Last week, I lay on a freight train tunnel running below East New York, “impaled” by an iron pipe. Laying on my back in the black tunnel, it all felt real. Noises from far down the shaft echoed eerily, then faded. Members of FDNY’s Special Operations Task Force were in training for a full-scale disaster […]
And so it begins. Far from the worlds of Williamsburg and Union Square, commuters who live near Broadway Junction are preparing for the start of the L-train slowdown. Starting Friday night, L trains will run every 20 minutes between Manhattan and Brooklyn and every 10 minutes in Brooklyn all nights and on the weekends, while […]
A massive 407-acre park in East New York, the third largest in Brooklyn and the largest state park in New York City, will receive $20 million from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to build green space, community gardens and recreational centers. The new Shirley Chisholm State Park, named after the trailblazing former Brooklyn U.S. representative, is expected […]