This weekend was the first of many planned weekend outages for the G train in Greenpoint, making for slow sales days that businesses and elected officials have been warning about since the plan was first announced. <\/p>\n
“It’s a bit better Sunday but still 40% drop, at least from where we could be on a beautiful Sunday when people are out,” said Perri Salka, the owner of Shop Small Greenpoint and Wondermart.<\/p>\n
Salka tells News 12 that many businesses are breathing a sigh of relief after a letter they wrote to the MTA caused the agency to reverse course on having two back-to-back weekends in June with no G train service. <\/p>\n
Salka says in a letter they received from the MTA, the planned outage from June 12th to 14th, running from Friday Evening until Monday morning, was instead shifted to a weekend in July. <\/p>\n
Businesses across the neighborhoods were feeling the impact Sunday, including the famous Radio Bakery, which, in a rare sight, had no line to get inside Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“A day like today we’d see 200 people, and now we are down to half of that,” said Rich, owner of Blend Coffee Studio. <\/p>\n
Despite the MTA running shuttles many customers in the neighborhood say they walked from Williamsburg or took the ferry from other parts of Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
“They are running but they are not bringing the people, or tourists to the area,” Salka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend was the first of many planned weekend outages for the G train in Greenpoint, making for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}