Blood Drive in Honor of Mathiew Johnson – April 20, 2018

Rescheduled to Friday, April 20, 2018

CANCELLED ON MARCH 21ST DUE TO SCHOOL BEING CLOSED 

In the past four years, 300 pints have been donated at the blood drives in honor of Mathiew Johnson.  Come eat free hero sandwiches, cookies, cakes, coffee and tea.

There are over 20 free raffle prizes (just put your name in the bags).   

There is an arts and crafts table for kids to color, play with playdough and eat lollipops while their parent gives blood. 

This is an incredible way to celebrate the life of a loved one.

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Jobs at Ft Hamilton Army Base~March 22nd

They are hiring teens 14-17 years old too!!  See other jobs for teens here.

There are 40 entry level jobs up for grabs. $13 flexible hours, free monthly metro card, Military ID (CAC) card. Great way to get your foot in the door of federal service. Must pass background check. Registration will close pn 3/21/18.

See more jobs in Bay Ridge here.

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See Jesus Live on Stage – April 13th

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Marty Golden Failed Bay Ridge and PS 104

On Friday, March 16th the Bay Ridge Community Council held a rally and Marty Golden, Councilman Brannan, Congressman Donovan and Nicole Malliotakis attended (even though this isn’t her area and she says “this isn’t my district,” but today she wasn’t complaining because there was free press)  The rally was outside of 9114-9118 4th Avenue against the hotel being built across from PS 104.  It was then that we found out for sure that Senator Golden had failed Bay Ridge:

• Bay Ridge found out about the hotel being built from Josephine Beckmann, Community 10 Board Manager at the meeting held on February 26th (video below)

• Marty Golden announced that he knew about hotel for FOUR WEEKS. That’s a long time to not take ANY action until TODAY. Senator Golden didn’t even think it was his responsibility to send out information and let residents know about this. He said he tried contacting the buyers, but they didn’t respond. 

• On March 14th, the prospective buyers filed a pre-filing for the building with the NYC Building Department (if the Department of Buildings is down see prefiling here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)   to build the hotel at 9114 – 5th Avenue 

• Senator Golden announced he was going to start a petition TODAY. If he knew about this for FOUR WEEKS why didn’t he do something WEEKS ago? Senator Golden’s staffer circulated petitions for other things – I wrote about this on March 11th – why didn’t his staffer make a petition BEFORE the prospective owners (we were told it’s a group of doctors and others) applied to the city for this location? 

• If Senator Golden held the rally and made a petition FOUR WEEKS ago stopped the buyers from building the hotel.  MAYBE!   The contractor filed the prefiling with the Building Department on March 14th ( if the Depart of Buildings is down, here is the Prefiling: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)  and then Marty decided to hold the rally. 

• Senator Golden and Assemblywoman Pam Harris have made no laws to stop or restrict here:

• Did Windows R We shop owners realize Senator Golden knew about the hotel for FOUR WEEKS and did nothing?

• PS 104/IS 104  is across the street from the empty lot is owed a lot of money and Senator Golden hasn’t done anything to help them get it.

• PS 104/IS 104 is overcrowded and this location should have been secured as an annex to that school. Grade 7 & 8 students could have had classrooms

• Two activists groups: FBBR (Fight Back Bay Ridge) and AQE_NY (The Alliance for Quality Education in New York)  showed up to hand out these flyers to let PS 104 parents know that money is owed to PS 104 from the state government.  Marty Golden yelled to the police to arrest one of them because Golden doesn’t want the community to know that he failed to provide funding to PS 104. Of course the police didn’t arrest anyone because people are allowed to give out flyers.   

• Four Weeks ago. Senator Golden and Assemblywoman Malliotakis could have taken action and introduced a bill to stop deBlasio from using hotels as homeless shelters.  Malliotakis doesn’t represent this area of Bay Ridge, but she showed up at the rally because she wanted to be in the picture.

• If Nicole Malliotakis wanted to help, why didn’t she take action four weeks ago when Golden told her about the hotel. They could have written a bill before the documents for the hotel were filed with the Building Department. Heck, they could have written to the current owner and persuaded him to sell to a different buyer.

• These are lawmakers who think that rallying and writing a petition AFTER the hotel’s paperwork has been filed with the NYC Building Department is okay with us . It’s not. We will vote out Golden in November.

• We need new state representatives who want to write legislation to protect this community. Why haven’t these politicians countered the prefiling? Because they are too busy holding a stupid rally for photographs, rather than investigating why a hotel isn’t zoned for the area.  Golden held up the paperwork at the rally so he knows holding a rally is too late to stop anything from being filed.

At the top of Part 1 there is a statement that says the building is subject to the Department of Development’s Challenge Process.

Josephine Beckmann shared the information about the hotel at the Community Board 10 Meeting on February 26, 2018, even though no paperwork had been filed with the city yet because she wanted Bay Ridge residents to be aware of what was going on. Why did Senator Golden wait until March 16th to hold a rally when he claimed to have known about this situation for FOUR WEEKS?

In the video above at  1:14, you can hear Josephine spoke about test pits that were dug at 9114 – 5th Avenue and a hotel was planned. She speaks that this project (and another one) are “as of right projects” (which means that the builder is building within the legal limits for the area.

At 1:36 in the video, a member of Community Board 10 presents the problems that it is quality of life issue of a hotel being placed across from PS 104. On February 26th, Josephine said that nothing had been recorded (but she had the name of the contractor/person). Why didn’t Golden DO SOMETHING back then?

Let’s see if our local papers carry the truth of this situation and Senator Golden’s lack of leadership and silence for FOUR WEEKS or if they go for the dramatic picture of a politician who has played politics in Bay Ridge for too long.

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Art on 80th Street & 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge

Kitchening Home Store in Bay Ridge shared the video on Instagram. This art can be seen  on Tops Restaurant Supply at 8001 – 3rd Avenue.  Kitchening is next door at 8003 -3rd Avenue. 

HeyRidge explains how the honey bear came to be in Bay Ridge.

Thank you for adding this to our community — it’s  adorable and the bear is so charming on a home/restaurant store. Jenna Morello is the artist. It’s also listed here  which includes the honey bear.

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Senator Golden Failed PS 104 in Bay Ridge!

Golden, Malliotakis and even Dan Donovan played politics in Bay Ridge today across the street from PS 104. Golden doesn’t care how much money PS 104 is owed.

Assemblywoman Malliotakis was slaughtered in the November election by deBlasio.  Malliotakis doesn’t even represent the people in this side of Bay Ridge and if you contact her, she will tell you that. Yet she showed up for a rally so she could be on television and get in the cheesy local papers that will carry the story.

Malliotakis, Golden and Donovan are lawmakers and any of them could have made a law to stop deBlasio from using hotels as homeless shelters, but they haven’t because they are simply LAZY. 

Fight Back Bay Ridge and AQENY were handing out the flyers above and Senator Golden called out to the police, “arrest her.”

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Senator Golden’s Rally Against “The Hotel” In Bay Ridge

March 16th  – Update: At the rally, Senator Golden said he knew about this situation for FOUR WEEKS and he did NOTHING about it.  See here.

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Senator Marty Golden will be playing politics tomorrow, Friday, March 16, 2018 at 2:30 pm on 5th Avenue and 91st Street. Golden called the media to come and take his picture in front of an empty lot on which is for sale.

Why didn’t Senator Golden contact the buyer? Why didn’t Senator Golden write a bill at his desk to stop hotels from being able to be used as homeless shelters?  Senator Golden is a lawmaker who often forgets that he is in office  to help residents in Brooklyn. 

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Yoga – 5th Avenue/88th Street ~Bay Ridge

This place looks cool – Yoga for everyone! Changing Seasons Yoga is a new business in Bay Ridge – Congratulations to the new owner!!

This yoga studio is at 8805 -5th Avenue in Bay Ridge. They are having an open house this Saturday so go do some stretches with your kids at their free trial classes from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm.

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True Crimes in Bay Ridge – New Book!

Historian, Henry Stewart just put out the book: True Crime: Bay Ridge. I’ve been following Stewart’s writing on HeyRidge for awhile and I was excited to see his  book. 

I grabbed a copy from Amazon (if you have Prime, it is $12.99 plus tax = $14.14). I grabbed a copy because I love Bay Ridge stories. (I don’t think local bookstores stores have it yet because it just came out).

This is what it says about the book on Amazon:

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Good Shepherd Church Food Drive

Good Shepherd Church at 7420 – 4th Avenue will be collecting non perishable food items for RCS-Reaching Out Community Services.

· Peanut, almond, and other nut butters

· Cereal
· Nuts

· Beans
· Pasta, Rice, Oatmeal

· Canned or Boxed Soups
· Granola Bars and Snacks

· Shelf-stable milk
· Juice

· Coffee and Tea

· Condiments and Spices

**Collecting until March 25th

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Live Brazillian Music – Friday Night ~ Bay Ridge

Gourmet Fit has delicious, healthy food AND live Brazilian music on Friday nights from 7-10pm.

Gourmet Fit is at 6819 3rd Avenue. Nice people own the place.

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Golden & Malliotakis’ Response to the Walkout

 

 Silence.

As usual.

Neither politician even made a statement to let the students know that what they did mattered.

Senator Golden and Nicole Malliotakis didn’t even commend the students on social media.   #Nothing

We need new state lawmakers!

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