Nails By Fannie on 4th Avenue
I didn’t notice Nails by Fannie at 9220 – 4th Avenue (it’s next to First Oasis Restaurant and Gustaro’s is on the corner).
While many people think there are too many nail salons, those are probably people who don’t get their nails done. Or they are people who have gone to bad salons and don’t know the value of a fresh nail salon with an upbeat staff!
This location used to be Cynthia Nail and Spa.
Good luck to Fannie!
Protip: Bring your own tools to a salon.
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March 9, 2020Corona Virus Talk in Bay Ridge – 3/10
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March 9, 2020Help for Frank’s Dog
Frank Decolvenaere was the Bay Ridge man who was hit and killed by a car on 4th Avenue this week.
While I didn’t know Frank personally, I had run into him and his dog, Stormy many times while walking my dogs.
Stormy was hit by the car too and she ran home (which isn’t close to where the accident happened so this is pretty remarkable). A Go-Fund-Me account was set up to help defray the cost of her bills.
Give if you can – even just to show Frank’s family support at this awful time.
Stormy went home from the hospital.
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Frank’s wife and son – prayers.
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March 8, 2020Corona Virus in South Brooklyn
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March 16th New Update here
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Updated 3/10/20
The residents and families associated with King David Nursing Home at 2266 Cropsey Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn must be worried after hearing this news that James Cai, a healthcare worker had corona virus. UPDATE 3/10: James Cai was on the news this morning. He looked in good spirits and said he was doing well. Yesterday 3/9, The paper reported Cai said he was getting worse. See article Cai has been in a NJ hospital since Tuesday, March 3rd.
Mayor de Blasio said that a healthcare worker (James Cai), who tested positive for the corona virus saw 11 patients at the King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Source No one else at the facility appears ill right now. While the man was working he wore gloves and a mask.
As of 3/10 at 5:50 pm, 30 New York City residents are under mandatory quarantine (24 yesterday on 3/9). They receive a daily call and two unannounced visits each week.
As of 3/10 1980 are under voluntary quarantine. (Yesterday: 2,019 – that’s strange that the number is lower).
As of 3/10 there are 37 (yesterday 3/9, there were 20 cases of the corona virus in NYC. On Sunday there were only 13 cases)
1. A 39-year old health care worker, who is recovering in her Manhattan apartment. She got the corona virus from a trip to Iran.
#2-#6 Lawrence Garbuz, an attorney from New Rochelle with an office in Manhattan (Lawrence’s case has been linked to a number of other people infected in the New Rochelle community, where their synagogue, Young Israel of New Rochelle, has been temporarily closed as other congregants and the rabbi tested positive). Lawence’s 47-year-old wife, his 20-year-old son who attends Yeshiva University and his oldest daughter tested positive. *The neighbor who drove Garbuz to the hospital also tested positive. Lawrence’s two other daughters, 8 and 10 yrs. old tested negative. (A Brooklyn court was disinfected as someone connected to Garbuz was there – see here)
7. Man in his 40’s – not connected to other patients or traveling (March 5th)
8. Woman in her 80’s – not connected to other patients or traveling (March 5th)
9. A 39-year-old Brooklyn man was hospitalized in serious condition after returning from a trip to Italy. He had pre-existing conditions. His business associate tested negative.
#10 and 11. Two women in Brooklyn – one was 66 yrs old and the other 71 years old. They came back from a cruise from Egypt on February 20th and felt symptoms when they returned. They are home self-isolated. They had to sign a statement stating they would stay in their apartment (the statement was pushed under their door).
12. A 58-year-old Bronx man went to Chile and had lunch with an infected person. He returned, went to a Manhattan hospital and tested positive. See here
13. A 51-year-old-man from the Upper West Side who contracted the novel coronavirus in New Rochelle
3/9/20 – Seven New Cases in NYC
#14 A 68 year-old Brooklyn man – in the ICU unit at the hospital. He has heart disease and diabetes. NY1 News on 3/9
#15 A 22 year-old Brooklyn resident. NY 1 News on 3/9
#16 A 75 year-old Queens man. He is in the ICU unit at the hospital (has diabetes) NY1 News on 3/9
#17 A 7-year-old girl from the Bronx is also among the New York City cases. She is doing well and quarantined with her family, who have tested negative. She attends Westchester Torah Academy, which has been closed since the New Rochelle case emerged. 3/9/20
#18 – Rick Cotton, the head of the Port Authority has the corona virus. He is 76-years-old. Source 3/9/20
#19 – An EMS worker in Brooklyn has the corona virus. He got it from his girlfriend who is an airline flight attendant. She is quarantined overseas. Source This member worked three tours in the last week, partnered with 5 fellow EMS members (all asymptomatic and are being directed to self-quarantine) and treated 11 patients. 3/9/20.
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3/10/20 – Sixteen New Cases
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*Confirmed at 7:05 pm on Channel 1. 195 tests still pending.
As of 3/10, there are 173 reported in New York State according to the New York Times. Yesterday, 3/9, NYS has 142 cases (On Sunday NYS had 106 cases):
19 cases cases in the 5 boroughs of New York City (yesterday: 13)
98 in Westchester (most are in New Rochelle) but only 8 are hospitalized (yesterday: 82) On 3/10/20 – Cuomo said that New Rochelle was going to have closures of schools and houses of worship so they can deep clean over the next two weeks. The National Guard is going there to do oversee the cleaning and deliver food to those who are self quarentine. Cuomo didn’t tell the local representatives – they found out at the presser.
17 in Nassau County (was 5 yesterday)
1 in Suffolk County (was 1 yesterday)
4 in Rockland County (was 2 yesterday)
2 in upstate Saratoga County (was 2)
1 in upstate Ulster County (was 1)
As of 3/9, NJ had 11 cases of corona virus- 3 hospitalized (yesterday they had 6)
As of 3/9 Connecticut has 2 cases of corona virus
As of 3/10 : 607 Cases of corona virus in the US.
As of 3/10 – 26 people in the US have died. There were 2 deaths in Florida, 2 in California and 22 people in Washington State have died (3/9/20 – 22 deaths nationwide -19 of the fatalities have been in Washington state, where America’s very first case was reported.) From: US News 3/10
113,000 cases globally – 60,000 have recovered. (NY 1 News at 10:00 pm on 3/9)
NY1 News said tonight: NYS Clean will be made by NY Prisoners because there is a shortage of hand sanitizer. It has a 75% alcohol content. The prisoners can not use it because of the high alcohol content. Legal Aide is fighting for the prisoners.
If you NYC’s updates on the coronavirus, text COVID to 692692
See totals across the world here
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March 8, 2020Bamboo Garden Temporarily Closed
Bamboo Garden Restaurant at 6409 8th Avenue has closed temporarily. People are worried and the news being disseminated about the corona virus are keeping people away from the restaurants.
This beautiful restaurant is usually packed with people, especially on the weekend for dim sum.
A worker at Bamboo Garden told me that the restaurant will hopefully open in a few weeks….then he said probably in May.
Park Asia, East Harbor Seafood and another Dim Sum spot in Sunset Park closed temporarily – see article here
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March 8, 2020Permits Filed for 86th Street Hotel
Update 3/13: NYC’s site shows that the plan was disapproved. (Last Action: PLAN EXAM – DISAPPROVED
Residents in Bay Ridge were not happy to see the news from Yimby’s website that permits were filed to build a hotel at 634-86th Street in Bay Ridge.
The permit was filed on February 28th, so there was plenty of time for residents to be informed. See permit details here or here if the site is down. Information like this should have been shared with the community before the Yimby website broke the news!
Today, in response to upset residents on Facebook:
There is a Best Western Hotel in the area at 8315 – 4th Avenue. Is that hotel over capacity regularly? Currently, rates are low, around $100 a night see here, so that means there isn’t a large demand for hotel rooms. Maybe during the holiday seasons there is more of a demand?
This new hotel location at 86th Street isn’t a good location for a hotel as there are no trains nearby. Hotels are of interest to developers because under Mayor de Blasio’s administration, hotel owners could by subsidized by the city to house the homeless.
Councilman Brannan was annoyed that residents wrote on Facebook that the hotel could possibly house the homeless. People have seen this happen to empty hotels in Sunset Park. In 2018, Bay Ridge fought against a hotel that was planned across the street from PS 104. See here
Residents were not happy to see this document.
If Councilman Brannan didn’t want the chatter, he should have spoken to the community before an outside source gave Bay Ridge the news (The bike lane news came to us from a group outside of our community as well).
NYC paid 25 million to purchase Nathan’s lot to build a middle school. (See here) We aren’t sure why Councilman Brannan or Carlo Scissura wanted a school there. (See here) At the time, there was a lot of chatter about school closings in our area, so why did these men think 86th Street was a good location for a school? There has been no construction at the new school site. Some have said that those plans have fell through, but Councilman Brannan has not spoken about it. If the plans fell through, Brannan would have shared that information by now.
Finally, neighbors were concerned that residents, who live on Battery Avenue behind the gas station and (the former) Nathan’s lot have not been been told. They probably don’t know and may be learning about the hotel construction from Facebook. My neighbors and I are tired of being told what’s going on in Bay Ridge from people outside of Bay Ridge!
In traditional Brannan form, Justin went to Twitter to seek support from Brannanites. The Councilman didn’t tell Brannanites why people are upset OR explain that he hasn’t shared information about the hotel:
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March 8, 2020BRAINS – Swimming Lessons – Ft. Hamilton HS
Bay Ridge Aquatics Institute (BRAINS) is taking registration for their summer swimming lessons at Fort Hamilton High School during the Summer.
Register now – it will fill up quick!
BRAINS also teachers the lifeguard course as well.
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March 7, 2020Woman Hit by Car in Bay Ridge
Around 4:00 pm today, a woman was hit by a car on 87 street and 4th Avenue.
Loudlabs has a video. Only click here if you want to see the video – the woman is laying in the street. Loudlabs has blurred the woman and you can see some good people went to her help her and wait for the ambulance.
Pedestrian Struck by Vehicle @CitizenApp
8624 5th Ave Yesterday 4:03:28 PM EST
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March 7, 2020Brooklyn Reporter Treats Female Politicians Differently
Brooklyn Reporter writer, Paula Katinas, posted a survey asking the public if Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus should have fired her staffer after the staffer made these comments on Facebook.
The Home Reporter didn’t do a survey when a member of Councilman Justin Brannan’s transition team said something inappropriate on Facebook. (See here)
Paula Katinas also didn’t allow us to vote when former senator, Marty Golden’s staffer wrote something on Facebook that caused Golden to fire him. (See here)
Why is Paula Katinas making a survey about a female politician NOW?
Anything posted online is public. Why didn’t Paula Katinas want us to discuss Facebook privacy or social media posts when it situations happened in the male politician’s offices?
Dr. Mathylde Frontus apologized for her staffer’s comments. Frontus went to considerable length to clearly explain why she had to fire her staffer. See letter here Dr. Frontus also explained that the rest of her staff would receive sensitivity training, as she doesn’t take this topic lightly. (Neither male politicians did anything other than a small statement when incidents happened). Finally, Assemblywoman Frontus also spoke to Paula Katinas about the issue and Katinas was able to write an article.
It’s 2020 and The Brooklyn Home Reporter should be treated male and female politicians alike. Point out unfairness or corruption, if it exists. BUT please don’t use women for clicks to your website, IF you haven’t given us the same opportunity to participate in polls about male politicians!
If you don’t believe it was for clicks, why was it worded this way for a search engine to pick up:
We are surprised that the editor of the Home Reporter, Helen Klein didn’t find this survey insulting to Dr. Frontus, but also insulting to our diverse neighborhood!
For the future, surveys will be used here after Paula Katinas publishes articles like this or this into our community.
Finally, Paula Katinas and anyone at the Home Reporter who reads this, if you want traffic to your site, write about Bay Ridge. You know other sites are getting your traffic because you aren’t writing what is going on in the commuity – LIKE THIS.
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March 7, 2020Take Pictures of Bay Ridge’s Shopping Areas
Take 5 pics – even cell phone pics of of Bay Ridge’s shopping areas. Send them to [email protected]
See everyones pictures on March 18th at the Bay Ridge Library
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March 7, 2020Fritebar Opened on Third Avenue
Fritebar opened where the ice cream window was in the front of Bagel Story at 8503 – 3rd Avenue.
Fritebar sells seasoned fries in a cone with dipping sauces.
The regular cone is $4.00, the grand size is $6.00 and the double size is $8.00.
They have ketchup, chili garlic ketchup (very good) and mayo fry sauce.
Then they have these seasonings to make the fries special:
They also have several types of sliders: burger, chicken, cheese (it’s 4 types of cheeses – see menu below) and falafel patty sliders. They are 3 for $10.
In the future, they are going to sell shakes.
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March 7, 2020Young Love Easter Photos
I’m not sure anyone can be cuter than this!
Julia Xanthos Liddy of Young Love Photography at 479 – 83rd Street in Bay Ridge always takes amazing pictures with great backgrounds!
She has Easter Sessions on April 4th, 5th & 11th. And Communion Portraits – May 2nd.
Sign up here
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