On the heels of conspiracy theories surrounding last week&#8217;s taxi fires, a Curbed tipster reports a rash of car burnings in Gowanus and Park Slope: I live on Sixth St, btwn 3rd and 4th Ave, Gowanus. I came home around midnight on Friday night&#8230;. when I went for a morning stroll on Saturday, I came…

Cars Burned in Brooklyn

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<p>Before joining Streetsblog in late 2025, J.K. Trotter covered media and politics at Gawker and edited investigations at Business Insider. He studied philosophy at St. John’s College and lives in Queens.</p>


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<div class="p-rich_text_section">Nolan Hicks is a longtime reporter in New York City, who focuses on investigative stories. He spent six years at The New York Post where his stories prompted the MTA to redesign parts of the Second Avenue Subway&#8217;s East Harlem extension and helped uncover the LIRR overtime scandal. As a contributor to Curbed/New York Magazine, he dove into Amtrak&#8217;s failing power grid, NJ Transit&#8217;s reliability crisis and why it costs the MTA $100 million to put elevators into stations. He has also worked at the New York Daily News, Austin American-Statesman and San Antonio Express-News.  He joined Streetsblog in January 2025.</div>
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Nolan Hicks

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Dave Colon

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