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Elon Musk’s Partners Propose Bad Idea For the L Train Shutdown
Marina Galperina · 06/16/16 12:05PMWho wants to climb into this bowel bobbing in the river? With the likely L train shutdown looming in 2019—affecting 250,000 people who commute between Manhattan and Brooklyn daily—it’s time to look at possible solutions. One solution is turning parts of 14th Street into a bus, bicycle, and pedestrian only zone. And then, there’s this:
Williamsburg Is Melting Down Over Proposed L Train Closure
J.K. Trotter · 01/29/16 11:30AMA few weeks ago, officials at New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced preliminary plans to repair and fortify the Canarsie subway tunnel beneath the East River, a job that would require temporarily shutting down L train service between Williamsburg and Manhattan (either completely for an entire year, or just on weekends for three years). The announcement was initially greeted as a joke aimed at the neighborhood’s creative residents—the L train? Shut down? Hahaha!—but now those residents have begun to register actual alarm. Gothamist has the details from a recent town hall meeting (bolding ours):
Who Exactly Will Be Inconvenienced By The L Train's Imminent Disappearance?
Jordan Sargent · 01/13/16 07:35PMHamilton Nolan · 03/24/14 10:06AM
Have You Seen This Man? Or Maybe Just His Dick? Meet Your New Subway Flasher. (NSFW)
Caity Weaver · 12/06/12 02:46PMBystander Captures Video of Fight and Arrest on L Train
Louis Peitzman · 07/14/12 01:04PM
A reader sent in this video he shot of a dramatic scene on the L train in Brooklyn last night. Here's how he set it up—
Subway Fights: Runaway Baby Carriage Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 07/21/11 10:19AMAnd Now, a New York City Subway Catfight
Matt Cherette · 01/24/11 02:41PMSubway Fire Shuts Down L Train in Both Directions
Richard Lawson · 09/13/10 10:39AMSpoiler Alert: Your Train Will Never Get Here
Max Read · 08/25/10 02:33AMThe L Train: New York's Sexiest, Most Romantic Pick-Up Spot
Richard Lawson · 06/28/10 12:04PMThe Gruesome L Train Incident: Solved
Hamilton Nolan · 10/07/09 02:38PML Train Death? (Updated)
Hamilton Nolan · 10/07/09 10:44AMPassage to Hipster Brooklyn Clogged With Nekkid Ladies, For Art
Hamilton Nolan · 08/20/09 08:38AMZach Galifianakis: L Train
Valerie Flame · 07/08/09 03:42PMPukey Pug Hugger or Kooky Jew Boo-er?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/01/09 09:56AMOwner of Puking Subway Dog Treated Roughly
Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/09 04:41PMReport: Williamsburg Not As Cool As It Was, Earth Revolves Around Sun
Hamilton Nolan · 02/22/08 01:48PMHeartbreaking news out of Brooklyn: Williamsburg has changed. It seems the HIP young hipster area is "no longer a neighborhood, but a destination for debauchery." And the L train to Bedford Avenue—it's no longer a seedy underground passage to hipsterdom. Now it's just a gateway to formerly desolate streets "packed with giggling outer-borough and outer-island 20- and 30-somethings on a night out." [NY Observer] Crap! When did this happen?!?