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Mad as L!
Locals who moved to avoid line’s closure
steaming over change in repair plans
BY COLIN MIXSON
They want the governor to go to L!
Brooklynites who fl ed Williamsburg
and Bushwick to avoid the 15-month Ltrain
closure are enraged over Gov. Cuomo’s
last-minute decision to call off the
plan that many say forced them to uproot
their lives.
“We specifi cally moved because of the
shutdown, it would have made work impossible,”
said Whitney Lopez, who with
her fi ancé moved from their apartment
near Bushwick’s Morgan Street L-train
station to a pad on the border of Gowanus
and Park Slope last month.
The couple would have simply renewed
their lease on the Bushwick apartment —
which Lopez said cost about $250 less per
month than their new place — had they
known the long-promised L-pocalypse
was a years-in-the-making false alarm,
she said.
“We had such a good deal for our old
place,” Lopez said. “It feels so disrespectful.
He defi nitely does not care about
what’s actually happening in New York
City.”
Offi cials with the state-run Metropolitan
Transportation Authority began
warning straphangers that the line’s East
River–spanning Canarsie Tube, which
sustained severe damage in superstorm
Sandy, may close for more than a year’s
worth of repairs in early 2016 .
And later that year, they announced
they would shutter the Tube for 18 months
— which later dropped to 15 — to restore
it.
That news started a great migration
from residences along the North Brooklyn
line, which only grew larger as the
clock ticked down to the closure’s previously
announced start date of April 27 .
Indeed, a Park Slope broker said that
roughly 30 percent of all condos he sold
in nearby Carroll Gardens since October
went to buyers fl eeing Williamsburg.
And some unlucky relocators locked
themselves into contracts just days before
Cuomo’s 11th hour announcement, according
to the local realtor.
“I know people who already picked up
and moved,” said Peter Perez, who works
for real-estate fi rm Douglas Elliman. “I
know somebody who’s in contract and
their whole reason for moving was the Ltrain
shutdown.”
Another former Williamsburger left
her old apartment near the L train’s Montrose
Avenue station in June for a Park
Slope pad, where she pays roughly the
same price for a smaller space occupied
by more roommates, she said.
TO L WITH HIM: Mahwish Mahbub moved from
her lux pad in Williamsburg to a smaller, more
crowded spot in Park Slope to avoid the longpromised
L-train shutdown, only for Gov. Cuomo
to call it off months before its April start date.
Photo by Julianne McShane
The recent transplant doesn’t regret
her move, but said she would have never
ditched her former spacious spot if she
knew Cuomo planned to stop the L-train
closure at the 11th hour.
“In terms of what I could afford, it had
everything I wanted,” said Mahwish Mahbub.
“I like the apartment I was in.”
Those who did not fl ee Williamsburg,
however, should not necessarily expect
smooth rides along the L line following
the unexpected change in plans.
The state’s new proposal still requires
at least 20 months of repairs once the job
kicks off in April, according to offi cials,
which will take place on nights and weekends
to allow continued, reduced service
throughout the job.
And transit leaders already said that
some previously promised alternativecommuting
options — such as dedicated
Williamsburg–Manhattan ferries, and a
high-occupancy vehicle lane across the
Williamsburg bridge — will likely get
scrapped, leaving commuters with less
ways to cross the river once the work begins.
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