8 JANUARY 10, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Recycle your
e-waste in
Ridgewood
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
Residents who received new
electronics during the holiday
season can properly
dispose of their old and unwanted
electronics at an e-waste recycling
event in Ridgewood.
State Senator Joseph Addabbo
is partnering with the Lower East
Side Ecology Center, the Friends
of Rosemary’s Playground and
the Department of Parks and
Recreation to host an e-waste
recycling event for residents to
get rid of old electronics later this
month.
The event will take place,
rain or shine, at Rosemary’s
Playground, located on Fairview
Avenue between Woodbine and
Madison streets, on Jan. 26 from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“I truly love co-hosting these
e-waste recycling events throughout
the year because it gives my
constituents an easy way to
recycle their old or broken electronics
at a central location right
in their neighborhood,” Addabbo
said. “With the sanitation laws
seemingly always changing, it
can get confusing on what can
legally be thrown out with your
curbside recycling. So if you got
some new electronics over the
holiday season and need a place
to get rid of your old ones, come
down to Rosemary’s Playground
and take part in this great event.”
The event will be collecting
working and non-working computers,
monitors, printers and
scanners, keyboards, mice, cables,
TVs, VCRs, DVD players, phones,
cellphones, PDAs and other audio/
visual equipment.
For more information, call
212-477-4022 or visit lesecologycenter.
org.
Photo via Getty Images
Governor pulls the brakes
on L train shutdown
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
With only four months to go
before the Canarsie Tunnel
was scheduled for closure
for Superstorm Sandy-related repair,
Governor Andrew Cuomo is halting
the plans in favor of weekend and
overnight work instead.
Originally expected to be a 15-month
long total closure of the tunnel, Cuomo
announced on Thursday aft ernoon
that instead, one side will stay open
while work is completed on the other.
That means, of course, that the project
will now take up to fi ve years to
complete.
Not only that, but a panel of experts
will also be revamping the main corridor
between Brooklyn and Manhattan
with a design not yet used by transit
agencies in the United States that
wraps the bench-walls – raised walkways
that hold electrical components
– with fi ber optics that can detect a variety
of activities such as unauthorized
people on the tracks.
“This state is the most aggressive
state in the United States that does
the kind of infrastructure that we do,”
Cuomo said. “Nobody has ever used
fi ber optic cables on bench-walls to
detect motion… No designer wants to
give you a plan that hasn’t been done
before. They want to give you a design
that’s tried and true.”
Cuomo said the structure of the tunnel
is in good shape but components of
the tunnel are not since it was fl ooded
with corrosive seawater in 2012, and
the bench-wall is critical for carrying
electrical infrastructure. The fi ber
optic cables will racked against the
bench-wall, which he said is the most
deteriorated feature of the tunnel, as
opposed to buried under the concrete.
Fernando Ferrer, the interim Chair
of the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, said this new plan, despite
closing one traffi c in one direction,
will not change service for commuters
from what is already expected on the
line with cuts to weekend and night
service.
This work is expected to start about
the same time the tunnel closure was
scheduled for – April 27.
Brandon Mosley, a founding member
and creative director for Access
Queens, indicated that the change in
plans for the L train should come as a
relief for Queens commuters who still
face growing congestion.
“While it’s a good thing that
Governor Cuomo and his team are
thinking ‘faster, cheaper, and better,’
it’s a rather shame to see that so
Photo courtesy of the Governor’s offi ce
many man-hours were wasted for
this last-minute revelation,” Mosley
said. “State offi cials would benefi t
from taking a step back to really
think strategically at a high-level
for the city’s needs a large, rather
than what feels like arbitrary adhoc
decisions. People have already
adjusted their lives and three years
worth of work that the MTA spent on
planning for the L train shutdown,
was all for not.”
The Riders Alliance, a transit advocacy
group, was skeptical of the plan,
however, questioning whether or not
the announcement was little more
than a photo op for the governor.
“The governor’s plan may or may
not work, but you’ll pardon transit
riders for being skeptical that a
last-minute Hail Mary idea cooked up
over Christmas is better than what
the MTA came up with over three
years of extensive public input,” John
Raskin, Executive Director of the
group, said.
Brazen theft of 3,500 beer cases from freight rail car
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
Detectives from the 104th
Precinct are looking for the
whereabouts of a man who
they believe brewed up quite a caper
on the Ridgewood/Glendale border:
stealing approximately 3,500 cases of
beer from a idle train car on a freight
rail line.
Police said the grand larceny occurred
at around 5 p.m. on Dec. 19,
2018 near the intersection of Cody
and Cypress Avenue, near a train
overpass, with a possibly only one
male involved with no description.
Surveillance images that the 104th
Precinct tweeted out on Jan. 2 show
the vague fi gure of a man through a
thicket, but no discernible details of
the person’s features can be gleaned
from the images.
According to the NYPD, at least
350 of the cases stolen were Corona
brand; the entire shipment was valued
at about $100,000.
The New York & Atlantic Railway
did not immediately return a request
for comment and the 104th Precinct’s
Community Aff airs Unit were not
available by phone for additional details
as to how one individual made
off with a large shipment of beer.
Word of mouth circulating between
beer distribution companies
in the area said it may have impacted
Manhattan Beer Distributors in
Ridgewood on Metropolitan Avenue
and Woodward Avenue; they
have not yet returned a request for
comment.
Anyone with information
regarding the theft can call the
104th Precinct Detective Squad
at 718-386-2723; all calls are kept
confidential.
Photo: Anthony Jauneaud/Flickr
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