Open Mic at Kitty Kiernans’ Thursday 6/9

On Thursday, June 9th, you can be a Rockstar and perform at Kitty Kiernans’ Open Mic in Bay Ridge. It starts at 9:00 pm.

Kitty Kiernans is at 9713 – 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge.

You survived the pandemic, so you might as well have fun. You can sing or you can learn to do this. : )

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Tannousis’ Bill to Recall NYC District Attorneys

Assemblyman Michael Tannousis and others put together an interesting bill that will allow a recall election so that communities can get rid of District Attorneys who aren’t doing their jobs.

While this recall bill may sound great to those who don’t like bail reform, don’t be tricked by this politician’s late bill submission. The legislative session has ended until next year.

If Mike Tannnousis wanted the recall bill to be heard, he would have introduced it by March.

Tannousis holds a position in which a lot of people aren’t watching him. If you were watching him, you would see he submits a lot of bills to name silly days like: Proclaim April 11th, as Submarine Day in the State of New York (see here). There’s way too many of these fluff bills. You can see his bills here

I’m going to be honest with you, I’m not a big fan of Mike Tannousis. Tannousis represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, so he should have made legislation to help the home owners in both communities with their property taxes.

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Gounardes Refused to Do Covered Bike Lanes And So Many People Have Been Hurt

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New Utrecht High School-Threat on Social Media

New Utrecht High School received threats on Omeagle – it’s strange that politicians and the press didn’t share information about it. (News here)

The school and the police took precautions. Hopefully, they catch the person so they don’t do it again and cause everyone to worry.

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Brooklyn Photographer – JjlHawk

Beautiful photo on the pier in Bay Ridge by JjlHawk. See other pictures around Brooklyn from this photographer here.

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Other NY’ers Are Concerned About Crime Too

NY’ers are concerned about crime, especially in the subways since there have been more incidents of people being pushed into the tracks. (See article)

A lighter note….some people can make pigeons look beautiful in photos (See here)

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RIP Deshui Wang – Killed on 65th Street

Deshui Wang was killed on June 1st on 65th Street and 4th Avenue at 7:15 pm. (See here)

Not one politician share this or even had any thoughts or prayers for the 70 year-old-man.

If the politicians talk to the 68th Precinct, they would have known this information. Or maybe they are immune to it, and they don’t care any more.

The press could only share the information today because the police didn’t tell them until today.

Deshui Wang was killed by a 53-year-old man who the news stated “blew the red light in his jeep.” Deshui was brought to the hospital, but died two hours later. (Source) Another article stated that he died on the scene. (Source)

The driver was issued summonses for “failure to obey a traffic control device” and failure to yield to a pedestrian, both traffic tickets. That’s it.

This senior citizen lived all of these years and survived COVID-19 – it’s not right that he died this way. We don’t want to see this happen to any more seniors or people in our community. Residents have said that this is a scary intersection.

RIP Deshui Wang. Prayers for Deshui’s family.

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Bay Ridge Ballet Dance Camp For 5-8 Yr. Olds

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Andrew Gounardes Thought A Panel Could Explain to Bay Ridge Why He Ignored Street Problems in Bay Ridge For Years

Andrew Gounardes has represented Bay Ridge for years, but he has never taken on street safety, even though he said he would for years.

See video here

Tonight’s meeting format was ridiculous. There should not have been a panel for what the two politicians and the police should have been able to discuss and handle.

Andrew Gounardes does not know how to prepare and run a meeting. Gounardes gave out cards for people to write questions and then he barely answered any of the questions from the cards.

Gounardes told the audience, “We are going to have breakout groups and answer questions. At no point at this meeting did Andrew Gounardes make any breakout groups to answer questions.

Keith Bray, the Brooklyn Borough Commissioner from the Department of Transportation talked about people getting signs by calling 311. There was no reason for Keith Bray to be at this meeting.

Bay Ridge parents easily saw Bray was there as a time filler. One smart mother asked Gounardes to address the issues in our community, so time didn’t run out.

At 6:50 pm, Gounardes started reading statistics, instead of providing them to the audience on the screen behind him or on a handout. No preparation was done for this meeting because it wasn’t important to Andrew.

At 6:55 pm, Captain Tolson spoke and “did the usual.” Tolson talked about how collisions are down this month. Tolson never says when the numbers are up. Captain Tolson said there have been no fatalities. He said , speeding and texting are the number one problems.

Trailers on Poly Place

Captain Tolson said writing summons doesn’t work for these vehicles. The captain sounded very sympathetic to the truck companies because there is nowhere for them to park, except at JFK.

Captain Tolson said they can’t boot these vehicles because they have to have a certain number of summons.

Captain Tolson said he was talking to the DOT to have angled parking. Tolson told Bay Ridge this months ago and it never happened. At this point, it was 7:05 pm and nothing was accomplished.

Brannan said they changed the signs on Poly Place and he spoke as if he thought HE DID something big. Parents kept him honest and called out that the signs weren’t useful. Brannan also was sympathetic to the truck drivers and wanted to give them parking on 58th Street on the pier. Keith Bray said trucks were parking throughout NYC.

311 Calls Go Unanswered

People complained that no one comes from when they call 311. One man said he called 311 for three days this weekend and nothing happened.

Gounardes wants people to call 311 and then call his office with the incident number from 311. Andrew said he is sorry he can’t help you if you don’t do that. A woman stood up and said that she has called 911 and then Brannan’s office and nothing has changed.

The officer with Captain Tolson offered to help. *This sounded hopeful. When a mother in the community asked for the officer’s number, he told them to call 311.

Another woman said the police drive by and do nothing. Captain Tolson said that the NYPD are not going to chase scooters because that will cause an accident.

The electric bikes do not have to be registered.

Motorcycles and scooters are riding on the sidewalk. One mother explained how dangerous this was. Parents clapped for her. How do we get that mother to run for NYC Council? She was a great voice for this community!

ONE MAN SAID THE MOST TELLING THING….THESE GUYS ARE TWO YEARS TOO LATE. At that point it was 7:30 pm and no solutions had been reached – people came out to get help and were frustrated.

Gounardes and Brannan lost control and people started to get roudy. A man complained and held up this yellow sign:

Enforcement

One woman said, there is no enforcement. Captain Tolson was offended. She continued, “We love you. We don’t understand why you are not around.” At 7:36 pm. an officer with Captain Tolson said there will be a shift and focus on ebikes. (This was the only time there was any talk about change.)

Speed Cameras

Andrew Gounardes did not come prepared with the information about the local speed cameras. He spoke about generic information about speed cameras. Brannan said he hasn’t gotten another ticket since the article was printed.

At 7:40 pm, Andrew Gounardes said that the security said they must be out of the building by 8:00 pm. (*Anyone running a meeting would have reserved the place until 9:00 pm, so all questions could be answered).

Drag Racing

Captain Tolson that the 69th Precinct gave out 12 summons on June 4th. Highway police also issued summons.

Many residents said that they contacted Councilman Brannan’s office and nothing has been done about problems on their street. Gounardes said, “We will follow up.”

** Many people didn’t know about the meeting because Gounardes didn’t inform them in a mailing.

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Xaverian Summer Sports Camp in Bay Ridge

Xaverian Summer Sports Camp https://www.xaverian.org/ath…/summer-xaverian-sports-camps

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Brian Fox is Running for District 26’s Senate Seat

Brian Fox announced this afternoon that he is running for the District 26 Senate seat and challenging the Champion of bail reform, Andrew Gounardes.

If you saw tonight’s meeting with the two politicians from Bay Ridge, you can see most people have lost faith in the current politicians, as they don’t take action or stand up for the community.

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The Streets Are No Safer Eleven Years Later

My student died eleven years ago today while riding her bike, just outside of this community on 62nd Street and 21st Avenue. (Story here)

The reality of the streets in our community is that they are not safer than they were eleven years ago.

Politicians have played games and wasted the money from this community. Bay Ridge, vote for people who will use the community’s money to make the community safe for the children who live here.

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