File this one under doomsday prep: as we announced previously, the MTA is shutting down the L train every single weekend in October between Eighth Avenue and Broadway Junction (the […]
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DOT Upgrading Williamsburg Bike Network This Summer
As L-Pocalypse draws near, the DOT sees bike lanes as one way to offset the crush of commuters on the G and J/M/Z lines. With that goal in mind, the […]
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Previewing, Pumping and Polluting – The Hook-up (8/10)
Happy Friday, Greenpoint! There has been much in the news this week about L-pocalypse, what with this weekend’s L closure, and the city’s cap on ride-share vehicles, but that’s not […]
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L-Pocalypse Pre-Show Countdown: L to close for 15 weekends prior to “official” shutdown
How is this weekend like Christmas? No L! In fact, the MTA announced on Saturday, The L train will not run between Manhattan and Brooklyn for 15 weekends between now […]
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“New L” aims to ease the Shutdown, Wants You to Know Their Service is #WorthIt
A new Brooklyn-based company calling itself “The New L” will be rolling into town in April 2019, offering a “guaranteed and reliable luxurious daily commute.” Luxurious? Daily? Commute? you may […]
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Printing, Planting and Pierogis — The Hook-up (2/22)
Happy Friday, Greenpoint! This week, Greenpoint’s own Polish-language weekly newspaper, Kurier Plus got a profile in the Columbia Journalism Review. Read about how the Polish paper is thriving! Speaking of […]
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Docking, Driving, Building and Borrowing — The Hook-up (6/8)
Happy Friday, Greenpoint! Now you’re really living — because the Newtown Creek Alliance has announced plans for the construction and installation of a second Living Dock within Newtown Creek. And […]
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Walk This Way: Floating Bridge Proposed Between Greenpoint and LIC
The good folks at Creme / Jun Aizaki Architecture and Design are hoping to bridge the gap between Greenpoint and Long Island City with a floating bridge connecting Manhattan and […]
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Punch and Pepper-Spray, Hardware and High School — The Hook-up (4/20)
Good morning, Greenpoint! It’s Friday, and time for the Hook-up. Sometimes, I think we should just rename this column “Another Week, the Same MTA,” since it seems that most of […]
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Can We Kickstart our way out of L-Pocalypse with Pontoon Bridge?
L-pocalypse looms just a year away, and the MTA doesn’t appear particularly interested in dealing with it, so New York residents have taken up the mantel of transit vigilantism, and […]