To Our Sweet Gardening Neighbor Who Shares

Suzanne shared the photo above.

A very sweet man in Bay Ridge grows plants to give away. He puts them in pots and then places the pots on a bookcase with a sign for people to take a plant. On Mother’s Day he did it again! So sweet!

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Another Woman is Raped in Bay Ridge and the Community is Silent

The sixth rape for 2023 in the 68th Precinct happened on May 7th at 2:00 pm (or was reported on May 7th.)

The NYPD noted the crime happened on 85th Street and Ft. Hamilton Parkway.

These are the locations for the other rapes in our community since the start of the year:

You can see this information yourself by going here. Then pull down Brooklyn South and the 68th Precinct.

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CB 10 Approved Open Streets at PS 185

PS 185 requested to have an Open Street on Ridge Blvd because they currently have only 30% of their schoolyard accessible due to all the scaffolding out back.

The paperwork said the Open Street was good for four hours a day. The principal said the children would be outside from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.

Community Board 10 thought closing Ridge Blvd was better than closing 87th Street because there are no driveways on Ridge Blvd (across from the school is apartment buildings.)

The principal said that there will be barricades and four parents at each end of the street.

Community Board 10 informed the neighbors of this school and they received only positive feedback from the neighbors.

The majority of Community Board 10 voted in favor of PS 185 having an Open Street. This Open Street program is for one year.

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Viking Fest at Owls Head Park on May 2024

On Saturday, May 20, Viking Fest will take place at Owls Head Park from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in Bay Ridge. This event is free!

Enjoy a program featuring cultures connecting to the VIKINGS!

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The Furnace Hot Yoga Opens 6/2/23

The Furnace Hot Yoga & Pilates opens on June 2nd at 8302 – 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

You can’t miss the bright orange building on the corner of 83rd Street! See them setting up here.

Fill out the form here if you want to receive updates from The Furnace (classes and meeting times).

There was a bikram yoga business at this location for at least 10 years before the pandemic. (See 2011 photo)

The board and batten in this yoga studio looks beautiful!

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Walking Tour from Coney Island to Bay Ridge

Dutchmazz shared the video above on his walk around Coney Island and Bay Ridge.

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Filming in Bay Ridge – Wednesday – 5/17

On Thursday, May 17th from 6:00 am – 8:00 pm they will be filming at Owl’s Head Park for a commercial for Tim Hortons.

Parking will be restricted on Colonial Road between 69th Street and Senator Street in Bay Ridge.

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Next Meeting About 9000 Shore Road – Jonathan Rose Property 5/22 or 5/23

There will a hearing about 9000 Shore Road on either May 22nd or May 23rd.

Josephine from CB 10 said that Jonathan Rose’s attorney sent Community Board 10 some updates this week. She didn’t say what the updates were.

Residents in the area hired an engineering firm to do a street parking analysis because the developers were minimizing the parking problems.

Ninety residents responded to Community Board 10’s survey about the sewage backups in the area.

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Steve Asked CB 10 For a Crosswalk Outside the Recreation Area on Ft. Hamilton Parkway

At tonight’s Community Board 10 Meeting, Steve asked Community Board 10 to put a crosswalk or a sign for people to slow down near the recreation center on Fort Hamilton Pkwy and 99th Street.

Steve said drivers do not slow down when people are in the street.

Steve noted that special needs children, teenagers and seniors use the recreation center.

It was a great recommendation. This street can be very quiet or it can get very busy. A crosswalk would be useful there (it’s surprising one wasn’t installed there awhile ago).

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Community Board 10 Voted Down the High School Because of the Poor Location

Councilman Brannan wanted to put a high school on Ovington Avenue, where the yellow arrow is in the picture above. There are already three schools on that block.

Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge needs an annex because it currently has 4,580 students at the school. Only 500 students are in the zoned program for students in the area.

One CB 10 member thought it was strange that members wanted to make sure that another school helped Ft. Hamilton High School.

Community Board 10 wanted the Department of Education to choose the Santander Bank location and build an annex to help Fort Hamilton. The president of the Community Education Council in our area gave alternate locations in areas of District 20 where schools were needed.

One person asked who owns this building. CB 10 said, “NYC owns it.” This was not said at any other meeting. The site should be given to PS 30 because they are next door and the school is renting space in an apartment building.

Community Board 10 Members voted overwhelmingly against the school because they had only 45 days to respond and the project manager was not able to answer many questions about the new building.

Most of Community Board 10 voted against the high school at this location. One CB 10 member who voted for the new school spoke out during the meeting, but he didn’t know that Ft. Hamilton was still a great school.

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Pickleball Park at Leif Erickson Park in Bay Ridge

I had no idea there was a Pickleball Park at Leif Erickson on 66th Street and 8th Avenue (across the street from the old Dustbowl and diagonally across the street from Park Asia).

Seven hundred people play at this park. There’s even a Leif Ericson Pickleball Club. (See their website here). They even had a Halloween Pickleball event. (See here)

People of all ages in NYC are obsessed with pickleball.

At the Community Board 10 meeting on Monday, May 15th, Joseph W. requested for the Pickleball Park at Leif Ericson to be renamed Peter Lovett Pickleball Park. Lovett died in 2021. (Info)

Joseph W explained that during Covid, Peter Lovett was the manager at Ft. Hamilton Recreation Center and he wanted seniors to stay active. Peter went to the park every morning and set up the temporary nets, so everyone could play.

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Migrants Are Staying at P.S. 188 in Coney Island

At least 75 migrants are sleeping on cots in PS 188’s gym in Coney Island. They are only supposed to be there temporarily.

If the school was closed, no one would care. But the students are using the school and parents need to feel that their children are safe at school. (See video from parent here)

The NYC Comptroller, Brad Lander went on television to say that PS 188 in Coney Island was a good place for asylum seekers. Why is the Comptroller of NYC commenting? Why doesn’t NYC have someone who is more understanding towards the parents?

CBS shared that some parents are refusing to send their children to school. (See here)

Police are protecting the area and news trucks are outside the school finding out parent’s reactions.

Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis was on the news speaking out against hotels and schools being turned in housing for the migrants. She mentioned Brannan.

Then Brannan snapped back on Twitter and blamed Malliotakis.

On May 12th, Brannan wrote on Twitter that families were being placed at PS 188, which wasn’t true. (See videos)

More schools’ gyms are being used tonight. (See news)

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