Bay Ridge Teen Hits and Runs…..Must Have Been Hard to Be His Mother
A teen hit three parked cars in Bay Ridge. He left the scene because he was scared. The teen went home and told his mother. His Mom called the police to report the accidents and the teen was arrested. The Brooklyn Reporter shared this story about a 17 year old who drove a car and hit three parked cars.
Some people said, “it must have been hard to call the police on her own son.” I don’t think it was hard for her. I think the Mom did what she always does – “the right thing.” If she didn’t report the accident and cameras or a person captured the licence plate, imagine how much more trouble the teen could have been in.
Some people said that they wouldn’t have called the police on their son. Yet, this teen knows his Mom is a good person because that’s who she has been all his life and he knows his Mom did the right thing. The teen is going to get a slap on the wrist because he’s a first time offender. His parent’s insurance will go up because of the three incidents, but who cares…..no one was really hurt and the teen is alive after three accidents.
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October 30, 2016Blue Agave in Bay Ridge
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October 29, 2016Verrazano Bridge Jumper October 25, 2016
A car was found on the bridge and the waters below were searched, but a body has not been found..
Rumors it was a Brooklyn man in his 50’s who lost his wife to cancer last year. Story here
RIP Brooklyn guy.
People who have jumped since 2011
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October 26, 2016Fast Year
A year ago today, my friend George died.
I think about him every week and laugh over some of the crazy things he did. RIP my friend.
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October 23, 2016Spite Wall in Bay Ridge Taken Down – Be Thankful for Your Neighbors
Everyone knows the Spite Wall between two homes on 87th Street in Bay Ridge. And everyone is glad they aren’t neighbors to that home too…..except for The Geshons who really are neighbors to that home.
Residents complained about the wall since it went up in May 2007. In May 2016, the wall was checked by the Department of Buildings and found to be unstable.
The Geshons finally get to see out their windows again as the Department of Buildings removed the wall at the owners expense. See story here and here
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October 23, 201678th Precinct Halloween Basement – Worth a Visit
The NYPD 78th Precinct created a haunted basement located at 65 – 6th Avenue in Brooklyn. It’ open from October 26th – 30th 5-9 pm. FREE
We went last year and it was scary (not for very small children). The NYPD officers did this on their own time – cleaning, painting and building the sets.
Other Halloween Events in Brooklyn
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October 21, 2016Marty Golden Stop Advertising Graffiti on Twitter
Senator Marty Golden has been in office long enough to know the best thing to do with graffiti is get rid of it.
Yet Golden’s staff thinks it is okay to promote it on Golden’s social media pages AND OBVIOUSLY Marty doesn’t check it.
Marty Golden retweeted his staffer tweet, which included a two mailboxes covered with graffiti. Instead of covering it with spray paint, they are making one graffiti artist happy by advertising his work on Golden’s twitter and Facebook pages.
In the amount of time the guy took to post the tweet and facebook post, they could have spray painted the graffiti and gotten rid of it. Why is telling us that they reported it news? A
You would think Marty’s wife would check what was being posted with her picture.
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October 19, 2016Carmen Farina Is Coming to District 20 – October 25th
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October 18, 2016Knitting for Tweens in Bay Ridge
MizaBella Brooklyn Handmade presents Sticks in the City Jr. a 6week Learn to Knit program for tweens.
Boys & Girls ages 10 and up may join us at The BookMark Shoppe every Wednesday afternoon from 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Each child joins for 6 weeks, rolling admissions.
$120 per child, per 6 week session, all supplies included.
Stop by or call The BookMark Shoppe and register today!
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October 18, 2016Bay Ridge Robbery – October 17, 2016
Everyone was talking about the cops on 74th Street tonight.
A woman robbed a person on Colonial road and ran up a driveway behind some homes. It was reported to me by someone in the area that she was swinging a shovel. She got caught on a fence and screamed for awhile. It was loud so people from a block and a half a way could hear her. Then she got free, but without her pants on. She was laying on the ground without pants on and the police apprehended her.
The person doing the robbing may not have been well or possibly high.
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October 18, 2016Eric Gonzalez Showed Us Who He is Already
Brooklyn DA, Ken Thompson was buried over the weekend.
It’s Monday 10/17 and Cuomo announced that he won’t be picking a successor. Gonzalez obviously didn’t have the respect for Thompson that people think because a quick update was made to the site. There was no reason that Gonzalez needed to remove Thompson from the site and put his title up that quick. It was disrespectful to Ken Thompson’s family.
There’s no information about Gonzalez anywhere else or on social media. Even Thompson’s appointment of Gonzalez doesn’t say much. While Gonzalez states he was on panel discussions – I could only find ones based on his culture.
We are stuck with Thompson’s assistant, Eric Gonzalez, but no one in Brooklyn ever elected him to a position in Brooklyn.
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October 17, 2016200,000 Gallons of Pollution Goes into Coney Island Creek Each Day!
Yup, 200,000 gallons of pollution is going into the Coney Island Creek each day – 1.4 million gallons a week! Courier Life Reporter, Caroline Spivack has the most complete story on Coney Island Creek.
Where is the Coney Island Creek? Part of the Coney Island Creek’s green smelly water runs near Home Depot and Raymour and Flanigan Furniture Store. You can see BklynJoey’s video here – he notes how polluted the water is as well.
EVEN THOUGH OFFICIALS KNOW THE CREEK IS BEING POLLUTED, THEY HAVE NOT PUT UP SIGNS TO WARN PEOPLE.
Caroline Spivek wrote that some people have known about this report since the beginning of September! If they knew, why didn’t they tell anyone until October? Spivek even captured men fishing in the polluted water – see here. The area has not been closed off to people!
Here’s someone’s catch on Saturday 10/15/16:
Why isn’t every news station reporting this? It’s obvious that Councilman Mark Treyger didn’t press release this story. He loves to release press releases about nonsense to local papers (see here, here and here) but when there’s a real problem, he doesn’t do much, other than wave his finger and slur some words (see video here). Where is Assemblywoman Pam Harris and Senator Diane Savino on this topic? Pam Harris hasn’t said anything on her FB page (other people have posted pics of a meeting about it) and her Assembly Page hasn’t been updated since July 2016. No updates on Senator Savino’s pages either.
You can see a tire in the creek in the picture below. Tires are thrown about and polluting Coney Island, but no one there cares so the problem gets worse and worse – see here.
Even stranger, in the video, Treyger acted as if Coney Island Creek hasn’t been polluted for many years when in fact it was rated as the dirtiest water in NYC in 2014. It was rated 94% unsafe to swim in 2014, yet people don’t know that because there are no signs up explaining that. Strangely, Treyger hasn’t suggested any laws or put any money towards putting up signs to keep people in his area safe. Often, he likes to blame negative things in the area on his predecessor, but that report came out in September 2014 and Treyger was the Councilman at the time. NOW in 2016, when Treyger is aware that 200,000 gallons of pollution are going into the creek each day, he hasn’t done anything to warn people not to swim or eat fish from that water. Treyger knows how harmful this is as he was around when the City placed a dump in a nearby area. BUT THIS IS WATER THAT PEOPLE ARE USING – DO SOMETHING!
Spivak named the buildings that were polluting the area and this blog also mentions those buildings. Yet, Treyger is saying the EPA should clean up the mess? Treyger failed to mention any fines for these building owners – why?
Treyger spoke to Channel 12 News on October 8th. It’s October 17th, why hasn’t he updated the public? Where are all the press releases?
Channel 12 News reported that Pamela Pettyjohn of the Coney Island Beautification Project said: “That’s 1.4 million gallons a week. That is unacceptable.” Really? That’s it?! If that was happening in Bay Ridge, no one would just say, “that is unacceptable.” People would be flipping out. Do other Brooklyn pols understand the geography of the area and how the Coney Island Creek is connected to the water in Brooklyn?
Is the air quality safe for the baseball fields next to the Creek?
Also ironic is that the grocery store parking lot has a pipe which dumps into the Creek (see picture below). It’s suppose to have a pipe to go into the city sewer.
The other side of the parking lot near Starbucks and Raymour & Flanigan also has a pipe leading into the Creek (white pipe in the photo below)
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