Beauty and the Beast – This Weekend in Bay Ridge
Beauty and the Beast was amazing. There is a huge orchestra so the music is amazing. We brought a six year old who loves Belle to the show. Not only did she love this show, she wants to see more plays! Get tickets for this weekend: February 9th , 10th or 11th here.
Photos from: Jeff Samaha Theater
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February 5, 2018Corey Johnson Shares Fake Tweet
Less than 50 people elected Corey Johnson to be the Speaker of NYC City Council.
Shouldn’t Johnson have a responsibility to check the contents of something before he retweets it.
The Donald Trump tweet that Johnson shared is fake.
I’m not a fan of Johnson’s. He’s followed in the footsteps of the Speaker before him and thinks this position is one to promote himself rather to get things done. We’ve seen a lot of talking, a lot of pictures, some dancing, but nothing has changed in NYC.
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February 5, 2018Corey Johnson Slams Inez Barron For Treyger
Corey Johnson has been the NYC Council Speaker for a few short weeks. So far we haven’t seen him do much, other than dance and take a lot of pictures.
Today when the Brooklyn delegation announced that Treyger was a co-chair of the delegation, Corey ran to Twitter to congratulate him, but in doing so also posted an article that made Inez Barron look bad.
I applaud Inez for running for the office and shining the light on the inequality in City Council.
Johnson obviously harbors bad feelings towards Inez Barron or he wouldn’t go out of his way to to embarrass her or any City Councilmembers. Inez stayed in the race for Speaker against Corey so I guess we are going to see several years of him being mean to her.
Remember Corey Johnson ONLY became the NYC Speaker because 47 other politicians voted for him. NYC residents did not choose him to be the Speaker. We didn’t vote for him to be the Speaker. His job is to help the Council members – not dance around and be rude to Inez.
Johnson awarded Treyger head of a committee, even after Assemblywoman Pam Harris was arrested for allegedly misusing money including money Treyger gave to her year after year (even after he knew it wasn’t being used correctly. We knew it wasn’t used correctly because the news reported it – so Treyger knew).
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February 5, 2018Blood Drive at Saint Bernadette’s
Donate blood on Sunday, February 11 at Saint Bernadette Church 8201 – 13th Avenue from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm in the cafeteria. Help save a life!
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February 5, 2018What Twitter Recommends…..
Some of my neighbors recently got Twitter accounts. When they look at my page twitter refers them to people. My neighbor wanted to show me who Twitter recommends to him after he sees my page. Hit the play button and see if you can see who doesn’t belong in that list. (Music is for old skool friends)
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February 5, 2018Drones Class for Kids at Kips Bay Y
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February 5, 2018Post Office Job Opening – February 2018
USPS is hiring See Jobs – $16.78 an hr.
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February 4, 2018Saint Patty’s Day Parade ~ Bay Ridge ~March 25th
The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is on March 25, 2018 on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge. I know it’s earlier to announce this, but everyone loves to know when it is because it’s a great day to celebrate in Bay Ridge.
They are selling shirts, sweatshirts and hats – see here
See other St. Patty’s Day happenings in Bay Ridge
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February 4, 2018Why Omar Vaid is Wrong for Bay Ridge……
Omar Vaid is running to be the Congressman for Bay Ridge and Staten Island. We never heard of him until this election. Although Vaid isn’t known here, Kadia Goba shared that Vaid is known on social media.
I wrote to him when I heard he was running for office:
See it on Twitter. Vaid didn’t respond. I have experienced this before with another political male from the area. I guess some mendon’t feel they need to respond to females on social media. If they aren’t speaking to us now – they shouldn’t be running.
I have also spoken to one of Omar’s staff members and supporters about this on Twitter, so if he missed my message, he would have responded then. (See below and here…..this guy says he will vote for him, but a quick search shows the guy lives in another section of Brooklyn)
Vaid hasn’t been present as a representative of this community. He deleted early messages on his Twitter account – which is a bad sign. He was actively tweeting in the Fall, but all have been removed. I wrote about his tweets in November. During the Fall elections, Vaid did not tweets about any Bay Ridge candidate.
Who is Omar Vaid?
- Omar lived in Bay Ridge for one year and then left (yes in 2008 he lived in Bay Ridge and left in 2009)
- Omar resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. What has he done in Williamsburg? Nothing.
- NYC ACRIS shows an Omar Valid with property in Williamsburg.
- His twitter account has followers, but few seem to know that he doesn’t live in the area that he wants to represent.
Essentially, Omar Vaid is “Pulling a Capano” on us. “Pulling a Capano” is a term coined by Bay Ridge residents. “Pulling a Capano” means a resident leaves a community, builds a life somewhere else and then has the realization that he wants to be a politician in the old nabe and get a government salary and pension. So he/she returns to the old community because he/she thinks no one is running there. The politician knows they don’t have a shot in their current community because there are viable politicians leading there.
Once in awhile, there is an area in Brooklyn that doesn’t have an interested candidate. For instance, Mark Treyger claimed Coney Island this way. Treyger was from an adjacent district. If you look at Coney Island now, you can see that’s something residents would not like to happen in their area.
Here’s the Problem with Omar Vaid “Pulling a Capano”……….There are many female, Muslim, Bay Ridge residents who are active here in the community. Each time women support these under-qualified male candidates (last election, they put forth a man who didn’t vote in the presidential primary for a candidate that he claimed to love), it stops female candidates from running. They are already standing up – we see these women are involved, teaching others and they have strategically campaigned for other candidates in the area. Yet, they are stalled from running because people keep pushing the men.
Eventually, we are going to get this right with the next generation who just want to represent everyone.
For now we need to get rid of the “wanna-be residents” who are looking for the salary and pension. The current salary for a member of Congress is $174,000.
Finally, Radio Free Bay Ridge is a site that I thought was going to be reputable for the election. One of the site owners works for Vaid’s election. She should recuse herself from election interviews as it isn’t fair to the candidates or the audience……even a disclaimer wouldn’t make it okay.
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February 4, 2018Mancini’ Heart Pizza – Bay Ridge
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February 3, 2018Dyker Heights Power Problem
In Dyker Heights, there was a small explosion – a transformer blew up near 10th Ave and some residents in the 70’s and even early 80’s are having trouble with power.
Problem was short lived this time and power is back.
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February 3, 2018Sahadi’s is Coming to Sunset Park
Sahadi’s Market is setting up in Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Sahadi’s will be at 52 – 35th Street – see here
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