Day: December 14, 2017

BQX

Still Pushing for the Trolley, by Nathan Weiser

The latest ploy by the real-estate lobbying group, Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, took place in November at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The BQX plan is to have NYC pay for  a sleek-looking modern streetcar service along the Brooklyn/Queens waterfront—a waterfront that is in danger of transforming from mixed use to luxury residential development. The BQX would serve this […]

Education

Halsey Street’s “Gridiron Mom” is raising $7,000, by Celia Weintrob, Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club

  Everyone in the neighborhood knows the famous “Orange House.” Shiretta Felton spent her son’s college years decorating the exterior of her Bedford  Stuyvesant home with orange and blue flag, footballs,streamers, tulle bows, huge laminated photos of him in uniform, and inspirational signs. Each time Lance Felder came home from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he played tight end for […]