First Generation American, Nicole Malliotakis is Going After Immigrants
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis what has she done for Bay Ridge lately? Or Ever?
Malliotakis loves to pose for pictures and post press releases like crazy in our local papers, but the reality is she isn’t an effective lawmaker or Assemblywoman in Bay Ridge. How many times did she stand at the entrance of the Verrazano Bridge telling us that she was going to get the toll lowered? Seen here, here, here and here – so many times and then she went silent because she knows no one is listening to her.
Although Malliotakis is a first generation American, she is adamant against the Dream Act, which allows undocumented students to receive funding for college. Yet, Malliotakis remained silent about her vote in favor of tax breaks for developers in Manhattan (cause that’s a fair and just law to her). Malliotakis had no problem accepting a free trip to China either.
IDNYC provided ID cards and free admission to museums. While it looked like a good idea years ago, now that Trump is president, the people in the IDNYC’s information can be used against them. Mayor deBlasio announced that he will destroy the IDNYC data, rather than hand it over to Trump because it was never intended to be an immigrant registry.
Malliotakis and newly elected Ron Castorina put together a lawsuit against the city to keep the IDNYC data. Fighting poor immigrants is easy and actually making legislation to help Bay Ridge is real work.
It’s amazing how everyone forgot Pope Francis’ message:
It won’t take long for Castorina to realize what’s really going on here.
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December 6, 2016Insiders With Private Parking in Public Spaces in Brooklyn
Over the weekend, I noticed that Industry City has a lot more signs which state “Parking by Permit Only” around some of their buildings. Notice these signs are very different than the signs for deliveries at certain hours/days throughout Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams has his own private parking courtesy of tax payers dollars. He’s actually worse than Markowitz was on this.
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December 5, 2016Dyker Heights – Santa Loves Them Best!
Dyker Heights decorates like crazy for Christmas. And I LOVE it! Most of the houses uses the same decorations year to year and ten add in a new thing or two each year. But the real reason they decorate like crazy is because Santa loves them best.
There’s the #BiggestSantaEver on the corner of 14th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue. Last year it had to be taken in because of the wind. This year it looks like Santa is ready for the wind. This year there is a huge wreath at the top of the house too.
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December 5, 2016Bob Capano Shouldn’t Run for a Bay Ridge City Council Seat Because He Isn’t Current with Bay Ridge Issues
Beautiful bridge…..but the views on the two sides of the bridge are very different.
Today everyone in Bay Ridge was talking about the Muslim Police officer and son who were harassed in #Bay Ridge last night. Ridgites are upset because no one wants a mother and a teen being bothered or threatened by anyone, especially someone who is angry enough to approach a teen because he is Muslim.
Staten Island resident, Bob Capano wants to run and represent Bay Ridge. Yet,he didn’t mention the Muslim NYPD officer and her son today. He’s stuck on an old topic about sanctuary cities (a topic that some people in Bay Ridge were talking about in October). Capano wants to use people’s dislike towards the Mayor to get some votes because he doesn’t know what is going on in Bay Ridge. See his twitter feed today has old news because he doesn’t know Bay Ridge anymore:
Capano, a member Republican County Committee for Staten Island needs to stay in SI and run to represent the people he knows. No political party in Bay Ridge should be supporting a candidate who doesn’t care about the NYPD and the safety of teens and women in our community. The resident who put his hands on a teenager here doesn’t know this community and any politician who didn’t speak out about it is asleep or a moron.
Whereas, Councilman Vinnie Gentile condemned the hate:
Bay Ridge Community Activist, Justin Brannan always keeps us in the loop and had good news about an arrest being made!
Senator Marty Golden didn’t post anything about the incident. His staff posted sideways messages on Marty’s Twitter feed (get them some classes Marty).
Even Senator Kristen Gillibrand condemned the hate. So where were Abbate and the other candidates mentioned for NYC Council? They must be sleeping because they didn’t say anything online about the incident. Even Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis heard the news in Staten Island and posted about it later this afternoon.
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December 4, 2016Give an Experience in Bay Ridge as a Gift
We all have so much “stuff.” I love going to do things with my family and friends so I was looking for things that could be done locally. I gave Lee a TIG welding class (Gabriel from Weldtastic was amazing) and Indian cooking class (in this woman’s home) in the past and he loved it.
Classes in Bay Ridge for Kids
- Tinkergarden Gift Card for Science/Nature class in the park for small kids.
- Music Together – music class for babies and parents
- Little Gym for little kids and parents
Classes for Adults
- Art Fun Studio Wine and Paint Classes in Bay Ridge – $35-$55
- Paint Night held at Schnitzel Haus in Bay Ridge $65 (you can get a code from here or a deal on Groupon)
- Middle Easter Cooking on January 28th 1-6:30 pm $165
- Lebanese Cooking with Jeanette Sat, Feb 25 1:00pm – 6:30pm $165
Know of any others? Leave a comment and I will add them – comments don’t publish.
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December 4, 2016Muslim Police Officer Harassed in Bay Ridge
Update: February 2018: Christopher Nelson ‘suddenly’ died in his home (comments have pic of dog and mention of Ridge Blvd0.
A Muslim police officer reported being harassed in Bay Ridge on Saturday, December 3rd around 6pm. Story Here and more here
The NYPD officer, Aml Elsokary dropped her son off on 67th Street and Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge. A man in his 30’s started to shove Elsokary’s son. The Bay Ridge man did not know Elsokary was a police officer because she was not in uniform. Too bad she didn’t have her shield and gun!
The man said, “ISIS *****, I will cut your throat, go back to your country!” (People stop telling other people to go back to their country – it’s just mean!)
Video cameras in the area were checked and a store owner said the man walked around in the area with his dog.
The 68th Precinct is investigating. More of the story here and here
Update: A 36 year old man was arrested – also here
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December 4, 2016Bay Ridge Christmas Trolley and Tree Lighting – December 10th – 4pm
This is from last year – see 2017 Christmas Events in Bay Ridge here
Santa and his elf will be riding the trolley along 5th Avenue from 6th Street to 85th Street 12-4 pm. Tree lighting at 4pm outside the bank 7428 — 5th Avenue
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December 4, 2016Mama’s Greek Kitchen Opens – Bon Chovie Leaves Bay Ridge
First the good news, a new Greek Restaurant called Mama’s Greek Kitchen opened at 7024 3rd Avenue (formerly Pashazade and before that it was The Water Grill). They have a regular Greek menu, but they also have breakfast and deliver. 71st Street has been a hard corner to have a business, but this one looks very good. 718-748-3777
Bon Chovie at 7604 3rd Avenue closed (formerly Zito’s Sandwich Shop). I thought they were doing well in Bay Ridge, but they only lasted here a little more than a year (September 2015). When they went on vacation, people speculated about their return, but they assured us they were just going on vacation. Then the news came out that they were moving. Hopefully they will find more money in Clinton Hill as it was a great place.
Click here to see other businesses that opened or closed in Bay Ridge
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December 3, 2016Fort Hamilton Army Base Xmas Market & Tree Lighting
It was sooooooooooooo cold – freezing cold and the stands were blowing over.
I could have hugged the heaters (seen in the picture above) and still been freezing cold.
I think people would buy more if they were warm. How come they don’t have the market inside? Or do Christmas in July? It was just soooo cold.
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December 2, 2016Georgian Cuisine Opened in Bay Ridge
I didn’t see the restaurant open. I heard about Georgian Cuisine online because my Facebook stream filled up with pictures of cheese boats and people gushing over how good they are! The cheese boat is called khachapuri.
Georgian Cuisine is at 8309 – 3rd Avenue. 718-333-5363.
But like they say, don’t fill up on the bread! There are a lot of savory and delicious dishes that people shared including an eggplant appetizer (I don’t know the official name) My friend had the chicken in walnut sauce and said she would order that again. She recommended for Lee to order the beef ribs because he loves meat.
Georgian Cuisine uses a lot of garlic, walnuts and fenugreek spice. This is not the same as Russian food.
My friend said that Cucumber and Tomato Salad was tasty too.
Lastly, my friend said they have dumplings, which are good, but not better than Chinese dumplings – they have beef or lamb in them.
They do not have a liquor license, but they are BYOB – there is a liquor store right across the street from the restaurant!
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December 2, 2016Go Back to Sleep Assemblyman Abbate
Out of the blue there is a Op-Ed from Assemblyman Peter Abbate. The rest of his neighborhood is buzzing about parking being taken by a bus company – see here, here, here and here
Abbate wrote a generic article about tickets to sports and music events. I could see if we are in the Spring season and everyone was buying Yankee baseball game tickets, but it’s past baseball season. Why didn’t Abbate put this out last Spring?
The Assemblyman finally puts something out on the web and it’s just generic blah blah blah. Go back to sleep Peter Abbate.
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December 1, 2016Jaden Jordan – 3 Years Old – Another Child Fell Through the Cracks in Brooklyn
Jayden Jordan, pictured above is on life support. He has a fractured skull.
Jayden is from Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Sal Lucchesse said Jayden slipped when he tried to bathe him and then he gave him CPR. The news says Jayden was covered in feces. Jaden has a lacerated spleen and liver.
Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) received a tip three days before Jayden arrived in the hospital. The top said that a girl was being abused at the home and was “locked in a dog cage.”
Children aren’t suppose to die.
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