4 SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Citi Bike into expand into Ridgewood Community
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
As the Ridgewood Times
went to press, police were
still looking for a man last
seen leaving his Ridgewood home
on Friday morning.
Rafael Vega, 60, was last
seen leaving his Greene Avenue
home at 10:30 a.m. on
Sept. 13. He is described as
a Hispanic man with brown
eyes, black hair, a light
complexion, standing 6 feet,
2 inches tall and weighing
210 pounds. He was last seen
wearing a grey T-shirt, blue
jeans and black boots.
Sources familiar with the
investigation say that Vega
has a history of disappearing,
however since he would
normally return after a short
amount of time it was never
reported to police.
Anyone with information
in regard to his whereabouts
is asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hot line
at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or
for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA
(74782). All calls are kept
confidential.
Citi Bike shared a map that shows where to expect the 85 new stations in the Bushwick/Ridgewood area.
Photo courtesy of Citi Bike
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS Citi Bike announced that it will
add 85 new stations throughout
Ridgewood and the surrounding
neighborhoods by the end
of September.
The bike share program shared a
map of the proposed coverage area
that stretches down the southern
border of Bushwick to Broadway
Junction and up the eastern edge of
Ridgewood to Forest Avenue.
As previously reported by QNS,
Ridgewood is the only Queens neighborhood
that will receive additional
bike stations in 2019 as part of the
$100 million Citi Bike expansion that
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in
July.
Sunnyside, Maspeth, Elmhurst,
Jackson Heights and Corona will
receive the expansion somewhere
in between 2020 and 2023.
Citi Bike ambassadors will be at
the Taste of Ridgewood to provide
more information about the program
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 17 in
front of the 104th Police Precinct.
still looking
for R’wood
elder who
vanished a
week ago
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