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Local residents gathered outside the Park Slope Library in 2019 to demand the MTA bring back the B71 bus route. Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon has been fighting for its return since 2010. Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

Residents of booming ‘South Brooklyn’ want their B71 bus back

February 21 | Mary Frost

Residents of Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and Red Hook are calling on the MTA to reconnect their neighborhoods by bringing back the B71 bus — a route that once ran along Union Street, looped around Grand Army Plaza, and continued to Eastern Parkway. They are also pushing for a proposed B81 […]

A rendering of the planned development at 340 Nevins St.

Gov. Hochul announces plan to build more than 5,300 housing units in Gowanus

February 9 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced that 18 new housing developments will move forward under the Gowanus Neighborhood Mixed Income Housing Development Program. The developments, all in the Gowanus area, will include more than 5,300 apartments, including more than 1,400 affordable units.  Hochul launched the program last year as an executive order to save thousands […]

City of Water Day: Special Highlights

July 19 | Lucien Clough

EAGLE: Can you talk a bit about the pollution in the Gowanus Canal? FRANCIS: So there are two types of pollution in the canal, there’s the historic pollution from the late 1800s: industry, heavy metals, coal tar, etc. That is the tough part of our cleanup and is under the EPA’s jurisdiction. They have the […]