By Wil Yakowicz
New York State Department of Transportation
Greenpoint: Costs for a new Kosciuszko Bridge are skyrocketing. But look at what we’ll get!
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By Jordan Galloway
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Transit: The weekend shuttle bus system that has been the bane of F-train riders for the past three weekends, is over — for now.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: But is a ferry next? That’s unclear.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Aaron Greenhood
Transit: The F train is slower, dirtier and less reliable than other lines in the subway system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority finally admitted in a bombshell report released on Friday.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Carroll Gardens: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority derailed its own plan to shut down a manned token booth at the President Street entrance to the Carroll Street F-train station.
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By Ben Muessig, Jared Foretek and Shannon Geis
By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Election: One candidate announced in advance that he’d show up this morning — the other just showed up. Isn’t this subway system big enough for the both of them?
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Election: City Council candidate John Heyer has found an issue that he hopes to ride all the way to office.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Transit: The MTA wants to improve service on this Red Hook–Queens bus line by cutting service in half.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Transit: Happy sails — starting this weekend, there will be free ferry service to Governors Island every Saturday and Sunday through Labor Day.
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By Ben Muessig
Transit: Why was the Q train delayed from beginning its run from Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island on Wednesday night? This shocking video, forwarded by our reader Nicky Huddy, shows why.
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By Thomas Nocera
Transit: Now we know what the “R” and the “N” stands for in the names of two of Brooklyn’s key subway lines: “Rancid” and “Nasty.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Transit: We all know that something is wrong with the F train — but soon we’re going to know exactly what.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Transit: Ferry service returns. And there was much (or, at least some) rejoicing!
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Transit: Ferry service returns. And there was much (or, at least some) rejoicing!
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming thinks the mess in the Gowanus Canal has two new sources.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming has to give the MTA some credit, albeit temporarily.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Mike McLaughlin
Transit: The G train will be extended to Church Avenue in July, creating the first direct link between trendy Williamsburg and posh Park Slope.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Mean Streets: The so-called Avenue of Death and Destruction is still living up to at least part of its name.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Evan Gardner
Mean Streets: A decades-long project to repair a ready-to-collapse section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway finally begins tomorrow night.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Michael Short
Bay Ridge: The wheels on Bay Ridge’s B4 bus are going round and round — and 78th Street residents are going crazy.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Bess Adler
DUMBO: The city has restored a key link between East DUMBO and West DUMBO, uniting the divided neighborhood for the first time in generations.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Kate Emerson
Greenpoint: Replacing Greenpoint’s decaying Kosciuszko Bridge might make the roadway safer for drivers, but reconstructing the overpass could also displace more than a dozen local businesses from the shadow of the span.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Our cartoonist, Cristian Fleming, weighs in on the Museum’s financial problems.
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By Ben Muessig
Dyker Heights: Subways repairs to the dilapidated D and M lines are back on track, thanks to $242 million in federal stimulus money that will be routed towards the decrepit stations.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Our cartoonist, Cristian Fleming, sees some hypocrisy in the federal move to declare the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site.
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By Ben Muessig
Park Slope: On Flatbush Avenue, the stairway to heaven might actually lead underground.
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Motorists who park their cars on the sidewalks of Bay Ridge are driving Jean Ryan mad.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming, like everyone else, wishes the F train was better.
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By Aisha Gawad
Transit: Reports of the F train’s improvement were, alas, greatly exaggerated.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming sees a mayoral monarch in Mike Bloomberg.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Transit: Federal stimulus money is rolling towards the city, and Mayor Bloomberg wants to use the cash to put 11 Brooklyn infrastructure projects in motion.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Someone up there must like Gersh, because over the weekend, an anonymous Brooklyn Paper fan donated our famous bike-riding editor a new bike.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Transit: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board calls for no increases in revenue for the inept MTA until the transit agency is reformed.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming sees only danger ahead for subway and bus riders.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: This newspaper’s famously bike-riding editor has had yet another bike stolen — the second time in eight months that his wheels have been swiped.
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By Dustin Seplow
Mean Streets: The people have spoken — and they want two-way streets to fix the mess of Grand Army Plaza and the dangerous “speedways” of Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West.
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Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board calls for no increases in revenue for the inept MTA until the transit agency is reformed.
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By Ben Muessig
Transit: Politicians, transportation activists — and a bagpipe player — buried the M and R train in a pre-emptive funeral service for the lines, which face severe service cuts under the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s proposed “Doomsday Budget.”
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Get this: the chairwoman of a key North Brooklyn transportation panel was booted from her position because she attempted to correct a factual inaccuracy in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (of all places).
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch
Red Hook: Ikea has again slashed its free ferry and shuttle bus service, citing declining use of the complimentary transit by shoppers to its Red Hook megastore.
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By Sarah Portlock and Zeke Faux
Transit: Buried deep in the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s proposed budget cuts are suggestions to close part-time and several full-time service booths — a move that could save the $10.8-billion agency millions, but could also compromise safety of its passengers by depriving riders of another set of eyes and ears late at night.
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Fasten your seatbelts, Williamsburg — next week’s community board meeting is going to be a “showdown” over the stunning Christmas Eve dismissal of the chairwoman of the transportation committee, who was deposed because of her vocal support for a pair of controversial Kent Avenue bike lanes.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Opponents of a pair of controversial bike lanes on Kent Avenue have been using school buses to block the street in an act of automotive disobedience — and now they’re publicizing their plans with a billboard blaming the resulting traffic jams on cyclists.
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