the four bridges proposed for tolls of more than $5 connect to Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 800 Carnegie Mellon applicants were told they had been accepted for its master of science in computer science -- then were told it was just a mistake. [AP]

- Daily consumption of beetroot juice for four weeks significantly lowered blood pressure in patients. [WSJ]

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Ice Floes Disrupt NYC/ Brooklyn Ferry Service

A tug boat pushes a large vessel through ice floes on the East River. Photo by MK Metz

Ice floes in the East River are disrupting NYC's ferry service. The East River Ferry said Monday evening that they "are currently operating with a larger vessel for the safety of passengers, which does not allow us to keep our posted schedule. We are also experiencing sporadic terminal closures due to unpredictable ice flow. We expect this to continue for the balance of the day."

Due to the ice, the only accessible ferry locations on Monday were Pier 11, Greenpoint, Long Island City, and E. 34th St.

Before trying to catch the ferry on Tuesday, check out the East River Ferry website.

According to the Old Salt Blog, the East River froze at least a dozen times between 1780 and 1888.

For more photos of the frozen East River, see Gothamist's "Freezepocalypse" compilation.

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NBA All Star Game Artwork Wraps the NYC Subway Inside and Out

You may not have made it to one of the NBA All Star games this past weekend, but you can still appreciate the NBA-themed wraps on some of the city's subway trains.

Photos by MK Metz

This is the way the 4 train looked on Monday. The effect on the inside was impressive. You couldn't tell where the old subway paint ended and the NBA artwork began.

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Suspension of Alternate Side Parking in NYC, As Seen in American Sign Language

This American Sign Language message from the NYC Depts of Transportation and Sanitation -- telling us that Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended Monday (February 9th) to deal with snow -- has such a nice, friendly feel to it.

Forecasters urge New Yorkers to take mass transit on Monday, if possible, because the streets will be icy and slippery.

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Uber Says It Will Only Hike Prices 280 Percent in NYC During Blizzard of 2015

At a press conference on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned unnamed for-hire car services that price-gouging during emergencies was illegal.

"If you have any evidence of people taking advantage of this emergency to unfairly and illegally raise the prices of their rides, call 311 and report it," de Blasio said. "The Taxi and Limousine Commission will investigate.”

Uber told AP that "surge pricing will be capped at 2.8 times the normal fare" during the storm. That's not even triple, which is what Louie the Lip charges during emergencies.

Uber is waay better than Louie the Lip!

All roads and subways are closing at 11 p.m. Monday so get on home.

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Sky Gondolas to Connect Brooklyn Neighborhoods to Manhattan?

Remember when ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg was considering running aerial gondolas from Brooklyn to Governors Island?

The idea is back, this time with overhead gondolas running from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Williamsburg, and then from Williamsburg to the Lower East Side.

According to Crain's, the gondolas would eventually branch out to connect Dumbo to the South Street Seaport, and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Long Island City, Queens, to Roosevelt Island. (There, the network would meet up with the existing gondola route between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan.)

The idea was proposed Tuesday at the Massey Knakal Brooklyn Real Estate Summi.

Photo by Kris Arnold from New York, USA (Foggy Tram) [CC-BY-SA-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons


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Someone Hit by Q Train in Brooklyn Tuesday Morning, Service Interrupted

From the scanner:

According to 9-1-1 dispatch, someone is "under the train" at the Prospect Park Q train station in Brooklyn.

The call came in sometime after 4 a.m. Tuesday morning.

MTA has turned off the power to Track #1 south of Dekalb Avenue and north to Church.

UPDATE:
MTA issued the following guidance at 4:25 a.m.:

Due to a police investigation of a customer injury at Prospect Pk, the following service changes are in effect:

* Southbound Q Subway Line Icon trains are running on the N Subway Line Icon line from DeKalb Av to Coney Island-Stillwell Av.

* Northbound Q Subway Line Icon trains terminate at Kings Hwy.

* Southbound Q Subway Line Icon trains terminate at Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr.

* There is no Q Subway Line Icon train service between Kings Hwy and Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr in both directions.

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Boat Sinks, Marine Unit Rescue Person in Jamaica Bay

From the scanner:

* At 11:25 p.m., a Marine Unit was dispatched to follow up on a report of a misssing 25' boat north of the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge (formerly the North Channel Bridge) in Jamaica Bay.

Marine 3 reported no visual contact.

* At 11:34 p.m., contact was made with a boat on the east side of Broad Creek Marsh. Marine 3 reports, "Not sure if them."

* At 11:43 p.m., Marine 3 requested EMS from FDNY. Individual(s) taken to the Bungalo Bar.

* At 12:28, Marine 3 reports, "The boat sank prior to our arrival."


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This Is Why Henry Street in Cobble Hill Is Closed

Henry St. at Pacific St. Photo: MK Metz, McBrooklyn

A water line replacement job continues to keep cars off Henry Street  in Cobble Hill, from Atlantic Avenue to Kane Street.

According to the Cobble Hill Association, in order to safely replace it the water line, Natural Grid had to relocate an adjacent gas main currently too close to the water line for Department of Design and Construction to do the replacement work. This leads to concerns about the area's historic bluestone sidewalks, which National Grid is supposed to replace (but won't necessarily).

According to the Department of Design and Construction, the project will "install distribution water main extensions for new buildings" and "replace existing extensions, valves and hydrants." 

According to DOD. the project is supposed to wrap up by March 24. 

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