Another Accident on 74th Street & Narrows
Photo: Sara H.
Terrible collision on the corner of 74th Street and Narrows Avenue.
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March 29, 20251605 Mermaid Ave. – Homeless Shelter in Coney Island. Why Didn’t Justin Brannan Tell Brooklyn?
An eight-story homeless shelter is being planned for 1605 Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Residents were blind-sighted by the announcement, which came from an article online, rather than an elected leader.
After Yimby wrote about the homeless shelter, Councilman Justin Brannan shared the article on social media. It sounded like he just heard about this homeless shelter, like the rest of Brooklyn, right?
NYC politicians receive a letter from NYC telling them about the shelter. You can request that letter by filing a FOIL request here:
https://www.nyc.gov/site/doi/contact/foil.page
Justin Brannan talks a good game about affordable housing, but the reality is Councilman Brannan put zero dollars towards housing in Bay Ridge since he has been in office. He could have put some money towards housing to help people in his community!
Strange things about this shelter location:
1) The homeless shelter will be next to a liquor store.
2) Residents shared that Mermaid Avenue and West 16th Street has a history of being where drug dealing, violence and murders have happened for decades so it is an awful location for a shelter.
3) There is a woman’s shelter on Neptune Avenue. Why are they oversaturating a neighborhood that is struggling? When that shelter was planned, Mark Treyger was Councilman and he told the community. (See story below)
4) There is a drug halfway house on Stillwell between Mermaid and Neptune.
5) Parents are upset about the proximity of this location to schools.
6) The article didn’t say what type of shelter this was. Is it a 160 bed shelter for families? I’ve never seen an article leave out the type of shelter.
Gunnveet Sandhu is listed as the owner/developer. He’s the owner of other homeless shelters in NYC. Another Sandhu is opening the homeless shelter on 86th Street and 25th Avenue in Brooklyn.
Community Board 13 wrote this letter to the Commissioner of Social Services. Justin Brannan was cc’ed:
When Justin Brannan failed didn’t tell Coney Island about the homeless shelter, why didn’t Kayla Santosusso, who is running for NYC Council? Or Chris McCreight, who is a Democratic District Leader for the area?
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March 29, 2025Smart Addiction Store on 3rd Avenue is for Sale
Saw this business on sale on Craigslist for $65,000.
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March 28, 2025Bay Ridge Events This Weekend
Saturday, March 29, 2025
1) Green Beret Brushes opened on 4th Avenue. From 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, they will have free activities and snacks for children 4-12 years old.
2) St. Philip’s Episcopal Church is doing the Station of the Cross and then having a Lent Soup Supper. They welcome any volunteers for bread and dessert.
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March 28, 2025Teen Attacked At Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn
A black sixteen-year-old student was attacked at the Stillwell Avenue train station by a group of white teens.
The teen’s mother wanted to know where the police were because the police station is there. The mother said the teens threw a banana at her son, made racial slurs, beat him, chased him and beat him again and posted pictures of him on the ground on social media. They stole one of his sneakers. The news shared the video – it’s awful:
See news:
A sixteen-year-old teen was arrested and charged with second-degree hate crime, second-degree robbery, third-degree hate crime robbery, third-degree robbery, and second-degree hate crime gang assault. A fourteen year old was taken into custody. The teen’s Mom called for more teens to be arrested. Info:
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March 28, 2025LuBella Boutique on 3rd Avenue is Closing
LuBella Boutique at 8807 – 3rd Avenue is closing on Friday, March 28th. They are having a closing sale.
Their store is still available in other locations and online:
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March 27, 2025Another Rape in the 68th Precinct – the Sixth Rape in Three Months
Another rape in the 68th Precinct – that’s six for this year and we are only in the third month of the year.
This rape is Rape 1 – it happened on 14th Avenue between 65th and Bay Ridge Parkway at 2:00 am (or was reported at 2:00 am). You can see these statistics here:
https://compstat.nypdonline.org
The new Captain is the same as those in the past – #Silent. Have any of the rapists been caught?
Strangely, the NYPD is not displaying the % increase. If they can display robbery at -100% then they can display the increases in rape.
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March 27, 2025Collision Outside of Met -96th Street & 3rd Ave.
Around 9:15 pm tonight, emergency responded to this collision outside of Met Grocery Store on 3rd Avenue and 96th Street.
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March 27, 2025Justin Brannan Was Slammed by The Post…He Knows His Followers Don’t Read the Paper
The NY Post slammed Councilman Justin Brannan. The title is meek compared to the article. See here:
Brannan posted a picture of the article on his Facebook page – without the link. He fear-mongered the people to get them upset.
Not one person commented about the article.
That’s why Justin Brannan laughs about the naiveness of Bay Ridge residents when he is with other politicians:
After @JustinBrannan leaves the @NYCCouncil he should launch a podcast called "The average person has no fvcking idea what's going on" with Justin Brannan. pic.twitter.com/SGOK3Pm26m
— SCOOCH ??? (@david_sivella) January 5, 2025
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March 27, 2025R Train Problems in Brooklyn Tonight
From Cassie one of our Brooklyn volunteers the subway in south Brooklyn has been a mess all day. @NYCTSubway pic.twitter.com/1eWKa5Yg35
— Passengers United (@PassengersUnite) March 28, 2025
The platform was packed tonight because the trains were not running.
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March 27, 2025Adopt Minou From Itty Bitty Kitty Rescue
Adopt Minou From Itty Bitty Kitty Rescue in Bay Ridge.
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March 27, 2025Councilmember Zhuang Has 4200 Signatures!
Councilmember Susan Zhuang has 4200 signatures on her petitions! WOW!
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