bus_083109.jpgThere used to be a bus stop in front of Met Food on Fulton between Cambridge and St. James. The downtown B25 and B26 buses stopped there, which was especially convenient for the residents of the Grace Agard Harewood senior center at Fulton Street and Cambridge Place. The Local reports that the bus stop was removed two years ago for street reconstruction, but when construction ended last December, the MTA and DOT decided not to reinstate the bus stop. Instead, seniors must use a stop between Washington and Waverly Avenues, which adds another two blocks to their walk. “They don’t think about seniors in this area when they make decisions like that” Iyanth Robinson, 82, told The Local. The paper reports: “Olanike Alabi, 57th Assembly District Leader, has contacted the Department of Transportation in hopes of having the stop restored.” The MTA and DOT are still discussing that request.
Seniors: ‘Bring Back Bus Stop!’ [The Local, NYT]


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  1. What are you suggesting, Randi? That we kill off all the old ladies? I swear, the best revenge for your kind of ignorant thinking is that if you don’t die first, you too will be old some day!

  2. Not to be insensitive, but there’s a stop at Putnam/Grand which is literally ONE block away. You could throw an egg and hit it from the senior center.

    To reinstitute the stop at the Met would mean asking a bus to stop three times over the course of four blocks.

    If safety concerns at Putnam/Grand are the reason for this uproar, I would say the community and the police should work to make that intersection more secure.