8 DECEMBER 20, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
More track
work leads
to weekend
M shutdown
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Commuters in Ridgewood
and Middle Village will
have to spend this weekend
without M train service.
The MTA will be conducting
track replacement work along
the Myrtle Avenue Line between
Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue
and Myrtle Avenue-Broadway
in Bushwick between 9:45
p.m. on Friday night, Dec. 21, and
5 a.m. Monday morning, Dec.
24. (The track work is weather
permitting.)
As a result, M train service
will be suspended between
Middle Village and Bushwick in
both directions. Shuttle buses
will replace M trains and make
stops near the aff ected stations,
which include Fresh Pond Road,
Forest Avenue, Seneca Avenue
and Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues in
Ridgewood; and Knickerbocker
Avenue and Central Avenue in
Bushwick.
The shuttle buses will connect
commuters to the L train at Myrtle
Wyckoff Avenues and the J
train at Myrtle Avenue-Broadway.
Track replacement work
requires the use of cranes to lift
track panels and other materials
onto the elevated line. In an email
to Community Board 5 that QNS
received, the MTA indicated
that one of the cranes would be
parked on the dead-end block of
65th Place between 68th Avenue
and the M line, adjacent to Mafera
Park and several homes.
The crane will be parked adjacent
to Mafera Park, but parking
will still be permitted adjacent to
homes on the opposite side of the
street, the MTA noted. Neighbors,
however, will still face some inconvenience
by the construction,
which will take place “continuously
around the clock” from 10
p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday.
It was noted that MTA crews
will begin preparatory work at
the crane site as early as 6 a.m.
on both Fridays to allow for the
placement of the crane and work
materials.
For more information on
this and other weekend service
changes, visit mta.info.
Middle Village burglar steals more than $11K in jewelry
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
Police are looking for a man who
burglarized two Middle Village
houses in one day and took off with
thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry.
According to authorities, at noon on
Sept. 20, an unknown man broke into a
home in the vicinity of 77th Place and
Penelope Avenue by forcing open a
side door. Once inside, the suspect took
numerous pieces of jewelry valued at
over $11,000.
The suspect then fl ed the scene to
parts unknown, law enforcement
sources noted.
It was later reported that between
8 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. that same day, the
crook tried to break into another home
in the vicinity of 77th Place and Juniper
Boulevard South by forcing open
the front door. However, the suspect
was unsuccessful and then fled to
parts unknown.
Police described the suspect as a
40-year-old Hispanic man with a light
complexion and a slim build. He was
last seen wearing a dark Yankees
baseball hat, a black jacket, blue jeans
and black boots.
Anyone with information in regard
to this incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can
also submit their tips by logging onto
the Crime Stoppers website, nypdcrimestoppers.
com, on Twitter @NYPDTips
or by texting their tips to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls
and messages are kept confi dential.
Richmond Hill High School teacher busted for assault
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@CNGLOCAL.COM
A Richmond Hill High School
teacher was arrested and
charged on Tuesday morning
with the assault of a 16-year-old
student at the school.
Offi cers from the 102nd Precinct
cuff ed 59-year-old Paul Ray aft er he
injured the boy, causing a scratch on
his face with the aluminum foil from
an aspirin packet, police said.
The assault occurred at the school
on Dec. 7, and stemmed from an “unknown
incident,” as law enforcement
sources described.
As for the foil that Ray allegedly used
to scratch up the student, an NYPD
spokesperson said, “It became a weapon
as soon as he used it to hurt somebody.”
Ray was charged on Dec. 18 with
two counts of assault and one count
of criminal possession of a weapon
in the fourth degree.
Police are continuing to investigate
the incident. Richmond Hill
High School is located at 89-30
114th St.
Photo via Google Maps
In a statement to the Ridgewood
Times, a spokesperson for the Department
of Education stated that
the agency “reassigned this teacher
pending the criminal investigation
of this deeply troubling allegation.”
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