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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MARCH 15, 2020
LOADING ZONES IN P’SLOPE
City to give neighborhood loading zones a shot
Couple dead in apparent murder-suicide in East New York
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BY BEN VERDE
The Department
of Transportation is
seeking to roll out its
“neighborhood loading
zones” program in Park
Slope after pushback
from motorists forced
the agency to yank the
zones in Clinton Hill
last summer.
The plan involves
axing a dozen parking
spots along Second and
Third Streets between
Fourth and Eighth Avenues,
giving trucks a
spot to pull into while
also supplying residential
deliveries and rideshare
vehicles a place to
drop off safely, instead
of double parking or
idling in bike lanes.
The plan was passed
unanimously by Community
Board 6’s transportation
committee on March
6. The chair of the committee,
Eric McClure,
says the neighborhood
is suffering under the
weight of increased truck
traffi c, and that anything
that will reduce congestion
is welcome.
“Everyone has seen
firsthand the proliferation
of deliveries in the
community, whether
it’s the uptick in people
shopping online or
buying groceries from
Fresh Direct, the number
of delivery trucks in
Community Board 6 has
grown seemingly exponentially
in the past two
years,” McClure said.
The program is already
in effect in several
neighborhoods
across the city including
Williamsburg, but
the last time the agency
tried to bring the program
to nearby Clinton
Hill, they were met with
overwhelming pushback
from residents who
claimed DOT switched
the
use of the spots overnight
and towed cars
that had been parked
legally before
the zones
were implemented.
To prevent this, Community
Board 6 included
in its approval a condition
that the department
coordinate a robust outreach
program in cooperation
with the board,
which will include distributing
flyers and
postcards to the affected
residential blocks.
Despite the planned
outreach, McClure
says he still anticipates
plenty of bellyaching
from Park Slope motorists
about the prospect
of losing free parking,
even if the number of
spots lost is only a drop
in the bucket.
“I like to refer to it as
the third rail of Brooklyn
politics,” he said of
parking. “We’re talking
about a five-block
stretch where you’re
probably looking at a total
of 350 to 450 parking
spaces in total and they
are going to take fewer
than a dozen on either
of those stretches.”
Photo by Kevin Duggan
BY TODD MAISEL
A man and a woman
are dead after what police
believe was a murdersuicide
took place in East
New York on March 9.
The victims — husband
and wife Andre and
Petula Myrtil — were
found slumped over in the
front seats of a 2019 BMW
SUV parked on Louisiana
Avenue not far from
Twin Pines Lane near the
Spring Creek Preserve.
Cops said the shooting
occurred just after 9:20
am. Spring Creek security
responded fi rst and
found the two victims
with all four windows of
the car blown out by the
bullets.
Responding paramedics
rushed the victims
to Brookdale University
Medical Center. The
woman, age 39, suffered
four gunshot wounds and
was pronounced dead.
The man, 49, was listed in
critical condition with a
single gunshot wound to
his head. He later died.
Police offi cials reported
that offi cers discovered
a fi rearm used
in the shooting inside the
vehicle.
The preliminary investigation
indicated
that the shooting may
have been a domestic incident.
Witnesses reported
that they heard gunshots
from a nearby housing
development and rushed
over to see the car windows
blown out. The preliminary
investigation
revealed that the male
may have shot the female
inside the car. Two people were shot in a BMW on Louisiana Avenue near Twin Pines Lanes. Photo by Todd Maisel