Free Face Painting at The Coop on 9/21

On Thursday, September 21st there will be FREE face painting by the lovely Lucia at The Coop 4th Avenue and 95th Street from 1 – 3 PM! Full food and beverage lineup available for purchase (including caffeine, booze, and kids’ specialties), tips appreciated for the artist.

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Saint Ephrem Children’s Choir Registration

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Tai Chi in Bay Ridge on Thursdays

Tai Chi is being taught on Thursday from 10:00 – 11:20 am at the Bay Ridge Jewish Center at 405 – 81st Street. $10 per lesson – second lesson is free.

At 6:30 am near the bathrooms of Owl’s Head Park, there is a group of residents who do tai chi each morning. Many parks in the area have more tai chi led by residents.
 

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Taste of The Ridge – October 1st in Bay Ridge

Taste of the Ridge will be held at St. Patrick’s again this year. Date: October 1st at 3 pm in the the Auditorium. Get tickets: here

See other Fall and Halloween events in Bay Ridge or Brooklyn here

Volunteers are needed!

If you are interested in volunteering to help at the Taste of the Ridge, contact Fr. Greg at 718-238-2600

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Another Bay Ridge Store Closes – 4th Avenue

Good Luck News Convenience Shop at  9224 – 4th Avenue closed (next to Gustaro). Very nice owner – sad to see it good. This businesses joins the Bay Ridge businesses that closed list 

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High Holidays in Bay Ridge

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur at the Bay Ridge Jewish Center – September 2017. Tickets are free with membership or you can purchase tickets for Rosh Hashana here and Yom Kippur     here

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Disposing of an Old Sofa, Mattress or Furniture – Request Sanitation

If you have an old sofa or mattress that needs to be picked up by the sanitation, just go to nyc.gov/bulk and reserve a spot.  It’s free.

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Brooklyn Eagle Biased Towards Quaglione vs. 9189

The cover of the September 14th Bay Ridge Eagle paper shows the Eagle’s bias towards the Republican candidate for City Council. Maybe the editor, John Alexander didn’t understand the election results.  When 9,189 residents came out to vote for Democrat candidates, while only 3,648 came out to vote for Republicans, THAT’S CALLED NEWS! 

Why wasn’t Justin Brannan, who won the District 43 Democratic Primary featured/mentioned on the cover of the Bay Ridge Eagle?  Brannan had 3,561 voters come out to cast a vote for him. Also deserving mention was El-Yateem with 2879 votes. Does John Alexander realize that two Democrats had A LOT more votes than John Quaglione, who received 1789 votes?  To completely leave Brannan off the cover shows the bias of the Bay Ridge Eagle. 

As I shared a few days ago, Eagle reporter, Paula Katinas wrote a comprehensive article about the election. The articles are time stamped so we could see Katinas’ article was published first.  Besides leaving Brannan off the cover, John Alexander did an additional article on John Quaglione, but not one on Brannan.  Did John Alexander think Katinas’ reporting wasn’t acceptable for the cover of the paper?  Or did Alexander want to promote the Republican Party through the paper?

Newspapers which have reporters with biases towards certain candidates don’t help the community.  All this article did was show that The Brooklyn Eagle is an unreliable source for information. What’s really messed up is that John Alexander and his family live here, so you would think HE would want to make sure that the newspaper was being honest and free of bias for them.  

Justin Brannan and Bay Ridge are owed an apology for this type of media coverage.  

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Holiday Jobs at Bath and Body Works in Bay Ridge

Yes, it’s still September, but stores start taking applications for holiday help now. If you are looking to make some extra cash for the holidays, Bath and Body Works is looking for help.  See here

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Family Movie Night 9/22 – Wonder Woman

On Friday, September 22nd at 7:00 pm in John Paul Jones Park – 101st Street and Shore Road, there will be a showing of the Wonder Woman movie for Bay Ridge families.  Free.

Info states to come before 7pm to set up as the movie starts at 7.

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Yoga on Monday Nights in Bay Ridge

Yoga class on Monday night 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm at the Bay Ridge Jewish Center on 4th Avenue and 81st Street in Bay Ridge. $15 or 9 weeks for $110.

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Why Hasn’t the Brooklyn Conservative Party Told Us About the Upcoming Candidate Switch-a-Roo?

Today, Mike Long of the Brooklyn Conservative Party Leader was featured in The Brooklyn Eagle. He wanted urge residents to turn over the ballot to see the statewide ballot propositions listed on the back of the ballot. Sounds nice, right?  Not really, because Long didn’t mention the topic everyone in Bay Ridge is talking about – the Conservative Party Candidate Switch-a-Roo or “Placeholder Candidate.” 

Mike Long urged Brooklyn residents to vote against the Constitutional Convention, but should residents listen to a party leader who has a “placeholder candidate” on their party line?  Why did the writer, Paula Katinas fail to address the question of the Placeholder Candidate with the Conservative Party when it’s already been brought up by another paper? Is Katinas trying to keep Bay Ridge in the dark about local politics with press release articles?

The Conservative Party endorsed John Bruno for City Councilman, a candidate that no one has seen or heard from during this election season. If he was a serious candidate for the position, we would have seen him at one of the debates.  Bruno has been referred to as  “the placeholder candidate.” Strangely, Jerry Kassar was not able to put a newspaper reporter in contact with Mr. Bruno.  

In the last election, the Brooklyn Conservative Party supported John Quaglione. Residents thought Kassar and the Conservative Party were supporting McCabe because of McCabe’s close ties with the Conservative Party. Were the party leaders resentful that McCabe became a Republican last Fall?  If Liam McCabe received the Conservative Party endorsement, would he have won the primary election?   

Currently, John Bruno is an attorney. Somehow Mr. Bruno is supposed to become a judge. Why would New York want a person whose acting as a placeholder in our election become a judge? It doesn’t sound like a fair person.  We are not even sure how this is legal because it smells like corruption to us.  Kassar told the Courier, “[Bruno] has to take an interest in running for judge, which he has not expressed.”  Really? So why have people been discussing this on the Third Avenue in Bay Ridge since July, even though no one knows who Bruno is? 

Everyone in Bay Ridge has been talking about this Switch-a-Roo for months?  John Quaglione is aware of the plan as he told The Courier, “the winner at the primary, winner of the Republican primary is going to get the Conservative line. They put a placeholder in.”  Bob Capano, Quaglione’s thanked Quaglione for running an honorable race. But Bob Capano may have been duped by the “Placeholder Candidate plan”? 

We think the Board of Elections should shut down the Conservative Party line for this election since it doesn’t make for a free and fair election when some are trying to control the election.  If Quaglione slips into the Conservative slot, people will have to decide: Is this a corrupt election supported by politicians playing politics in our community? 

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