Month: March 2015

After two deadly accidents near Myrtle and Wyckoff, Community Board five  voted in favor of a proposal by the New York City Mass Transit Authority to reroute two busses along shorter routes.
The proposal would affect both the B26 and Q58 bus lines, cutting the number of streets on both routes. Both Nicholas Ave. and Gates Ave would be cut from the B26 route and busses would only travel along Wyckoff, Putnam, Ridgewood and Palmetto.
Wyckoff would be cut would be cut from the Q58 route and along the new route busses would travel from Putnam, to Ridgewood place, then to Palmetto and stopping near Myrtle.

A Ridgewood resident took to Facebook this afternoon to warn fellow residents about a possible door-to-door scam artist.

At about 4 p.m., the resident reported a man came to her front door with a small clipboard that said Con Edison and no uniform on, just plain clothes. The man allegedly asked to inspect the woman’s home in the interest of lowering her usage. The man said it was a mandatory inspection.

The woman fortunately did not let the alleged “inspector,” into to her and instead called Con Ed. From there, she was referred to police, because the Con Ed employee told her that they are not sending inspectors to people’s homes.