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MTA to cut stops along B38 bus
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Transit officials will ax
stops and run longer buses
along the B38 through Brooklyn
and Queens in an effort
to streamline service along
the cross-borough route beginning
Sept. 2.
The transit agency plans to
remove four stops along the
Brooklyn portion of the route
— which includes Bushwick,
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton
Hill, Fort Greene, and Downtown
— in addition to five
stops in Queens starting Labor
Day, according to a notice
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority sent out
to Community Board 2 on
Aug. 13.
In Brooklyn, the Transit
Authority will eliminate:
• Downtown-bound Ashland
Place stops at DeKalb
Avenue
• Queens-bound Kossuth
Place stops near Bushwick
Avenue
• Downtown-bound Bushwick
Avenue stops at DeKalb
Avenue
• Queens- and Downtown-
Stop Adjustment
Stop Elimination
No Change
The B38 bus will make nine less stops in Brooklyn and Queens when the Metropolitan
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Transportation Authority rolls out longer articulated buses on teh route
starting Labor Day.
bound stops at Cypress and
DeKalb avenues
On the bright side, the
route will benefit from longer,
60-foot busses capable
of traveling at higher speeds
and holding an additional 20
passengers each.
To accommodate the bigger
busses, the MTA will lengthen
13 stops in Brooklyn, which
will not block driveways,
bike lanes, or intersections,
according to Transit Authority
spokeswoman Amanda
Kwan, who directed questions
regarding loss of parking
to the city’s Department
of Transportation.
“Longer buses require extending
bus stops so that the
back of the bus does not interfere
with traffic at intersections
or right turn lanes,
block driveways or bike lanes,
or create safety hazards for
customers, other motorists or
pedestrians,” said Kwan.
A city transit spokeswoman,
Alana Morales, could
not immediately comment regarding
loss of parking.
The reductions are part of
the Authority’s scheme to cut
service along 23 bus routes
citywide to save $7 million in
operating costs, according to
internal documents released
last month .
By removing stops, transit
officials hope to make the city’s
bus system — the slowest of
any major city in the nation —
run faster and more reliably, a
policy the agency piloted in a
redesign of the Staten Island
network last year.
“Our customers have
called on us to increase bus
speeds, and part of the solution
is to re-examine our bus
stop spacing, which is much
closer than peer transit systems,”
said Kwan.
The agency plans to launch
a similar makeover for Kings
County’s bus network in the
coming months, the first on
a borough-wide scale in decades,
a spokeswoman previously
told this paper.
“We welcome customer
feedback as we approach
our planned redesign of the
entire Brooklyn bus network
in the coming months when
we will re-examine the route
network for the first time in
decades,” Kwan said.
This story was updated to
include comment by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
on Aug. 19.
Affordable housing lottery in Clinton Hill
By Craig Hubert
for Brooklyn Paper
Last week, an affordable
housing lottery opened for
114 newly constructed units
in two separate nine-story
buildings. One is located at
909 Atlantic Ave., the other
at 1043 Fulton St. Together,
according to the lottery listing,
they are called the Athena
Apartments.
The buildings are part
of the controversial redevelopment
of the Cadman
Plaza Library in Brooklyn
Heights, where the developer,
Hudson Companies,
struck a deal to build affordable
housing at two off-site
locations in Clinton Hill.
There are 55 studios,
32 one-bedroom units, 22
two-bedroom units and
five three-bedroom units.
Monthly rents start at $896
program required for rezoned
properties, the lottery
is set at an area median
income range of 60 percent
for 23 of the units, 80 percent
for 60 of the units and 130
percent for the remaining
31 units. Eligible incomes
range between $32,675 and
$172,120 for households of
one to seven people.
According to building
permits, there are a total of
78 units in the Atlantic Avenue
building and 37 units in
the Fulton Street building.
That leaves one additional
unit that could be for a building
superintendent.
There will be outdoor
recreation spaces at the
two buildings, as well
as fitness rooms for tenants,
construction permits
show. The building on Fulton
Street will have retail
space on the ground f loor,
while the Atlantic Avenue
building will not.
Jonathan Marvel, who designed
the under-construction
Brooklyn Heights library
and condo tower at 1
Clinton St., is listed as the
architect of both affordable
buildings.
His firm, Marvel Architects,
is responsible for a
number of prominent designs
in the borough, including
St. Ann’s Warehouse,
Pierhouse in Brooklyn
Bridge Park and the 1.7-acre
Naval Cemetery Memorial
Landscape in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
Applications for the affordable
housing lottery
must be submitted by October
16, 2019. Apply through
NYC Housing Connect . To
learn more about how to apply
for affordable housing,
read Brownstoner’s guide .
Rendering by Marvel Architects
An affordable housing lottery opened for 114 new
units in two separate Clinton Hill buildings.
and top out at $2,952.
A question we always
ask: is this really affordable?
Here, the answer is
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THERE IS HOPE
This autobiography from Bridge-Logos
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
After 25 years battling a paralyzing
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later became director of the Brooklyn
Men's program, followed by 10 years of
service on staff at Faith Fellowship
Ministries World Outreach Center (now
Epic Church in New Jersey). Today
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