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« Previous Entries Next Entries » Monday, September 14th, 2020Bay Ridge Brothers Team Up With Lays Chips
The Fiorito Brothers have been doing the Blankets for Hope Project for several years. (See here) Nick and Mike have been raising the bar every year to get more blankets to more homeless people across the country. Last year, their goal was to give away 10,000 blankets. (See here) Their organization’s motto is: […]
Sunday, September 13th, 2020Firefighter Hero, Peter Orlowski in Dyker Heights
Peter Orlowski’s and his family lived in one of the homes on 74th Street between 12th and 13th Avenue, that were destroyed in yesterday’s fire. (Story here) Orlowski is a firefighter, but he wasn’t on duty, so he didn’t have his gear. That didn’t matter to Peter – he ran into his […]
Sunday, September 13th, 2020Tortoiseshell Cat Found in Bay Ridge
Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Alpaca on Third Avenue and 85th Street
Abdul brought an alpaca to Bay Ridge today. The alpaca is outside of Falahi Farms Grocery now at 8501 – 3rd Avenue. He said the Alpaca was from Lancaster and was visiting to “cheer up the neighbors.” That is sooooo sweet! I always love hearing from Abdul as he thinks differently […]
Sunday, September 13th, 2020GoFundMe for Dyker Heights Homes
1) A GoFundMe account was set up for one of the home owners, whose house had a fire yesterday. See here They lost everything in the fire. 2) The GoFundMe for the other home – see here. 3) One of the apartments had a fireman and his family. They are […]
Saturday, September 12th, 2020Protesters at Brannan’s Office Over “Defunding”
Local residents of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge plead with elected officials to refund the NYPD. pic.twitter.com/TubGEgbZEl — Arthur De Gaeta (@gatorbites2002) September 13, 2020 A group of people showed up at Councilman Justin Brannan’s office on Sunday, September 13th. They were associating the recent murders in and around the […]
Saturday, September 12th, 2020Two Homes on Fire – 74th Street Dyker Heights
NYC FireWire shared this photo On Saturday night, right before midnight, there was a five alarm fire in Dyker Heights. The fire extended across these two homes on 74th Street. The newspaper this morning said that over 200 firefighters fought the fire. Update: In both homes, the families lost […]
Saturday, September 12th, 2020Arfan Butt was Killed in Dyker Heights
Yesterday before 5:30 pm, Arfan Butt was shot multiple times while in his car on 78th Street. An onlooker saw two men got out of the car and started shooting Arfan. “Following the gunfire, sources said, a Mercedes-Benz pulled up to the location; the perpetrators hopped into that vehicle and fled […]
Saturday, September 12th, 2020Halloween Decorating Has Started in Bay Ridge
View this post on Instagram A scary encounter on this morning’s walk! ???????????? #funneighbors #halloween #spirits #goosfun #nevertooearly #ghosts #gobblins #zombies #clowns. #bayridge #btooklyn #womanontheridge A post shared by WomanOnTheRidge (@womanontheridge) on Sep 12, 2020 at 9:26am PDT A wonderful person in Bay Ridge decorated for Halloween! It’s awesome! […]
Saturday, September 12th, 2020Grand Opening in Bay Ridge on September 19th
There is a grand opening celebration on Saturday, September 19th at Falahi Farms and the Fritebar. The celebration will take place on the corner of 85th Street and 3rd Avenue. Abdul invited everyone to come by for surprises and entertainment! See their website: here He is going to bring animals for the grand opening! Fritebar […]
Friday, September 11th, 2020Bay Ridge – September 11, 2020
@peterlagakis 9/11 ceremony in ##Brooklyn ##neverforget ##patriot ##NYPD ##NYC ##fyp ? original sound – Peter Lagakis
Friday, September 11th, 2020September 11th – Not Forgotten
A lot has changed in nineteen years. I’m glad there are people who know it’s important to remember this day. NYC was so patriotic after 9/11. Even with loss all around us, there was such patriotism. And we were all together. While there have always a few people who didn’t like the flag, this […]
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