Bishop Crook Lights Fixed; Lazy Local Newsteam Relieved They Don't Have To Cover Them

Some good news to report on the new Bishop Crook lights with their oddly placed "No Parking" signs. They've been fixed! Someone working for the city must be an FV reader, because a few weeks after we reported "No Parking" signs were attached too high up on the new poles, predicting there would be many contested parking tickets in the coming months, the signs have been lowered to a normal height. More importantly, they also lowered the Stop sign on the corner of Newkirk and Rugby that was so high up it could easily be missed by an inattentive driver.

Pretty boring story, but it opened our eyes to how lazy the reporting from one of our local news stations is. We were contacted by an "assignment editor" from News 12 Brooklyn, the local news network that only people with cablevision know about, for a piece they wanted to do about the new lights. They sent an email to our tips page, so they had obviously read our entry about the lights, but the e-mail made it sound like they were informing us about the situation. They didn't say anything like "We saw your entry about" or "We read on your page that...". Instead, they said things like "We heard some residents report 'no parking' signs have been installed too high on the bishop crook lights. Therefore, people may not see the signs and may have issues with parking tickets." Yeah, we know. That's exactly what we said in our entry. And they also informed us about "a stop sign high up a light pole at Newkirk and Rugby." Oh really? How'd you find out about that? Oh, you saw it in our post. Right.

So after rephrasing our post they then asked that we track down neighbors who are concerned about the poles, get their contact information, and send it back to News 12 so they could come out and interview them. They also asked that we take more pictures of the signs and send them to News 12. So basically they wanted us to do all of the work. When we kindly suggested that they come out to Newkirk Avenue and find interview subjects themselves, they pretty much killed the story right there. I have a feeling if this story ever happened and they made it out to Ditmas Park they would've asked us to hold the camera and edit the footage at the end of the day. Lazy bones!