April 21, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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MTA bus route redux gets rolling
All Queens lines affected; board leaders express concern at Boro Hall meet
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BY MARK HALLUM
New York City Transit
officials addressed community
board chairs from across
Queens on April 15 about the
effort to revamp bus routes
throughout the borough
in a modernization effort
designed to increase ridership
and reliability.
The officials called the effort
a “blank-slate approach” which
will fully assess all possible
routes to meet current and
future travel patterns as part
of NYC Transit President Andy
Byford’s Fast Forward plan.
“It’s the largest bus network
in North America, we operate
over 5,700 buses over 300 routes.
The problem is most of those
routes have devolved simply
from the old trolley network and
as New York has changed, as our
world has changed, we haven’t
changed with it,” said Darryl
Irick, the president of MTA Bus
Operations. “We felt that this
was an appropriate time to hit
the reboot button, look at the
entire thing fresh.”
One example of this would
be the Q60 bus, which runs
primarily along Queens
Boulevard from Jamaica to
midtown Manhattan. The route’s
southern terminus at Jamaica
Avenue once had a trolley barn
where the bus line now ends.
CB6 Chair Joe Hennessy,
however, was not enamored by
the idea of shaking up the bus
network, claiming the moving
a bus stop even one block
could have profound impacts
on the lives of seniors with
mobility issues.
Eugene Kelty, chair of CB7,
said he would like to see the
concerns of motorists included
in the upcoming process to reorganize
the bus network as
opposed to only taking into
account the needs of riders.
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Three Queens men were
arrested on Sunday shortly after
they broke into a Whitestone
home and took off with power
tools, law enforcement sources
said on April 16.
According to authorities,
at 4:23 a.m. on April 14, it was
reported that three men entered a
48-year-old woman’s home located
in the vicinity of 146th Street and
23rd Avenue through the side
entrance. Once inside, the crooks
went into the basement and
took various construction tools.
The suspects then fled the
scene and the victim called 911.
The victim was not injured as a
result of the incident.
Officers from the 109th
Precinct‘s Anti-Crime team
arrived at the scene and canvassed
the neighborhood for the burglars,
who were ultimately found in the
vicinity of Lee Street and 23rd
Avenue, and apprehended them.
The suspects were identified
as 23-year-old Theofanis Tsolakis,
of Astoria, 22-year-old Yonatan
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Cops are looking for a man who fled the
scene after hitting a woman with his bike on
a Ridgewood street.
According to police, at 6 p.m. on April 10,
BY MAX PARROTT
Queens City Councilman
Rory Lancman condemned
the Glendale Middle Village
Coalition’s protest on April
13 after QNS reported that
the protesters marched
outside the Long Island
synagogue of the man who
owns a defunct Glendale
factory being eyed as
either a public school or
homeless shelter.
“Protesting outside
a person’s synagogue on
the Sabbath because they
might not develop their
private property the way
you want is a grotesque
act of anti-Semitism
and fully deserves our
unqualified condemnation.
The so-called ‘Glendale
Middle Village Coalition’
Protesters outside Temple Or members should be
Elohim in Jericho, Long Island.
Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
Pol says protesters went too far
Nowhere to
go for trio
of burglars
Cops seek bicyclist for
Ridgewood hit-and-run
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