The city held its first public hearing on the planned expansion of a Brooklyn jail Thursday night, with many community members giving emotional testimony about their own detention on Rikers Island and the moral imperative to shut down the scandal-ridden jail complex. The community hearing, which kicked off the jail’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure […]
Proposed rezoning measures for a high-rise development on the site of a popular Clinton Hill bar, Hot Bird, moved forward in the City Council on Tuesday. The Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises unanimously approved the rezoning for 809 Atlantic Ave., where Jeffrey Gershon’s Hope Street Capital plans to build a 29-story apartment tower. Part of […]
The first commercial self-driving vehicles in New York are coming to the Brooklyn Navy Yard this spring. The cars, provided by Optimus Ride, a Boston-based self-driving vehicle technology company, will operate as a loop shuttle service connecting NYC Ferry passengers to the Cumberland Gate at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Cumberland Street. “The Navy […]