Crumbling sidewalks, car thefts, and the loss of vital bus lines are just a few of the complaints that Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries heard from Prospect Heights residents Tuesday evening during his “Summer at the Subway” evening office hours.
This week Brooklyn saw 26 bus lines get chopped or changed, eliminating nearly 300 of the borough’s bus stops. Here, we have compiled a detailed listing of all Brooklyn’s bus cuts, including descriptions of new and old routes and links to new schedules and maps.
On a recent chilly night, I was bundled up and on my way to Boerum Hill to have dinner at a friend’s apartment. As I walked down Washington Avenue the B45 bus pulled up next to me, and I hesitated. “Which would be faster, the train or the bus?” I thought. Before I could make a decision, the bus doors had shuttered. Luckily, the light at Atlantic and Washington was still red and I approached the bus and knocked on the door. The driver, a middle-aged African-American man, refused to open the door, gesturing to the next stop, three street crossings away, even though his bus was still idling perfectly in front of a designated stop. It was 15 degrees outside and I’ll admit it, I felt like the driver was sticking it to me for being white.
