12 DECEMBER 29, 2016 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM 2016 Year in Review MAY Construction on Metropolitan Avenue Bridge beset by delay after delay In May, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that the road work to rehabilitate the badly deteriorated deck on the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge on the Middle Village/Ridgewood border would start aft er the July Fourth holiday. The work was scheduled to take around 21 months, creating detours around the heavily-traffi cked intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road. Several months later and very little work has been done on the bridge, bringing into question if the roadway will be ready for when the M train goes off line in the summer of 2017. Happy birthday Middle Village! Middle Village celebrated its bicentennial in 2016, as the town turned 200 years old. Middle Village was originally settled in 1816 and was established as the midway point for travelers going between the bays of Williamsburg and Jamaica, appropriately giving it the name Middle Village. To celebrate the neighborhood’s birthday, the Juniper Park Civic Association held a series of concerts at Juniper Valley Park over the summer. 104th Precinct removes 20,000 bees from Ridgewood tree In the city’s fi rst bee swarm call of the year, the 104th Precinct helped remove nearly 20,000 bees from a tree at Grandview and Greene avenues in Ridgewood with the help of the NYPD Bees unit on the morning of May 9. “We had the prestige of being the fi rst precinct this year to have a bee job,” said Captain Mark Wachter, 104th Precinct commanding offi cer. “We have our own beekeeper. We actually have one of the beekeepers working for me at the precinct.”
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