Transportation
The Impact of Brooklyn's L Train Shutdown, in 4 Maps
Cartographers visualized the neighborhoods that will suffer most—and worked out the best alternative routes into Manhattan.
New York City just announced it will be severing its L train service for 18 months in 2019, isolating Brooklyn’s infamous hipster kingdoms from Manhattan. Amid ironic jokes and genuine consternation, Bushwick’s young techies are scrambling to adapt, using the skills they have at hand. The result: these neat data-driven maps on the true impact of MTA’s announcement.
“[The shutdown] is very much relevant to us,” mapping company CARTO’s Stuart Lynn tells CityLab. “We’re embedded in the community.”