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The Voice of Common Sense and Conservative Values VOLUME 90 NUMBER 38
OCTOBER 4-10, 2019
WHAT’S NEWS
SEVENTH AVE. SUBWAY ENTRANCE REOPENS AFTER FIXUP
A secondary entrance at the Eighth Avenue N train station at Seventh Avenue and 62nd Street that was closed for several months to undergo renovations was recently reopened to great fanfare. The station entrance renovation was part of a massive, $395.7 million project to modernize nine subway stations along the N Sea Beach line, according to an MTA spokesperson. The work at all of the targeted stations included installing improved platforms and overpasses, building new stairways and handrails, repairs to canopies and columns, painting and rehabilitating historic station entrances and fare control areas, enhancing safety features, and upgrading communication systems. For more on this story, see page 4.
PARKING PROBLEM: ILLEGALLY PARKED TRUCKS MONOPOLIZE SPACE ALONG DYKER PARK
Illegally parked 18-wheelers and RVs have made it nearly impossible to find parking spots adjacent to Ben Vitale Field, across from Poly Prep Day Country School and in front of the Brooklyn VA Hospital. While this has been going on for decades, City Councilmember Justin Brannan has been actively working with the 68th Precinct and trying to find alternative solutions to prevent the trucks from violating the law. “It’s not only a public safety and quality of life issue but it’s about fairness. If you or I park illegally, we will get a ticket or get towed. Meanwhile, you have motorhomes, RVs, campers and tractor-trailers that seem to park along this corridor with impunity,” Brannan told this paper. For more on this story, see page 4.
HEAT ISSUES AT BROOKLYN JAIL NOT CAUSED BY FIRE OR POWER OUTAGES: INVESTIGATORS
BROOKLYNITES LEARN WHERE WIND WILL TAKE THEM
Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind, two offshore wind turbine projects that are currently underway, were the subject of a recent open house hosted by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) at Sims Municipal Recycling in Sunset Park. The initiatives support Governor Andrew Cuomo’s goal to develop 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035 and establish a carbon-free electricity sector by 2040. The projects are slated to produce 1,696 megawatts of offshore wind energy, over 1,600 jobs and $3.2 billion in economic activity. For more on this story, see page 4
BRAVO TO THEM! Local volunteer ambulance group honors stalwarts Chip Cafiero, former Sen. Marty Golden SEE PAGE 2
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The fire and partial power outage in January at Brooklyn’s federal jail did not cause the heat failures that left incarcerated people in the cold for weeks, a new report from the Office of the Inspector General found. The winter heat outages at Sunset Park’s Metropolitan Detention Center led to massive protests outside the facility — with local and national politicians descending on the location to demand answers about the lack of heat. The inspector general’s report, however, found that “long-standing temperature regulation issues” — not fire or power outages — led to temperatures dropping below the desired 68 degrees at the federal jail. For more on this story, go to brooklynreporter.com.