Whose Driving on the Sidewalk on 4th Avenue Next to a School?
Yesterday morning, a parent captured the photo above and shared it on social media to alert others in the community.
This business is across the street from a school. In the photo above, children I pointed to the child because this happened while children were walking to school.
People are being told it isn’t the dealership’s car. Did a person just randomly pick this street to drive on the sidewalk outside of a dealership? C’mon.
These dealerships are not accountable to the community.
One resident pointed out that the dealership doesn’t follow the No Standing sign outside.
A picture taken in November 2021 by Google:
The police are not monitoring them either. This area has cars without plates/registration parked on the street. Who owns those cars and why aren’t they ticketed every day?
The dealership should immediately place planters on the sidewalk so no one can drive – not them and not visitors to their business.
On April 15th, Carol Langdon was killed by a car pulling out of the dealership on 4th Avenue and 90th Street. (See here)
Why don’t we see politicians taking action on these dealerships?
On July 6, 2021, Andrew Gounardes accepted PAC money from an organization that represents these dealerships. He thought you weren’t going to notice.
The organization: The Greater New York Auto Dealers Association PAC is a political action committee that represents dealerships.
They boast about their powerful voice in Albany:
The second item on their website’s sign in screen is legislation:
Gounardes likes to tell us that he is for safety, but you can’t be for safety and accepting money from dealerships that want representation in Albany.
We have asked the activist group, Families for Safe Streets to stop endorsing Gounardes because this politician is always heartbroken when someone dies, but doesn’t do anything. (See here and here)
Also Senator Gounardes is exactly forthcoming with information. He did not share this map with Bay Ridge. (See here).
Why did Senator Gounardes accept this donation in July 2021?
You want change, you need to choose different representatives who are focused on this area and not playing politics.
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Hugs,
marlene
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