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ect must snake through before
any straphangers can hop
aboard, according to a rep for
the agency.
News of the contract comes
months after Hizzoner put the
fate of the streetcar in jeopardy
last summer, when he
announced it would derail
without $1 billion in federal
funding approved by
his political rival President
Trump.
DeBlasio’s plea for federal
cash — which some Brooklyn
pols in Washington, DC,
said he should not hold his
breath for — followed a city
study of the project, which revealed
that the streetcar would
not entirely pay for itself by
revenue generated from new
developments along its line,
despite initial claims that it
would by the consortium of
builders that first pitched the
scheme.
The adoption of a new financial
model came around
the same time that the city
took other sharp turns in the
project , including shrinking
its original 14-mile route to
11 miles, changing the path
of its Brooklyn tracks so they
would skip Dumbo entirely
and terminate in Red Hook,
not Sunset Park, and increasing
its projected $2.5-billion
budget to $2.73 billion.
Officials also set a new
start date for construction as
sometime in 2024 — the year
they initially said the trolley
would be up and running
when DeBlasio announced it
back in 2016 .
VHB’s engineers will seek
input from locals whose transit
hungry, waterfront neighborhoods
the streetcar would
serve as part of their environmental
review. And officials
expect the firm to start
pushing the plan through the
lengthy ulurp process next
year, with the hope of starting
the service in 2029, according
to an Economic Development
Corporation spokeswoman.
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neighborhoods
and shorten commutes for over
half a million New Yorkers
who live and work along the
Brooklyn and Queens waterfront,”
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“It is a 21st-century solution
to our city’s transit challenges,
and we’re excited to move the
project forward.”
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By Julianne Cuba
Brooklyn Paper
History is now.
Brooklyn justices ushered
in Black History Month with
a ceremony at Kings County
Supreme Court, which drew
a more diverse crowd than
ever since they began the
kick-off celebrations two decades
ago.
“There was a record number
of judges of all color,” said
Justice Sylvia Ash. “Each year
we get a larger turnout.”
Each year, the jurists
choose a theme for the opening
ceremony based on current
events. And their 21stannual
event centered around
“The Great Migration,” recognizing
both black Americans’
move from the southern
to northern United States to
escape segregation and Jim
Crow laws over the last century,
and the treks residents
of war-torn countries make to
the U.S. today, Ash said.
“We base themes on current
events, and there’s a lot
of talk about immigration,”
she said.
Attendees began the Feb. 1
festivities with spirited renditions
of the National Anthem
and the Black National Anthem,
before Brooklyn Board
of Elections Commissioner Dr.
John Flateau — who is also a
professor at Crown Heights’s
historically black Medgar
Evers College — addressed
the crowd as the keynote
speaker at the event, where
he also received an award for
distinguished service.
The kick-off event marked
the first of many Black History
Month celebrations at the
local courts.
Justice Lawrence Knipel and Justice Deborah Dowling
presented Dr. John Flateau with his award.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
By Moses Jefferson
Brooklyn Paper
Schneps Media is proud to
announce Schneps Broadcasting,
the company’s newest division
that produces unique podcasts
and radio shows.
The streaming arm debuted
with a Power Women podcast
hosted by President and Publisher
Victoria Schneps-Yunis,
and the return of an allnew
Brooklyn Paper Radio
program.
Schneps Broadcasting will
bring content from New York
State’s largest local-news company
to the airwaves, giving its
millions of followers a new way
to connect with their communities,
according to Schneps-
Yunis.
“The idea of creating Schneps
Broadcasting was to have
yet another way to reach our
readers and provide more op-
portunities for our clients to
reach the community,” she said.
“We want people to tune in to
our latest innovative way of
reaching our audience in each
of the markets we serve — from
Long Island, to New York City,
to Westchester.”
The Power Women podcast
debuted with an episode
featuring a must-listen interview
between the Brooklynborn
and-bred Schneps-Yunis
and her childhood friend, the
Hon. Judith Sheindlin — whom
millions of television viewers
know better as Judge Judy.
And the program’s second
episode featured an equally
compelling conversation between
its host and Brooklynite
the Hon. Patricia DiMango, one
of three judges on CBS’ syndicated
court show, “Hot Bench,”
created by Sheindlin.
Tune in to hear DiMango tell
Schneps-Yunis about her childhood
growing up in Brooklyn,
and how support from her family
and local community allowed
her to flourish.
Brooklyn Paper Radio returned
after a brief hiatus on
Feb. 12, with co-hosts Anthony
Rotunno, the editor-in-chief of
Schneps Media’s six Brooklyn
newspapers, and Johnny
Kunen, whom some listeners
will remember as “Jimmy the
Producer,” debuting an all-new
format.
The two welcomed Brooklyn
reporters and editors into
the studio for news-packed,
seven-minute discussions
about top local stories, and
where to go and what to
do in Kings County over
the days ahead.
Listeners can find the podcasts
streaming on all Schneps
Media websites, including the
new SchnepsBroadcasting.
com, BrooklynPaper.com,
QNS.com, BXTimes.com,
TheVillager.com, Brownstoner.
com, CaribbeanLifeNews.com,
and GayCityNews.com.
The podcasts are also
available on iTunes, Google
Play, Amazon Alexa, Spotify,
Stitcher, TuneIn, and
Castbox.
Schneps Broadcasting
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Media’s massive digital,
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which reaches more than
3,000,000 print impressions,
more than 2,500,000 digital
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each month.
By Maya Harrison
Brooklyn Paper
Talk about dirty books!
Sunset Parkers joined local
pols and bookworms at a
ceremony to kick off the redevelopment
of their neighborhood’s
library, which will reopen
at twice its size inside a
building that also boasts dozens
of below-market-rate units
when complete.
The new Sunset Park Library
building will provide
a valuable resource to residents
looking for a good read
— and those locals in need of
so-called affordable housing
in the neighborhood, according
to its councilman.
“Sunset Park is now home
to both a modernized public
library that is grounded in a
community-driven design effort,
and 100-percent affordable
housing units,” Councilman
Carlos Menchaca said
at the Feb. 6 event. “This is
a celebration and a pioneering
effort, one that establishes
Sunset Park as a model for
other communities across the
city that are looking to call
for resources to meet critical
needs.”
The branch at Fourth Avenue
and 51st Street closed
its doors last April to make
way for the massive project ,
which will result in a facility
roughly half the size of a
football field, with a dedicated
space for teens, a community
room, and outlet-equipped tables
when it opens sometime
in 2021, library bigwigs previously
told this newspaper.
The building will also include
49 permanently affordable
apartments — a mix of 11
studios, 13 one-bedroom, 13
two-bedroom, and 12 threebedroom
units — that will be
doled out via the city’s housing
lottery.
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