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Blue in green: Lime launches cheaper electric moped share competing with Revel

May 2, 2021

They’re Reveling in the Lime-light! California-based company Lime rolled out an electric moped sharing service in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Friday, offering a green-colored and slightly cheaper alternative to Brooklyn’s own blue two-wheelers by Revel. “We are so excited to bring this vision of a multi-modal transportation alternative to New York City,” said Lime chief executive officer Wayne Ting on April 30. The service debuted in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and will be available in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and lower …

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Maintenance worker falls to his death at Navy Yard

September 6, 2020

A maintenance worker plunged to his death at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Thursday morning, according to police. Bay Ridge resident Marcos Rodriguez, 25, was cleaning the roof of a building at the southeastern corner of the Flushing Avenue Navy Yard near Williamsburg Street W.  at around 8:25 am, when he fell through the roof to the ground below, suffering head and leg injuries, according to police and the Department of Buildings. Paramedics rushed Rodriguez to Brooklyn Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, according to cops. Police spokeswoman Detective Carrie Reilly said investigators believe the incident was an accident, but the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the fall, according to DOB spokesman Andrew Rudansky. The worker was…

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An Interview with Designer/Maker Evan Z. Crane

January 6, 2019

AH: Where in Brooklyn did you grow up?EC: I grew up on 13th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenue. It is the borderline between Park Slope and Gowanus. It has all the colorful aspects of a neighborhood where residential meets industrial. When I was a kid, if you parked your car on the lower third of the block it was almost guaranteed you would get your tires stolen. It was, and still is sometimes, referred to as South Slope. The Daily News once called it “The Frayed Edges of Park Slope.” That is by far my favorite moniker.AH: When did you know you wanted to be a designer? How did you get started?EC: I …

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