Welcome to the Labor Day weekend Greenpointers! This is the perfect weekend to enjoy the outdoors before the summer fades. Looking for what’s happening this weekend? on Saturday, there’s a pollinator planting with the Newtown Creek Alliance amd an impromptu sausage cookout at Archesrtatus, and for the kids a sing-a-long in Domino Park on Sunday morning. Catch up on this week’s headlines:
- Help Greenpoint teachers #ClearTheList of school supplies ahead of the school year. (Greenpointers)
- The second span of the $873 million Kosciuszko Bridge is now open with four lanes of Brooklyn-bound traffic and bike and pedestrian lanes. (Greenpointers)
- The lack Of bike lanes leading to Kosciuszko Bridge is ‘Utterly Baffling,’ says Comptroller Stringer (Gothamist) (NY Post)
- The estimated L train repairs costs have doubled. (THE CITY)
- Greenpointer Victoria Cambranes is running to represent City Council District 33. (Brooklyn Eagle)
- Residents of 196 Huron Street claim their landlord is illegally pushing out stabilized tenants. (NY1)
- Gov Cuomo didn’t address bike safety while touting that Kosciuszko Bridge speeds are now “65 % faster.” (Curbed)
- The Newtown Creek Alliance and Hunters Point Parks Conservancy will unveil a new education program for Queens students. (LIC Post)
- Attacks against Orthodox Jewish people in Williamsburg echoed in Crown Heights and Borough Park (NY Magazine)
- Controversial chocolatiers Mast Brothers have exited Williamsburg, for now (Eater)
- The city fixed the slippery “Space Jam” court. (Brooklyn Paper)
- Check out new renderings for 340 Metropolitan Ave. (YIMBY)