This afternoon, an artist was painting a mural of Pope Francis on the side of Little Cupcake Bakeshop on the corner of 91st Street and 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge.
The artist painted the background black and was blending colors for St. Francis’ robe.
Delivery Gorillas opened on 5th Avenue and 89th Street.A few months ago Gorilla was in the news for raising a billion. (Story) This week, they laid off some of their staff. (Story)
In mid-March this year, this location was another rapid delivery service called BuyK. We saw BuyK doing a lot of deliveries in Bay Ridge, so we were surprised they were out of business. Then we read the news and discovered that BuyK went out of business after sanctions were put on Russia. (See story here)
Andrea McGrath, who started Out of Darkness Candle Company in Bay Ridge was featured on Channel 1’s Around the Borough segment.
Andrea McGrath has been making candles for four years. See her website here.
McGrath explained that she does what she calls candle therapy. She takes 15 minutes to relax and light a candle. McGrath cares for family members, who deal with mental health issues.
**This park redesign will take years to beginbased on other parks in our area.
In October 2020, NYC Parks held a meeting for Owls Head Park redesign. (See here) Kids went to the meeting and told the designers what they wanted in the park. One boy asked for a bridge attached to a board (like a pirate ship).
Although the designers seemed excited by the children’s ideas, they returned in March 2021 with a generic design for the park and there was no pirate ship.(See here) Other parks in NYC have receive a ship.(See here)
Another year has passed and NYC Parks hasn’t started working on Owls Head Park. By the time Owls Head receives the new design, the children who designed it will be too old to play in the kid’s section of the playground.
In January, journalist, Katie Horan’s from The City Publication told NYC how the Nathan’s site at 650 – 86th Street was chosen for a middle school location in Bay Ridge. You can read it here.
Today, Katie Horan published a follow up of the storyof how Efthimios Zisimopoulos sold the Nathan’s property for $25 million to the School Construction Authority.(See here)
If you live in the area of this school and questioned why someone chose a busy street to put a school, you will be surprised to read what went down. Read the article here
Another school is coming to Bay Ridge on 5th Avenue (even though a Community Board 10 member revealed that the nearby school had empty seats).(See here)Efthimios Zisimopoulos (Tim Ziss) was also the owner of this building and he sold this property for $21 million. (Source)
It’s four months later and not one politician spoke about this, no reporter in our area reported about it and no one investigated it.
When you vote in August and November, remember who was silent and who allowed a location for a school to be chosen this way.
On the corner of 3rd Avenue and 94th Street is a store that looks like a bodega, but it is actually a specialty beer store.
This storefront expanded and recently opened the expansion. There are two entrances to this popular store where people purchase a variety of beer (including craft beers) and scratch off lottery tickets.
The expansion was formerly C&S Jewelers – Richie’s shop.
TheMTA addressed passenger safety todaybecause Daniel Enriquez was murdered on the Q train yesterday.
Janno Lieber, the head of the MTA seemed to understand. Lieber said, “People can’t resume normal life if just getting around is frightening.”
Jason Wilcox, the MTA Transit Chief said that there were743 major felony crimes in the subways from January through April this year.
Wilcox shared that this is a64% increase from the prior year due to more robberies, assaults and grand larcenies.
Why didn’t Senator Gounardes provide that information?
Gounardes strangely tweeted about “shootings being down” when everyone can see and FEEL that crime is up in the subway!
When shootings were up last year, why wasn’t Andrew Gounardes able to talk about it and address the issue with the former mayor?
The MTA said that54% of subway crime is on trains. 40% of that crime happens late at night and overnight.
Jason Wilcox said that they will have the Train Patrol Force – dedicated teams of police on the trains during the late hours.Mayor Adams said that police will now go after fare evaders and other crimes.
Wilcox seemed honest and determined to deal with the problems in the MTA. It’s good to see the MTA will be stepping up patrols now that Summer months are here.
