Day: June 12, 2020

BQX, News

BQX funding shortfall, by Larry Penner

It is no surprise that, due to the financial crisis imposed by COVID-19 upon the municipal budget, Mayor Bill de Blasio is reconsidering advancing his $2.7 billion Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar project known as BQX. There was never a guarantee that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) would pay for 50 per cent of the cost. Dreams of Amazon doing the […]

History

Covid takes a Brooklyn newspaper pioneer, by George Fiala, Tracy Garrity and Peter Haley

New – the Phoenix is now online!  https://www.digifind-it.com/phoenix/views/home.php COVID takes a Brooklyn newspaper pioneer by George Fiala Michael A. Armstrong, originally from the state of Washington, but who spent the majority of his 79 years in Boerum Hill, passed away last month after spending 17 days on a ventilator at Methodist Hospital. Dnynia, his wife and publishing partner, succumbed a […]