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The bad news: The Queens-bound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be fully closed for repairs this Saturday through Monday of next week along the Brooklyn Heights waterfront.
The good news: this is the final round of construction, so those nightmarish traffic jams that have defined a few of your weekends are officially (almost) a thing of the past.
Construction will officially kick off at 2am on Saturday, June 1 and wrap up by Monday, June 3 at 4am. During the time frame, the Queens-bound BQE will be fully closed from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street.
“We are approaching the third and final phase of our interim repair work for 2024 on the BQE to preserve its lifespan and keep it in a state of good repair,” said NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez in an official statement.
According to an official press release, the repairs “focus on new concrete and reinforcing steels bars being added at spans on the BQE near Clark Street and Grace Court.”
Although detours will be heavily signed all around the area, you should expect major delays and, to be quite honest, you should consider ocmpletely avoiding the BQE throughout the weekend.
Here and below, find more details about the various reroutes and closures:
Additional Travel Restrictions
Atlantic Avenue eastbound left turn onto Hicks Street banned (except for buses)
Atlantic Avenue eastbound left turn onto Clinton Street banned (except for buses)
Hicks Street northbound left turn onto westbound Atlantic Avenue banned
Ramp closures associated with work June 1 to 3
Queens-Bound
3rd Ave entrance Ramp
6th Ave entrance Ramp
Prospect Expressway Entrance Ramp (HOV lane to HLC tunnel open)
Hamilton Avenue Entrance Ramp
Atlantic Avenue Entrance Ramp
Queens-Bound Atlantic Avenue Detour
All Queens-bound vehicles must exit at Atlantic Avenue
Left onto Boerum Place
Right onto Tillary Street and take ramp onto BQE
Queens-Bound Third Avenue Entrance Ramp Detour
Exit Gowanus Expressway at Exit 21 to Third Avenue (Brooklyn)
Travel along Third Avenue
Left onto Flatbush Avenue
Right onto Tillary Street and take ramp onto BQE
Queens-Bound Third Avenue Entrance Ramp Detour
Exit Gowanus Expressway at Exit 21 to Third Avenue (Brooklyn)
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Getting to any airport in the New York City area is always one of two things (if not both): extremely inconvenient and prohibitively expensive.
To save us some sanity this summer, Uber and Live Nation teamed up to create a shuttle service that will make getting to and leaving airports a lot cheaper. Bonus points: the new service will also help you get to concert venues faster.
Although the full list of participating venues, hotels and airports hasn’t been announced yet, this is how the shuttle service will work: users will get to reserve a seat on any shuttle using the Uber app. You’ll be sharing the shuttle with other passengers who are headed in the same direction, much as you would in a regular Uber share, except in a larger vehicle.
The new initiative comes courtesy of rideshare company GO-GET 2024, which hopes to encourage people to have more face to face contact with each other by sharing rides. The driving philosophy behind the initiative is that, “being together is better for your health – and your wallet.”
The service will be available at select cities across the country. So far, Uber has only confirmed partners in Miami, including Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, Formula One Crypto.com, Miami Grand Prix and others.
Sure, we all love to make new friends and all, but the best part of this program is that, if executed properly, it will make rides significantly less expensive. Woohoo!
For updates on the progress of the shuttle service and more information, keep an eye on Uber’s Newsroom.
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Foster, of course, has been the hardest-working woman on Broadway for decades now, working her way up from teenage Star Search contestant to replacement and chorus roles in the 1990s (including in Grease and Annie) to starring in original musicals in the 2000s (including Thoroughly Modern Millie and Shrek) and working her way through the musical-theater canon in revivals ever since (including Anything Goes, Violet and The Music Man). Urie, meanwhile, has parlayed his early fame on TV’s Ugly Betty into a stage career of great variety and charm, whether in Off Broadway showcases like Buyer and Seller and The Government Inspector or in Broadway comedies like Torch Song Trilogy and Grand Horizons.
Once Upon a Mattress, a jaunty riff on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea,” made its Broadway debut in 1959 with Carol Burnett as Winnifred, and returned in 1996 starring Sarah Jessica Parker. The score, by Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer, includes such charmers as “Shy” and “Happily Ever After”; for this production, directed by the astute Lear DeBessonet, the show’s original book (by Barer, Jay Thompson and Dean Fuller) has been substantially retooled by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
The supporting cast of the Encores! version included Foster’s Thoroughly Modern Millie costar Harriet Sansom Harris as well as Nikki Renée Daniels, J. Harrison Ghee, Cheyenne Jackson, Francis Jue and David Patrick Kelly; none of them have yet been confirmed for the Broadway transfer.
The limited Broadway engagement of Once Upon a Mattress begins at the Hudson Theatre on July 31 and opens officially on August 12. It is scheduled to run through November 30, at which point it will move to Los Angeles for a monthlong run at the Ahmanson Theatre (from December 10 through January 5). You can buy tickets here.
Photograph: Courtesy Joan MarcusOnce Upon a Mattress at Encores!
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