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December 4, 2022
Events in Bay Ridge This Week 12/5 – 12/10
Tuesday, December 6th

1) St. Pat’s Catholic Academy invites everyone to see The Living Nativity performed by the second grade class on the lawn of the church at 9511 – 4th Avenue. Show times: 12:45 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:15 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:15 pm.
Wednesday, December 7th
Sip and shop at Kitchening at 8003 – 3rd Avenue. Drinks, light bites, shopping and prizes.
Thursday, December 8th
2) 90’s Hits at Hobrah at 8618 – 3rd Avenue 7:00 pm – Closing
3) Pinot’s Palette paint Christmas in the City at 7518 – 13th Avenue 7:30 – 9:30 pm. Register here
Friday, December 9th
1) Fort Hamilton Army Base Tree Lighting & Holiday Market Spectacular 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. If you want to go, you need to : Register here. Santa is here for pictures too.
2) COME ONE AND COME ALL- Bringing the community together for a Block Party, Tree Lighting, Singalong, Shopping with vendors, Popcorn & HotCocoa. Raffle Baskets. DJ & Dancing. It will be a fun night! Friday, Dec 9th at 5pm 15th Avenue and 81st Street.
3) Cellary at 8916 – 3rd Avenue is having a wine tasting from 5-7 pm.
4) Maria Alliah is performing at South Brooklyn Foundry 6909 – 3rd Avenue from 8 – 11 pm.
Saturday, December 10th
1) Ornament Making Workshop at The Ridge – Children and Adult Sessions. (2 glasses of wine at the Adult workshop). Sign up here
2) Pictures with Santa at Young Love Studio on 83rd Street in Bay Ridge. (Register here)
Sue’s Christmas Cookie Pop-up will be at Young Love’s Studio too!
3) Take photos with Santa at Schnitzel Haus at 7319 – 5th Avenue from 1-4 pm. Take a Picture with Santa on the beautiful backdrop. A $10 donation/All proceeds to go to Live on NY.
4) GOLDEN GIRLS DRAG BINGO at Hom.
5) Santa will be at Ben Bay Realty on 13th Avenue and 83rd. Street. Have your child’s picture taken with Santa!
6) Cherry Bomb Holiday Bash at The Leif – starts at 7:00 pm at 6725 – 5th Avenue
Sunday, December 11th
1) Nutcracker Bake Sale at Bay Ridge Ballet at 127 Bay Ridge Avenue from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. (They sell the nutcracker rice crispy treats seen below)
2) Our Lady of Angels craft for children after mass.
3) Kings Bay Y Holiday Market 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
4) Martin McQuade 16th Annual Greenhouse Christmas Show at 7717 – 3rd Avenue with Dan Furman on Piano 6-9 pm. Call 718-833-8200 for a reservation.
5) Madd Jac with Da Genius are performing at The Leif starting at 4:00 pm.

6) Delia’s Lounge at 9224 3rd Avenue from 7:30 – 9:30 pm – The Tom Blatt Project is playing.
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December 4, 2022
Landlords Opposed to NYC Council Taking Away Background Checks Rally – Intro 632

On Monday, December 5th, there will be a rally on the steps of City Hall Steps to oppose Bill 632.
Certain types of arrests should not affect an application, but that decision should be made by landlords not NYC Council Members!
Landlords, co-op and management companies will not be able to know if an applicant has committed a serious crime or not.
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December 4, 2022
Changes to the Express Bus in Bay Ridge – Register for the CB 10 Meeting on February 9th
The MTA is making changes to bus routes in NYC. (Read about it here)
*Years ago, every politician took credit for the bus routes, BUT NOW not one has told Bay Ridge about these changes or announced this meeting! The info is being shared by neighbors who use the Express Bus.
For the express buses, one of the changes they are proposing is moving the Senator Street stop to 3rd and the Bay Ridge Avenue intersection, which is already crowded. Wait times will increase for the X37 during peak hours.
The MTA are removing some stops to make the buses run a little faster. They lost drivers during COVID, so they cannot add more buses.
You can see the proposed changes here.
Community Board 10 will be discussing these changes at the February 9, 2023 meeting at 6:30 – 8:30 pm. You can register for the meeting here.
You can attend this meeting here
Meeting ID: 872 2144 3989
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December 4, 2022
Stanley Ng, A Man With Solutions Is Running for NYC Council in District 43
New NYC Council districts were created this year. A new Asian district was created (seen in bright blue in the map below).
Bay Ridge is in the green monster, Gerrymanderzilla District 47.
Stanley Ng is a man with solutions!
Stanley has been fighting against broken systems for years. (Look at the date on this) Racists and segregationists won’t have a change with Ng. Remember Ng was there to fight against this mess.
Ng has been an advocate for high quality schools in Brooklyn for children for many years. He was a member of District 20’s Community Education Council. (See here)
Stanley Ng is not a politician, so I am glad to see this community builder running for office!
A quick search will show that Stanley has worked with various politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) because he is a leader and someone who believes in helping his community. He’s fought against Asian hate, when many leaders in our area didn’t!
In 2021, Ng was honored by Eric Adams for distributing food to people in need during the pandemic.
Last May, Stanley Ng asked what most people in our area have asked, “Is there a reason why commercial trucks cannot be towed in our area of South Brooklyn?”
I know Stanley Ng (we are not friends, but I know him). He’s a good father and a good man. He will make a great councilman because he is a community builder.
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December 3, 2022
If You Need a Fantastic Santa in Bay Ridge
The son-in-law of this beautiful Santa announced that he is available for Christmas parties, office parties, house visits for the kids and photos ops.
He is available 7 days a week in Park Slope and Windsor Terrace and other areas via appointment.
Contact Sean here to book this Santa.
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December 3, 2022
Bay Ridge Girl Scouts & NYPD Doing Good
Donated toys to Heart to Heart today for a toy drive held by @NYPD68Pct and Girl Scout Troop 2763 for Toys for Tots. Thank you for holding such a generous donation drive for children in need in our community. You just made their Christmas a lot brighter. pic.twitter.com/zcZDyj4cmY
— Avery Pereira (@AveryPereira) December 3, 2022

Avery shared this great photo with the Bay Ridge Girl Scouts & 68th Precinct police collecting gifts for children at Heart to Heart in Bay Ridge. It’s great that this business allowed them to share their location too!
Heart to Heart is a great local store in Bay Ridge to get help picking a gift for someone who you are unsure what to get. They have a lot of nice things, and the staff is fantastic. 9006 – 3rd Avenue.
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December 3, 2022
Bay Ridge Weed Shop Thief Arrested
Around 7:40 pm, a thief robbed this smoke shop.
The thief got on the R train at 86th Street towards Manhattan.
The police caught up with him at Nevins Street and after a foot pursuit, arrested him. (Info here)
It’s good the 68th Precinct was able to catch the thief, but he probably was released, so does it matter that they caught him?
Andrew Gounardes and other state representatives didn’t put in the work needed for the rollout of weed distribution. Community Board 10 sent a letter to the state legislature to make changes. CB 10 shouldn’t have had to do Gounardes’ jobs.
Too bad Justin Brannan took so long to speak out against the illegal weed shops. Plenty of robberies happened at these shops and Brannan didn’t approach the issue until this Fall. Maybe Brannan is realizing that the neighborhood isn’t better with 22 smoke shops.
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December 3, 2022
Owls Head Park Tree Lighting In Bay Ridge 12/7
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December 3, 2022
Rally Outside of Peter Abbate’s Office on 12/6

Will Peter Abbate be back from Puerto Rico by Tuesday for this rally? A journalist reported that Abbate is having a fundraiser in Puerto Rico! The article says Abbate already has $700,000 – why would he continue to fundraise? (Article)
How much money did Abbate use to run his election? Abbate could have run commercials on primetime television against Lester, but he barely campaigned because he thought he had this election in the bag.
The Vote Out happened and no one cared where Lester Chang lived because Peter Abbate didn’t help them.
Abbate had the clear advantage with Democrats in the area, but even Democrats voted against him:
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December 3, 2022
Fire on Ridge Blvd. in Bay Ridge.
There was a fire around 2:00 am at 7420 Ridge Blvd. in Bay Ridge. (See story)
One person was taken to Staten Island hospital for smoke inhalation Why not to NYU Lutheran Hospital? Can a person pick the hospital they want to go to?
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December 2, 2022
Sheba Hookah Lounge (Where Chill Lounge Was)
Sheba Hookah Lounge – I just noticed their sign at 7810 – 5th Avenue.
Chill Hookah Lounge had trouble in 2021 and then finally sold in August 2022. (Info)
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December 2, 2022
Andrew Gounardes and Bobby Carroll Played Politics Instead of Helping the Homeless in Bklyn

On November 11th, Adam White was arrested for removing a piece of plastic from around the license plate of a Chevy SUV parked near St. Marks Avenue. The other driver called the police. White was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.
White’s hearing was expected to be today, December 1st, but yesterday the Brooklyn District Attorney dropped the charges against White. Why did the Brooklyn DA take so long to drop the charges?
Streetsblog printed stories about the Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn DA dropping the charges against White yesterday.
Kathy Park Price from Transalt knew that the charges were dropped, but Transalt STILL wanted to have the presser. **They put their presser at 11:00 am, before the Clean Slate Presser at 12:00 pm (See here)
Today, Gounardes and Bobby Carroll should have dropped out of this presser and helped the homeless men on the R train! (See here) They are representatives for Brooklyn residents not staff for Transalt.
Watch the videos below – Andrew didn’t share it! Gounardes wasn’t able to stand up against his friends going through red light cameras (Justin Brannan, Brad Lander and Jumaane Williams), but when Transalt is next to him he talks a good game and pretends he is a street advocate.
>@agounardes to plate defacers: “Pay your fees. Pay your tolls. You’re not better than anybody else. What @adamlaw50 did was not a crime. What those other people [the plate defacers] were doing was a crime.” pic.twitter.com/VHcOFcRUeL
— Steve Vaccaro (@BicyclesOnly) December 1, 2022

Gounardes said it wasn’t a crime for Adam to remove the plastic around another person’s license plate. That can’t be correct – else people would be helping themselves to parts on other people’s cars every day.

Why didn’t Gounardes and Caroll meet with the police last month and help resolve this? We should not see politicians at pressers by groups going after the police like this! The politician’s job is to work for the community and resolve issues!
The man standing with Gounardes is holding a sign that is not true. The police have never said, “Go ahead, hide your license plate.
Picture from Video
Today was a picture-taking moment for Gounardes and Caroll.
Who are these politicians representing?
Transportation Alternatives. The man has already been freed!! Instead of helping Brooklyn, they are playing politics for a picture.
On Twitter, Gounardes mentions his bill that went nowhere because Gounardes spent his time pushing a lobbyist bill for red light cameras (See here) instead of getting this bill out of committee. (See here)
Transportation Alternatives have lobbyists – the homeless men don’t.
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Tuesday, December 6th

1) St. Pat’s Catholic Academy invites everyone to see The Living Nativity performed by the second grade class on the lawn of the church at 9511 – 4th Avenue. Show times: 12:45 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:15 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:15 pm.

Wednesday, December 7th

Sip and shop at Kitchening at 8003 – 3rd Avenue. Drinks, light bites, shopping and prizes.

Thursday, December 8th

2) 90’s Hits at Hobrah at 8618 – 3rd Avenue 7:00 pm – Closing

3) Pinot’s Palette paint Christmas in the City at 7518 – 13th Avenue 7:30 – 9:30 pm. Register here

Friday, December 9th

1) Fort Hamilton Army Base Tree Lighting & Holiday Market Spectacular 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. If you want to go, you need to : Register here. Santa is here for pictures too.

2) COME ONE AND COME ALL- Bringing the community together for a Block Party, Tree Lighting, Singalong, Shopping with vendors, Popcorn & HotCocoa. Raffle Baskets. DJ & Dancing. It will be a fun night! Friday, Dec 9th at 5pm 15th Avenue and 81st Street.

3) Cellary at 8916 – 3rd Avenue is having a wine tasting from 5-7 pm.

4) Maria Alliah is performing at South Brooklyn Foundry 6909 – 3rd Avenue from 8 – 11 pm.

Saturday, December 10th

1) Ornament Making Workshop at The Ridge – Children and Adult Sessions. (2 glasses of wine at the Adult workshop). Sign up here

2) Pictures with Santa at Young Love Studio on 83rd Street in Bay Ridge. (Register here)

Sue’s Christmas Cookie Pop-up will be at Young Love’s Studio too!

3) Take photos with Santa at Schnitzel Haus at 7319 – 5th Avenue from 1-4 pm. Take a Picture with Santa on the beautiful backdrop. A $10 donation/All proceeds to go to Live on NY.

4) GOLDEN GIRLS DRAG BINGO at Hom.

5) Santa will be at Ben Bay Realty on 13th Avenue and 83rd. Street. Have your child’s picture taken with Santa!

6) Cherry Bomb Holiday Bash at The Leif – starts at 7:00 pm at 6725 – 5th Avenue

Sunday, December 11th

1) Nutcracker Bake Sale at Bay Ridge Ballet at 127 Bay Ridge Avenue from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. (They sell the nutcracker rice crispy treats seen below)

2) Our Lady of Angels craft for children after mass.

3) Kings Bay Y Holiday Market 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.

4) Martin McQuade 16th Annual Greenhouse Christmas Show at 7717 – 3rd Avenue with Dan Furman on Piano 6-9 pm. Call 718-833-8200 for a reservation.

5) Madd Jac with Da Genius are performing at The Leif starting at 4:00 pm.

6) Delia’s Lounge at 9224 3rd Avenue from 7:30 – 9:30 pm – The Tom Blatt Project is playing.

On Monday, December 5th, there will be a rally on the steps of City Hall Steps to oppose Bill 632.

Certain types of arrests should not affect an application, but that decision should be made by landlords not NYC Council Members!

Landlords, co-op and management companies will not be able to know if an applicant has committed a serious crime or not.

The MTA is making changes to bus routes in NYC. (Read about it here)

*Years ago, every politician took credit for the bus routes, BUT NOW not one has told Bay Ridge about these changes or announced this meeting! The info is being shared by neighbors who use the Express Bus.

For the express buses, one of the changes they are proposing is moving the Senator Street stop to 3rd and the Bay Ridge Avenue intersection, which is already crowded. Wait times will increase for the X37 during peak hours.

The MTA are removing some stops to make the buses run a little faster. They lost drivers during COVID, so they cannot add more buses.

You can see the proposed changes here.

Community Board 10 will be discussing these changes at the February 9, 2023 meeting at 6:30 – 8:30 pm. You can register for the meeting here.

You can attend this meeting here

Meeting ID: 872 2144 3989

New NYC Council districts were created this year. A new Asian district was created (seen in bright blue in the map below).

Bay Ridge is in the green monster, Gerrymanderzilla District 47.

Stanley Ng is a man with solutions!

Stanley has been fighting against broken systems for years. (Look at the date on this) Racists and segregationists won’t have a change with Ng. Remember Ng was there to fight against this mess.

Ng has been an advocate for high quality schools in Brooklyn for children for many years. He was a member of District 20’s Community Education Council. (See here)

Stanley Ng is not a politician, so I am glad to see this community builder running for office!

A quick search will show that Stanley has worked with various politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) because he is a leader and someone who believes in helping his community. He’s fought against Asian hate, when many leaders in our area didn’t!

In 2021, Ng was honored by Eric Adams for distributing food to people in need during the pandemic.

Last May, Stanley Ng asked what most people in our area have asked, “Is there a reason why commercial trucks cannot be towed in our area of South Brooklyn?”

I know Stanley Ng (we are not friends, but I know him). He’s a good father and a good man. He will make a great councilman because he is a community builder.

The son-in-law of this beautiful Santa announced that he is available for Christmas parties, office parties, house visits for the kids and photos ops.

He is available 7 days a week in Park Slope and Windsor Terrace and other areas via appointment.

Contact Sean here to book this Santa.

Avery shared this great photo with the Bay Ridge Girl Scouts & 68th Precinct police collecting gifts for children at Heart to Heart in Bay Ridge. It’s great that this business allowed them to share their location too!

Heart to Heart is a great local store in Bay Ridge to get help picking a gift for someone who you are unsure what to get. They have a lot of nice things, and the staff is fantastic. 9006 – 3rd Avenue.

Around 7:40 pm, a thief robbed this smoke shop.

The thief got on the R train at 86th Street towards Manhattan.

The police caught up with him at Nevins Street and after a foot pursuit, arrested him. (Info here)

It’s good the 68th Precinct was able to catch the thief, but he probably was released, so does it matter that they caught him?

Andrew Gounardes and other state representatives didn’t put in the work needed for the rollout of weed distribution. Community Board 10 sent a letter to the state legislature to make changes. CB 10 shouldn’t have had to do Gounardes’ jobs.

Too bad Justin Brannan took so long to speak out against the illegal weed shops. Plenty of robberies happened at these shops and Brannan didn’t approach the issue until this Fall. Maybe Brannan is realizing that the neighborhood isn’t better with 22 smoke shops.

Will Peter Abbate be back from Puerto Rico by Tuesday for this rally? A journalist reported that Abbate is having a fundraiser in Puerto Rico! The article says Abbate already has $700,000 – why would he continue to fundraise? (Article)

How much money did Abbate use to run his election? Abbate could have run commercials on primetime television against Lester, but he barely campaigned because he thought he had this election in the bag.

The Vote Out happened and no one cared where Lester Chang lived because Peter Abbate didn’t help them.

Abbate had the clear advantage with Democrats in the area, but even Democrats voted against him:

There was a fire around 2:00 am at 7420 Ridge Blvd. in Bay Ridge. (See story)

One person was taken to Staten Island hospital for smoke inhalation Why not to NYU Lutheran Hospital? Can a person pick the hospital they want to go to?

Sheba Hookah Lounge – I just noticed their sign at 7810 – 5th Avenue.

Chill Hookah Lounge had trouble in 2021 and then finally sold in August 2022. (Info)

On November 11th, Adam White was arrested for removing a piece of plastic from around the license plate of a Chevy SUV parked near St. Marks Avenue. The other driver called the police. White was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

White’s hearing was expected to be today, December 1st, but yesterday the Brooklyn District Attorney dropped the charges against White. Why did the Brooklyn DA take so long to drop the charges?

Streetsblog printed stories about the Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn DA dropping the charges against White yesterday.

Kathy Park Price from Transalt knew that the charges were dropped, but Transalt STILL wanted to have the presser. **They put their presser at 11:00 am, before the Clean Slate Presser at 12:00 pm (See here)

Today, Gounardes and Bobby Carroll should have dropped out of this presser and helped the homeless men on the R train! (See here) They are representatives for Brooklyn residents not staff for Transalt.

Watch the videos below – Andrew didn’t share it! Gounardes wasn’t able to stand up against his friends going through red light cameras (Justin Brannan, Brad Lander and Jumaane Williams), but when Transalt is next to him he talks a good game and pretends he is a street advocate.

Gounardes said it wasn’t a crime for Adam to remove the plastic around another person’s license plate. That can’t be correct – else people would be helping themselves to parts on other people’s cars every day.

Why didn’t Gounardes and Caroll meet with the police last month and help resolve this? We should not see politicians at pressers by groups going after the police like this! The politician’s job is to work for the community and resolve issues!