Transportation – Brooklyn Bugle

MTA’s Subway ‘Hurricane Sandy Recovery Map’

October 31, 2012

Now this is genius… MTA has released an up to-the-minute map that shows which subway lines will be operating beginning Thursday, November 1. No lines are making stops below 42nd Street, while, as you’ll also see, unfortunately, there is no service yet connecting Brooklyn Heights with Manhattan. Info about transit options connecting buses from Jay Street to NYC are in the post below here. Hold onto this link: The map will be updated daily as more subway lines are deemed safe and available for public access.

See full map below, along with a line-by-line subway & bus update from Montague Street BID. (Just added a nifty widget from the MTA, after the jump.)

Brooklyn subway service will be as follows:
2 — No service in Brooklyn
3 — No service in Brooklyn
4 — Borough Hall-New Lots Av (Local)
5 — Atlantic Av/Barclays Center-Flatbush Av (Express)
A — Jay St/MetroTech-Lefferts Blvd (Local)
B — No Service
C — No Service (See A service above)
D — Atlantic Av/Barclays Center-Bay Pkwy (Express Pacific – 36 St)
F — Jay St/MetroTech-Av X (Local)
G — No Service
L — Broadway Junction-Rockaway Pkwy (Local)
M — Myrtle Av/Broadway-Metropolitan Av (Shuttle)
Q — No Service
R — Jay St/MetroTech-95 St (Local)
S Franklin Avenue Shuttle — No Service
S Rockaway Park Shuttle — No Service

Shuttle buses:
All buses run north on 3rd Av and south on Lexington Ave.
Atlantic Ave/Barclays Center to 57 St/Lexington Ave via Manhattan Bridge
Jay St/MetroTech to 57 St/Lexington Ave via Manhattan Bridge
Hewes St to 57 St/Lexington Ave via Williamsburg Bridge

Try this handy widget from the MTA. – Homer

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/50874

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Update on Transit Options Thursday

October 31, 2012

Shuttle bus service to/from Manhattan: this will operate between Jay Street/Metro tech and 57th Street/Lexington Avenue via the Manhattan Bridge. No info yet on hours of operation/schedules.

Subway service into Brooklyn: There will be subway service between some local stations and destinations within Brooklyn. 4 trains will run between Borough Hall and New Lots Avenue, making all local stops. To get to Flatbush, change to a 5 train at Atlantic Avenue/Barclays Center. A trains will run between Jay Street and Lefferts Boulevard. F trains will run between Jay Street and Avenue X. R trains will run between Jay Street and 95th Street. There will be no service at Clark Street, Court Street, High Street, or York Street, and no G train service.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/50847

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Flooded Subway Tunnels Could Disrupt Service For Long Period

October 30, 2012

Salt water inundation of subway tunnels between Brooklyn and Manhattan, which could include the 2/3, 4/5, A/C, F, and N/R lines serving Borough Hall, Clark Street, High Street, Jay Street-Metro Tech, York Street, and Court Street, could suspend service on those lines for an as yet undetermined period of time, according to this CBS News article. We’ll keep you posted on developments.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/50323

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Manhattan-Bound Brooklyn Bridge Lanes Closed This Weekend and Next

October 5, 2012

Rehabilitation work on the Brooklyn Bridge necessitates closing the Manhattan bound lanes from 11:59 Friday to 6:00 a.m. Monday this (October 5-8) and next (October 12-15) weekend, according to information just received from Notify NYC. Traffic will be redirected to the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/48896

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Manhattan Bound Brooklyn Bridge Lanes Closed This Weekend and Next

October 5, 2012

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/48896

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Atlantic Avenue BID Hopes To Make BQE Underpass Inviting To BBP Visitors

August 22, 2012

The Atlantic Avenue BID is applying for a city grant with the intention to make the underpass beneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway more inviting to pedestrians—and to drive more foot traffic between the businesses along Atlantic Avenue and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

According to DNAInfo.com,
the BQE currently creates a divide between Brooklyn Bridge Park and the shopping strip on Atlantic Avenue. Josef Szende, executive director of the Atlantic Avenue BID believes that because of a lack of signage, pedestrians at either location have little knowledge “that there are opportunities on either side of the tunnel.”

Szende adds, “The underside of the BQE is an unpleasant place to be or to walk through. We want pedestrians to feel there’s something interesting or interactive all the way down Atlantic Avenue to Brooklyn Bridge Park.”

To gain funding and support, the Atlantic Avenue BID is applying for an NYC Department of Small Business Services BID Challenge Grant, which would provide $75,000 toward the project. Earlier this month, the BID met with urban designers of Planning Corps, a volunteer group helping non-profits plan and resolve design issues, and to brainstorm ways to make the tunnel under the BQE more interactive, appealing and useful to pedestrians passing through.

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‘Hail No’: Initiative To Bring Livery Cabs To The Boroughs Is A Bust (For Now)

August 18, 2012

In a rare defeat for NYC Mayor Bloomberg and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ruled Friday that the popular initiative to allow 18,000 livery cabs to take street hails from Manhattan to the outer boroughs and the upper reaches of the city is a no go. No doubt, this should have residents of Brooklyn Heights seeing red, since it can be next to impossible to convince yellow taxis to cross the Brooklyn Bridge late at night.

The decision by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron is also sour news for the city, which would lose $1 billion in revenue from 2,000 new medallion sales. NYC’s corporation counsel Michael Cardozo said he will immediately appeal the decision, according to The Wall Street Journal, saying city officials are “confident the appellate court will uphold” the law.

Taxi & Limousine Commissioner and Brooklyn Heights resident David Yassky also vowed to fight: “The court’s decision is a great loss to millions of New Yorkers outside of Manhattan, as well as for professional livery drivers whose ability to feed their families by providing a popular service their communities want and deserve is in jeopardy.”

The New York Daily News explains that earlier this summer, Engoron blocked the Bloomberg administration from selling the yellow medallions and taking applications for livery hail licenses after lobbyists for the yellow cab industry came up with the argument that the plan was illegal.

The judge determined that yellow cabbies would “suffer irreparable harm” if the plan were put into effect. Michael Woloz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, told WJS, “Thousands of individual owner-drivers and hundreds of small-business owners in both the taxi and livery industries are breathing a sigh of relief.”

Mind you, this is the same industry that just celebrated a whopping 17% fare hike. After Labor Day, the starting rate will remain $2.50, but the meter will climb 50 cents instead of 40 with every click, after one-fifth of a mile or 60 seconds. The flat rate from Manhattan to Kennedy Airport will climb by $7, to $52, and the surcharge from the city to Newark will escalate from $15 to $17.50.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46017

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Brooklyn Heights ‘Signs’ Off On DOT’s Mixed-Case Lettering Mandate

August 16, 2012

Street signs in Brooklyn Heights will soon be following the letter of the law. The Federal Highway Administration has mandated that your tax dollars be spent on replacing 250,000 capital-letter street signs in New York City with mixed-case—specifically utilizing a condensed version of the Clearview typeface (licensed as ClearviewHwy).

So far, about 11,000 street name signs have been replaced around NYC’s five boroughs to meet national standards in typography and surface reflectivity, according to The New York Times—including some along Brooklyn Heights’ Montague Street. Brown historical signs will maintain their color.

Clearview was created in the 1990s by designers Donald Meeker and James Montalbano, working with the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. “With its crisp, clean design, Clearview represents exactly what its name suggests,” says city transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “Whether through signs, markings or sidewalks, we’re bringing clarity and simplicity to street design.”

Developer Montalbano recalls about two years ago crossing the East River from Brooklyn—where he lives—coming off the Brooklyn Bridge and seeing a sign for “Chinatown” with an arrow in Clearview. About a month ago, he also noticed Clearview signs on Montague Street in the Heights. “It’s very exciting,” he told NY Times. “We’ve been working on this project for a very long time.”

A number of the new signs replace those scheduled for routine maintenance, as well as when streets are under repair or reconstruction. “But sometimes, the new signs appear to have replaced perfectly serviceable older signs with all-uppercase lettering,” the Times notes, which has meant of tirade of criticism directed toward the Highway Administration, an agency of the federal Department of Transportation. As a result, DOT has since eased or eliminated some 46 deadlines and/or mandates for dutiful compliance.

(Graphic/New York Times)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/45877

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Massive Mess: 111-115 Montague Street Sidewalk Will Be In Tatters For 3 Months

August 14, 2012

While the massive hole in front of 200 Hicks Street and Montague continues to get wider, deeper and messier, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Beginning this week, the entire sidewalk from the Chinese Hand Laundry and McCurdy Real Estate at 111 Montague up to Subway sandwiches at 115—which also encompasses retailers Peerless Shoe Repair and Connecticut Muffin—will be torn to bits.

The superintendent for the Berkeley and Grosvenor apartment buildings at 111 & 115 Montague tells BHB that infrastructure work below the sidewalk will endure for a minimum of three months. Oh, joy!

(Photos: Chuck Taylor) At top, the mess at 200 Hicks. Below, a last look at the sidewalk on Montague along the impacted area.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/45728

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