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April 28, 2023
iHome Realty Group Added Their Sign to 3rd Ave
iHome Realty added a sign to their storefront at 9913 3rd Avenue, 718-500-2928
Congratulations to the broker and realtors!
This location used to be Top Tech Security.
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April 28, 2023
68th Precinct Warnings to Car Owners
Don't be an easy target! Protect your property against theft! pic.twitter.com/oJXb6dEzqM
— NYPD 68th Precinct (@NYPD68Pct) April 28, 2023

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April 27, 2023
Streetsblog Highlights Malliotakis’ Tickets
Streetsblog saw Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis in Manhattan and found out that she received a lot of speeding tickets – some in school zones. (See here) Most of the tickets she received were in Manhattan. (See here)
They wrote about it here.
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April 27, 2023
CB 11 Meeting’s Are Better Than CB 10’s
Community Board 11 held a virtual meeting tonight on Zoom. This meeting did not discuss the 86th Street and 14th Avenue building – that meeting was supposed to be on May 4th, but they shared the information above that the application was withdrawn.
I thought CB 11’s meeting was going to be horrible because the Brooklyn Borough President’s staffer was there with his slide deck.
It’s no secret that lobbyists win with Antonio Reynoso, but it was actually informative. (See Brooklyn’s Plan here)
The meeting highlighted some problems that I never saw Community Board 10 talk about.
First up was the filthy air near Owl’s Head Wastewater Treatment Plant and Sunset Park.
Look at the map above – poor Sunset Park has a Particle Mass of 2.5, which means it is dangerous for people’s health!
Also Reynoso’s staffer said that they want to make parking for residents in Brooklyn. While Reynoso supports cyclists, he drives a car. (See here)
Reynoso’s staffer breezed by the waterfront issues. Pay attention here – there’s way too many people who are interested in Brooklyn’s waterfront AND Andrew Gounardes made a waterfront district for himself.
Finally, they discussed housing, but the 86th Street and 14th Avenue property was not spoken about. This might be why people think the housing fight is not over.
Marnee and Laurie know the problems of the community well – they both told Ethan from the Borough Presidents office that his presentation was not complete because it did not include the 800 to 1000 units coming to Cropsey Avenue (but none of them are affordable units). That has to be the development that Councilman Brannan was lobbied over. (See here)
Can you imagine that Justin Brannan did not include affordable units in the new buildings! All of those units and none of them have affordable apartments!
They discussed the sewer problems, as well as the overcrowded schools. Ethan didn’t say he was going to help or do anything after Marnee explained that the area smells like a treatment plant sometimes. Ross said that other communities need to have their fair share, as there are already existing problems in Community Board 11.

On May 18th, the Brooklyn Borough President is having a meeting about the plan for Brooklyn – information here.
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April 27, 2023
What’s Happening in Bay Ridge This Weekend?
Friday, April 28th
1) Assemblyman Lester Chang’s Office Grand Opening
2) PS 204’s PTA is having a Spring Fling Dinner Dance
3) GayRidge Fun Event at Status Q: Queer
4) Xaverian Dramatics performs Anything Goes
5) Brooklyn Bards Live – a Memorial for Donal Nolan from the Brooklyn Bards – 8:00 pm at Schnitzel Haus
One 2 Many will be at The Leif at 8:00 pm. 6725- 5th Avenue
Saturday, April 29th
1) Independent Bookstore Crawl ends
2) NYC Teens and My Natural Pet have a cat and kitten adoption event from 2-5 pm at 8318 – 5th Avenue.
3) Brooklyn Roots will have it’s first brunch.
4) Mommy & Me Photo Shoot at The Ridge Shop – sign up here.
5) St. Patrick’s Church has the Rhapsody Players performing at 7:30 pm.
5) Hom has Golden Girls Drag Bingo
6) Night at the Races for St. Athanasius Children’s Sports Program
Sunday, April 30th
1) Memorial Day Parade Fundraiser – 75th Street and 3rd Avenue – starts at 12:30 pm.
2) Troop 2151 Girl Scouts will be selling cookies outside of the Bookmark Shoppe at 8415 – 3rd Avenue.
3) Children’s Cupcake Decorating Class with Grandma’s Love and Annie Cakes at The Ridge Shop – register here
4) The Brooklyn Bards will play at Kitty Kiernan’s at 9715 – 3rd Avenue.
5) Tulip Sunday at Indigo Murphy’s on Ft. Hamilton Parkway and 71st Street.
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See May Events in Bay Ridge here
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April 27, 2023
Maimonides Emergency Room in Bay Ridge
Maimonides Emergency Room in Bay Ridge shared these pictures as they get ready for their May 9th Opening.
The MAIMO emergency department can provide:
Trauma or wound care
Cardiac testing and cardiology services
Orthopedic care
Pediatric care
Psychiatric care
OB/GYN care
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April 27, 2023
Stanley Ng – District 43 NYC Council Candidate
Brooklyn, Stanley Ng is the best candidate to represent the new district. He has worked with both Democrats and Republicans because he’s the type of person who gets along with everyone. Vote for him if you want safer streets and stronger schools.
Some of the other candidates worked in current politicians office – don’t vote for them! Let’s get new people to help the community!
Stanely is a fighter and a winner. (See here)
Find out more about Stanley here.
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April 27, 2023
Marcela Cocina Mexican Restaurant Opened on Fort Hamilton Parkway
Congratulations to the new owners of Marcela Cocina Mexican Restaurant at 7121 Fort Hamilton Pkwy.
This location is where My Three Sons Diner was for many years. It moved to moved to 6518 – 11th Avenue. (See photo)
Marcela’s interior was completely redone and the place looks beautiful. Sabrina shared this photo on FB and raved about the place! See their menu here.
The neighborhood knows these owners, as they are the nice people from Brothers Bagels on 71st Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway.
We know their new place is going to be great because everything they make is good.
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April 26, 2023
Dyker Heights, You Have Good News! 86th Street Rezoning Has Been Withdrawn
The rezoning project for 86th Street has been withdrawn. This is great news not only for for 85th Street and 14th Avenue residents, but for all of Dyker Heights.
What I saw from the Community Board 11 was the Brooklyn I have known my whole life – one neighbors have each others backs. I cried every time, residents from 85th Street spoke and cheered when each neighbor cited another reason why a rezoning was the wrong area. Each person who spoke showed how much they loved their community.
The owner must have realized how much of an impact it was having on his neighbors and is a good guy. He could have gone ahead with it as e already invested a lot. (Thank you Tommy!)
Some people are questioning if this is really the end of the rezoning project (it’s an election year) and they know our area has lobbyists winning because of Brannan. (See here and here)
Why didn’t Brannan attend the meeting? Because the people in that area have been gerrymandered out of his district. Don’t believe me? See the map here. They have no influence on the November election!
This is what gerrymandering looks like. District maps were changed to help politicians win elections.
Click here to see this map larger
Brooklyn pay close attention, this is not the only rezoning and your neighbors are going to need your help to fight.
The first man who spoke at the Community Board 11 Meeting lived around the New Utrecht Avenue rezoning. Many people don’t know about that one because the word wasn’t spread. Councilman Brannan never mentioned it in his newsletters. When people asked about it in its early stages, look how Brannan responded: See here.
The Shore Hill Rezoning is still happening. At the meeting last Spring, no one mentioned that 30% of the building was going to be for homeless people. (Spring Meeting notes) Community Board 11 should have shared that to the community, so people weren’t shocked by the Fall meeting when Jonathan Rose’s developers mentioned it. (See here) The home owners next to this building are fighting hard.
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April 26, 2023
Mathylde Frontus Not Thanked Publicly, Even Though Frontus Funded the Earth Day Event
Bay Ridge Cares has run events in a park beforeso it’s strange that they thanked Justin Brannan for doing the permits. Mathylde Frontus funded the event and was not thanked publically. Why?
It’s strange the organizations hung signs (see the middle one), but there was no mention of the former Assembly representative’s money funding the project.
From Here
A Bay Ridge resident shared photos and remarked on Facebook that the park was cleaned very well. That resident didn’t know that there was a “clean up” planned for the park.
Even stranger, Bay Ridge Cares and the Bay Ridge Environmental Group published photos of Brannan with them in the park. I spoke online to both groups about Justin Brannan failing to request a hearing for the East River Park activists. (Info here and here)
This is how the park activists were treated by Brannan’s staffers. They went to his office because Brannan would not return their calls. Brannan was head of the Committee that should have helped them. Brannan received extra money to be the head of that committee.
Brannan Zap from Woman at the Reel on Vimeo.
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April 25, 2023
Monday Morning April 24th – No One is Helping the Homeless on the R Train – 95th Street
Every day, Bay Ridge residents see homeless people in desperate need of help.
Bay Ridge residents take pictures and share them with the politicians, but nothing changes.
Last Fall, during election season, Senator Andrew Gounardes went in the subway and took photos with Justin Brannan. But the situation has not changed eight months later.
Sometimes there are people from NYC on the train to help the homeless, but they aren’t talking to the homeless when the train is in Bay Ridge. They are talking with each other in one car.
Elect people who care that homeless people aren’t getting help and want to do something about it.
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April 25, 2023
Beautiful Flowers in Bay Ridge – Shared by Matt

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Scroll to the right on the pictures above. Matt shared some cloudy day photos too!
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iHome Realty added a sign to their storefront at 9913 3rd Avenue, 718-500-2928

Congratulations to the broker and realtors!

This location used to be Top Tech Security.

Streetsblog saw Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis in Manhattan and found out that she received a lot of speeding tickets – some in school zones. (See here) Most of the tickets she received were in Manhattan. (See here)

They wrote about it here.

Community Board 11 held a virtual meeting tonight on Zoom. This meeting did not discuss the 86th Street and 14th Avenue building – that meeting was supposed to be on May 4th, but they shared the information above that the application was withdrawn.

I thought CB 11’s meeting was going to be horrible because the Brooklyn Borough President’s staffer was there with his slide deck.

It’s no secret that lobbyists win with Antonio Reynoso, but it was actually informative. (See Brooklyn’s Plan here)

The meeting highlighted some problems that I never saw Community Board 10 talk about.

First up was the filthy air near Owl’s Head Wastewater Treatment Plant and Sunset Park.

Look at the map above – poor Sunset Park has a Particle Mass of 2.5, which means it is dangerous for people’s health!

Also Reynoso’s staffer said that they want to make parking for residents in Brooklyn. While Reynoso supports cyclists, he drives a car. (See here)

Reynoso’s staffer breezed by the waterfront issues. Pay attention here – there’s way too many people who are interested in Brooklyn’s waterfront AND Andrew Gounardes made a waterfront district for himself.

Finally, they discussed housing, but the 86th Street and 14th Avenue property was not spoken about. This might be why people think the housing fight is not over.

Can you imagine that Justin Brannan did not include affordable units in the new buildings! All of those units and none of them have affordable apartments!

On May 18th, the Brooklyn Borough President is having a meeting about the plan for Brooklyn – information here.

Friday, April 28th

1) Assemblyman Lester Chang’s Office Grand Opening

2) PS 204’s PTA is having a Spring Fling Dinner Dance

3) GayRidge Fun Event at Status Q: Queer

4) Xaverian Dramatics performs Anything Goes

5) Brooklyn Bards Live – a Memorial for Donal Nolan from the Brooklyn Bards – 8:00 pm at Schnitzel Haus

One 2 Many will be at The Leif at 8:00 pm. 6725- 5th Avenue

Saturday, April 29th

1) Independent Bookstore Crawl ends

2) NYC Teens and My Natural Pet have a cat and kitten adoption event from 2-5 pm at 8318 – 5th Avenue.

3) Brooklyn Roots will have it’s first brunch.

4) Mommy & Me Photo Shoot at The Ridge Shop – sign up here.

5) St. Patrick’s Church has the Rhapsody Players performing at 7:30 pm.

5) Hom has Golden Girls Drag Bingo

6) Night at the Races for St. Athanasius Children’s Sports Program

Sunday, April 30th

1) Memorial Day Parade Fundraiser – 75th Street and 3rd Avenue – starts at 12:30 pm.

2) Troop 2151 Girl Scouts will be selling cookies outside of the Bookmark Shoppe at 8415 – 3rd Avenue.

3) Children’s Cupcake Decorating Class with Grandma’s Love and Annie Cakes at The Ridge Shop – register here

4) The Brooklyn Bards will play at Kitty Kiernan’s at 9715 – 3rd Avenue.

5) Tulip Sunday at Indigo Murphy’s on Ft. Hamilton Parkway and 71st Street.

Maimonides Emergency Room in Bay Ridge shared these pictures as they get ready for their May 9th Opening.

The MAIMO emergency department can provide:

Brooklyn, Stanley Ng is the best candidate to represent the new district. He has worked with both Democrats and Republicans because he’s the type of person who gets along with everyone. Vote for him if you want safer streets and stronger schools.

Some of the other candidates worked in current politicians office – don’t vote for them! Let’s get new people to help the community!

Stanely is a fighter and a winner. (See here)

Find out more about Stanley here.

Congratulations to the new owners of Marcela Cocina Mexican Restaurant at 7121 Fort Hamilton Pkwy.

This location is where My Three Sons Diner was for many years. It moved to moved to 6518 – 11th Avenue. (See photo)

Marcela’s interior was completely redone and the place looks beautiful. Sabrina shared this photo on FB and raved about the place! See their menu here.

The neighborhood knows these owners, as they are the nice people from Brothers Bagels on 71st Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway.

We know their new place is going to be great because everything they make is good.

The rezoning project for 86th Street has been withdrawn. This is great news not only for for 85th Street and 14th Avenue residents, but for all of Dyker Heights.

The owner must have realized how much of an impact it was having on his neighbors and is a good guy. He could have gone ahead with it as e already invested a lot. (Thank you Tommy!)

Some people are questioning if this is really the end of the rezoning project (it’s an election year) and they know our area has lobbyists winning because of Brannan. (See here and here)

Why didn’t Brannan attend the meeting? Because the people in that area have been gerrymandered out of his district. Don’t believe me? See the map here. They have no influence on the November election!

This is what gerrymandering looks like. District maps were changed to help politicians win elections.

Brooklyn pay close attention, this is not the only rezoning and your neighbors are going to need your help to fight.

Bay Ridge Cares has run events in a park beforeso it’s strange that they thanked Justin Brannan for doing the permits. Mathylde Frontus funded the event and was not thanked publically. Why?

It’s strange the organizations hung signs (see the middle one), but there was no mention of the former Assembly representative’s money funding the project.

A Bay Ridge resident shared photos and remarked on Facebook that the park was cleaned very well. That resident didn’t know that there was a “clean up” planned for the park.

Even stranger, Bay Ridge Cares and the Bay Ridge Environmental Group published photos of Brannan with them in the park. I spoke online to both groups about Justin Brannan failing to request a hearing for the East River Park activists. (Info here and here)

This is how the park activists were treated by Brannan’s staffers. They went to his office because Brannan would not return their calls. Brannan was head of the Committee that should have helped them. Brannan received extra money to be the head of that committee.

Every day, Bay Ridge residents see homeless people in desperate need of help.

Bay Ridge residents take pictures and share them with the politicians, but nothing changes.

Last Fall, during election season, Senator Andrew Gounardes went in the subway and took photos with Justin Brannan. But the situation has not changed eight months later.

Sometimes there are people from NYC on the train to help the homeless, but they aren’t talking to the homeless when the train is in Bay Ridge. They are talking with each other in one car.

Elect people who care that homeless people aren’t getting help and want to do something about it.

Scroll to the right on the pictures above. Matt shared some cloudy day photos too!