This could get interesting. A long post on Streets Blog is deeply critical of Assem. Hakeem Jeffries involvement in the issue. (The rally is at 6:30PM at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church.) Streets Blog writes: “…this move reeks of cynical pandering from someone who had ample opportunity to stand up for transit riders mere weeks ago, […]

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This interesting Williamsburg bicycle comes from Wythe Avenue on the South Side. It is only partly deconstructed, however.

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The G Train may have problems, but it does have some friends and people that really want to see service improvements. We got an email from Assem. Hakeem Jeffries office about a rally he is organizing next week to call for service improvements on the G. It says in part: In partnership with a number […]

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There is irony and, then, there is irony. That there is a constituency to keep alternate side of the street parking regulations in place in Park Slope rather than temporarily suspending them is irony. Now that the rush has worn off a suspension of anywhere from three weeks to three months, there appears to be […]

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We had been wondering when the city would be changing the alternate side parking regulations in Community Board 6 to reduce the restricted parking intervals from 3 hours to 90 minutes. Now we know. They will start putting up new signs next week, and as a result, alternate side of the street parking in the […]

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We all know intersections in Brooklyn where one risks one’s life challenging people who might be very nice individuals if encountered on foot, but who would just as soon make you one with the pavement as let you walk in front of them once they’re behind the wheel. One such spots is Parkside and Ocean […]

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The new ferry service from Rockaway to Manhattan via Sunset Park starts today (on a cold, rainy day). “I’m going to withhold judgment until I hear how the ferry actually works out with timing and logistics. I’m tempted to take my stroller-pushing self onto the early ferry just to check it out. Maybe on a […]

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The Hamilton Avenue Bridge is being partly shut down at night for more work. Per an email from Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman: “I thought you might be interested in the following announcement from the Department of Transportation…Reconstruction of the Hamilton Avenue Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Two Week Partial Bridge Closure: Starting […]

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The city announced yesterday that it is starting a ferry route from the Rockaways to Lower Manhattan next week that will make a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. It will be operated by New York Water Taxi, which will also resume service on its East River routes in July. Service to […]

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Often we feature deconstructed bikes, of which there are many around Williamsburg. Sometimes when a vehicle catches our eye, we’ll feature it too. This one, on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg certainly got our attention.

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The city is announcing a new subsidized ferry service today that will run from the Rockaways to Lower Manhattan with a revived stop in Sunset Park. It’s part of the a “5-Borough ferry service initiative of PlaNYC 2030.” This service will include a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where the […]

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This is a rendering of the entrance to the Smith-9th Street station, which is slated to be closed for more than a year for renovations. A redone station is supposed to reopen in 2011, but we haven’t seen any recent timetables, so it’s unclear if the original estimate is accurate any longer. We found this […]

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It is red. It is reduced to its bare essense, and it is in Williamsburg.

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What can be simpler and more elegant than a bicycle reduced to a single tire? Or, is it a tire locked to a sign post for safe keeping while the bicycle resides elsewhere? In any case, it comes from the Kingdom of Trashed Bikes, Williamsburg.

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We’ve been featuring a lot of busted up and stripped bike, but we found this beauty parked on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope of all places and felt compelled to feature it.

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We’re used to seeing trashed bike and deconstructed ones as well as ones for sale, but here’s a freebie we found in Williamsburg on N. 5 Street.

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It was parked on N. 6 Street in Williamsburg when we found it. We have no idea.

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This bike on McGuinness Boulevard has clearly seen better days. It is one of the hundreds around Greenpoint and Williamsburg in various states of deconstruction or bending and come from the digital camera of Miss Heather.

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“God. Oh my God. It’s 8:45 and I’m pacing around like a crazy person on the subway platform again. The G Train, man. The fucking G train. It’s gone from mild annoyance to genuine outrage to pure, paranoid obsession. Everything, I mean everything, wrong with my life can be traced back to this train.”–Gawker

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In case you care about the G Train and didn’t make it to last week’s City Council Meeting, here’s another chance to speak your mind. New York City Transit President Howard Roberts will be appearing at a forum tomorrow, April 16, from 5PM-7PM. It’s the NYC Transit Riders Council, 2008 President’s Forum on Subways. It […]

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There were many comments left yesterday on our post about the parking sign outside PS 38 in Boerum Hill that was mysteriously altered to expand the parking off-limits to residents during school hours. Residents say a school employee tampered with the sign to reserve an entire block for school employees and, then, said that those […]

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Here’s one way to alter parking regulations without going through the cumbersome Dept. of Transportation procedure: change the signs yourself. This, apparently, is what an enterprise staff member at PS 38 in Boerum Hill has done, at least, according to some Boerum Hill residents. Per the Boerum Hill email list: Arrived home tonight to discover […]

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The Windsor Terrace Alliance posted pics of the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident (no injuries) on Prospect Park SW in Windsor Terrace yesterday around 12:30 in the morning. They write: Fortunately, no one was injured but residents have had many complaints about this street, from speeding cars and motorcycles to excessive truck noise. Something must […]

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Every now and then, we like to post a photo of one of Brooklyn’s abandoned or deconstructed bicycles. Many of them come from Williamsburg, which seems to have more of them than most neighborhoods.

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Change is coming. A reader sent us an email yesterday afternoon with the subject line “B61 Shilling for Ikea” to let us know that the B61 no longer says that it runs to Van Brunt Street. Our reader wrote: Yesterday I noticed that the B61 now says “RED HOOK – IKEA TERMINAL” instead of VAN […]

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