Justin Brannan Voted Yes to the City of Yes. Susan Zhuang and David Carr Voted No.

The City of Yes was voted on today in NYC Council. The vote was 31 to 20. You can see the bill and documents (here). These council representatives voted no:

An an excellent community leader in Bay Ridge, Councilman David Carr voted against the City of Yes and shared this:

Councilwoman Susan Zhuang also voted against the City of Yes. Below is the map of the NYC council members votes. Susan Zhuang is the red dot and she isn’t afraid to vote for her community.

Justin Brannan and Alexa Aviles represent the green areas surrounding Susan Zhuang’s red dot (seen below).

While the City of Yes will affect some communities, like ours, it will leave other communities untouched. Some communities will not receive housing under the City of Yes plan.

Councilman Justin Brannan voted for the City of Yes. While other representatives released a detailed explanation of their vote, Brannan made a graphic. Bay Ridge, we need to get away from politicians who think you can comprehend a graphic, while they just voted for developers.

Justin Brannan is a council member who has put zero dollars towards housing the whole time he has been in office! Where is the money that Brannan should have put towards housing? It was given to not-for-profits. Only one Democrat in Bay Ridge has spoken out about this!

Justin Brannan has done nothing, but write silly articles about property taxes. Brannan pushed for the Property Tax Commission, which delayed any progress with property taxes. When the Commission came back with their results, Justin Brannan did not take action with a protest in Brooklyn or in Albany. Rents continued to increase to cover the taxes because Justin Brannan failed to take action.

Brannan is collecting for the NYC Comptroller Race. Why are real estate developers and lobbyists backing Justin Brannan? #Awful

Axion Management is owned by Tim Zisimopoulos (Ziss). He’s the man who flipped the Nathan’s property to NYC for a school.

Here is how NYC Council Representatives voted on the City of Yes:

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Kevin Farley is coming to Bay Ridge January 9th

On Thursday, January 9th, Kevin Farley will be performing at at Panino Rustico at 8901 – 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge!

$59 Includes the show, as well as an appetizer, house salad, panini of your choice, crepes, soda, coffee or tea.

This might be a good Christmas gift for someone in your life.

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86 Joy Cafe Inc. Put a Sign Up at 86 Noodles Spot

86 Joy Cafe was open and had a lot of beautiful flowers outside!

Under the store’s name are Chinese symbols which mean: Lianwang Tea Restaurant. *If you want to see translations on your phone download Google Translate.

This new restaurant has the same phone number as the former restaurant, 86th Noodles.

Next door to 86 Joy Cafe, used to be the cannabis store called Mr. Green (see below) , but now the store is Organic One (see here) The man working there was meticulously cleaning the window.

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Organic One on 4th Avenue and 86th Street

Organic One – 86th Street and 4th Avenue

This used to be where Mr. Green was setting up.

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Bay Ridge Lights Shining Bright!

Nice welcome on 5th Avenue.

The red and green with the white snowflakes so festive.

86th Street Bid’s sign looks great too!

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Gotham Named The Wicked Monk In The Top 23 Best Bars in NYC

Congratulations to The Wicked Monk for making Gotham Magazine’s list of top 23 Bars in NYC. Everyone in Bay Ridge knows it is a special place.

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Swimming Lessons for Christmas

Freedom Aquatics is having swimming lessons at New Utrecht. That would be a nice gift for a new swimmer! (See their website)

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Visitation’s Final Tree Lighting in Bay Ridge 12/8

Update: See photos here

Marty Golden shared tonight that Visitation will have its final tree lighting ceremony on Sunday, December 8th.

The tree will be lit during the 4:00 pm mass and then the official tree lighting will happen at 5:00 pm.

See other tree lightings in Bay Ridge (here)

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Weight Watchers is Back in Bay Ridge

Weight Watchers is back in Bay Ridge.

They meet at the Hotel Gregory on 4th Avenue at 9:30 am on Wednesday.

In January, they will meet a little later Wednesday at 10AM and additionally Saturdays at 10:00 AM.

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Fire on 99th Street and 4th Avenue – Bay Ridge

(Photo from video)

It’s 11:40 pm. We heard the sound of many firetrucks flying down 3rd Avenue. There is a fire on 99th Street and 4th Avenue – it’s in the second floor apartment over Campania. (See videos)

The firefighters had set up ladders going to the two apartments and the roof as well.

The fire is out now and thankfully no one was hurt. Unfortunately, the man who lived in the apartment lost everything. The apartment needs to gutted.

He is one of the amazing chefs at Campania Restaurant. A GoFundMe was started here – even $10 helps. They are collecting clothing in size Large or XL for him and Medium/Large for his wife. Their cat is okay and safe – thank God!

Update: Campania will be closed for a little while they repair the restaurant. Maybe someone will do a small campaign for those workers – so they can live and have some Christmas too.

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Best Bay Ridge Homes Decorated For Christmas

1) The Bay Ridge Holiday House at 635 – 79th Street – AMAZING!!

2) The blue house on 81st Street between Colonial Road and Narrows and Avenue.

3) 80th Street and Colonial Road

4) Narrows Avenue and 72nd Street

5) 81st Street between Narrows and Colonial Road (See video)

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Kayla Santosuosso – No. We Need New People.

Justin Brannan is term-limited so his staffer, Kayla Santosusso is running for office.

While Brannan’s Chief of Staff, Chris McCreight was defeated in November, this NYC Council seat is a very gerrymandered district (meaning: the strange map below was made to include more Democrats and exclude the Republicans from Dyker Heights).

When redistricting happened, we should have heard Kayla speak out against these ridiculous district lines. Kayla did not speak out against gerrymandering.

Kayla announced she is running for office, but she hasn’t posted a website with what she represents. That’s the most important thing to voters.

But that’s not the most important thing to politicians. Kayla is collecting money:

Here’s the weird thing:

Kayla Santosuosso is best known for running Khader El-Yateem’s failed campaign in 2017. El-Yateem was a Socialist. (Source)

Kayla filed an ethics violation against Justin Brannan in 2017. (Source) Then she went to work for Brannan?!

Kayla wrote this in her campaign announcement today (here):

While working for Justin Brannan, Kayla was recorded by a group of environmental activists, who went to Brannan’s office because he was not responding to them. No one at a politician’s office should be speaking the way Kayla spoke to them:

The people in the video were fighting for a park not to be destroyed – 1000 trees were removed from this NYC park! (Info)

Before working for Brannan, Kayla participated in protests, so I am surprised she spoke to the activists like that.

The person who runs for this position needs to be someone who unites people. Even in Kayla’s recent writing about election day, she’s dividing the community. (See here)

In October, we saw Kayla campaigning at the Halloween event at Owls Head Park paid for by taxpayers. Bothering parents while they are spending time with their child is wrong. (Seen here) If Chris McCreight and Andrew Gounardes funded the event with their campaign funds, then it would be fine to campaign there – Kayla knew they didn’t and she shouldn’t have been handing out campaign material.

For years, Justin Brannan has ignored big problems in the area. Kayla has not spoken out against corruption or any problems. Why didn’t she help the homeless on R train or do something to stop the craziness on the sidewalks/streets caused by electric bikes. We don’t need another council representative ignoring the problems of the area and taking photos.

Electing anyone from Brannan’s office would just be shuffling chairs.

We need a parent to take this position because they will do the right thing. We need someone committed to helping mentally ill people on the R train. We need someone to take community concerns seriously. There are a lot of outspoken parents, who would do a great job in this position. Now is the time to apply!

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