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March 30, 2022
Bay Ridge Tennis Academy for Ages 3-99
Dawn Fox is teaching tennis in Bay Ridge!
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March 30, 2022
Fundraiser for MS at The Bean Post on Friday
March is Multiple Sclerosis awareness month.
On Friday, April 1st beginning at 6:00 pm, there will be a fundraiser for the National MS Society at The Bean Post 7525 – 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge.
A donation of $20 includes a Bud or Bud Light, a t-shirt and a raffle ticket. The raffle tickets are to a Mets/Yankees game and a NY Rangers game at Madison Square Garden.
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March 29, 2022
Why Didn’t Brigid Bergin Include Councilman Justin Brannan’s Tweet In Her Story?
Brigid Bergin, a journalist for Gothamist, wrote about the topic of Politicians Defunding the Police (yes now in March 2022). Bergin also created an audio clip about Councilman Justin Brannan. (Hear audio clip)
Why did Bergin fail to include Justin Brannan’s tweet inwhich he responded to the question about Defunding the Police in June 2020?
Tonight, I responded to Bergin and everyone who shared her story.
Bergin didn’t respond, but many people did. Many didn’t know Brannan wrote that on Twitter!
Over the years, I’ve written to a lot of journalists, both publicly and privately. Most respond and some change their stories. Some realize that their reporting matters to our community (one spoke to me on the day of his daughter’s wedding). Some just don’t care.
When Justin Brannan responded, “Ya I’m in” to the question about defunding the police, the 68th Precinct saw that tweet. Think about how degrading that was for the officers in our community to see Brannan write that. Brannan had a responsibility to change the language and he didn’t because he was playing politics.
In the audio clip on Gothamist, Bergin plays Brannan’s actual vote. Then Bergin says that cuts to the NYPD amounted to just over three million dollars. Justin Brannan’s vote that year took money away from the police.
Then Bergin quickly said that NYC Council gave back the money the following year.
NYC Council wasn’t vocal about giving money back to the NYPD. We didn’t hear anyone talk about the police being refunding or that a mistake was made.
NYC spiraled downward after the words “Defund the Police Echoed Through the City.” It killed the morale of the police.
Bergin was surprised that a home on 79th Street still has a sign up. We were all shocked to see Justin Brannan’s tweet.
We understand why the sign is still up. When we voted for Brannan, we thought he would do the right thing for our community. We are angry that Brannan wrote this bill the first month he was in office for lobbyists. And now we are stuck with the defunder.
In December 2021, Justin Brannan and a group of NYC Council members were on Channel 1’s NYC Speaker Forum. The host, Errol Louis brought up “defunding the police” and spoke about the budget being changed for the police. Not one candidate said, “No I didn’t defund the police.” They all knew they voted for a budget to move money away from the police. Errol Louis asked about it because he knew that the defunding the police discourse changed our city.
Finally, Bergin failed to acknowledge that our current mayor ran and won on a platform of supporting the police and street safety because he understood what people in NYC were feeling after NYC Council defunded the NYPD. Mayor Adams went to the NYPD and has publicly spoken on backing them to try to reverse what was allowed by the former mayor.
Many people hearing, “defund the police” think that people don’t want the police or policing in their community. There are actual politicians who want to eliminate the police. NYC Councilwoman Tiffany Caban has this on her website:
Brigid Bergin also didn’t report what happened after Justin Brannan’s vote. The left went to Brannan’s office and he wouldn’t speak to them. (See here) The left promised a challenger, but they didn’t come through. (See here)
Bergin was sympathetic to the Brannan – maybe he forget to tell her that he tweeted and deleted that? If Bergin wanted us to have the truth, she would have added his tweet to the article.
Why didn’t Bergin report about this, this, this or this. Why wouldn’t Bergin consider any of these things important to people in this city? There is a lot more going on than politicians or newspapers will tell us.
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March 29, 2022
Fundraiser for The Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parade – Sunday, May 1, 2022 – Live Music

Stop by the Salty Dog on Sunday, May 1st – Live music all day starting at 1:00 pm.
Many businesses donated $100 gift cards to raise money for the Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parad. Buy raffle tickets for $10 each to win!

The will be three winners of the Gift Certificates:
1^st prize – 10 $100 Gift Certificates
2^nd prize – 4 $100 Gift Certificates
3^rd prize – 2 $100 Gift Certificates
Salty Dog is at 7509 – 3rd Avenue. They will raffle off the gift certificates then.
If you would like to donate to the Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parade their address is:
United Military Veterans of Kings County Committee
PO Box 09-0233
Brooklyn N.Y. 11209
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March 29, 2022
Gingersnap at South Brooklyn Foundry 4/1 & 4/2
There are two shows this weekend! Gingersnap will be at South Brooklyn Foundry on Friday, April 1st from 7:00 pm to closing.
Gingersnap will also be there are Saturday, April 2nd for Brunch from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. South Brooklyn Foundry is at 6909 – 3rd Avenue.
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March 29, 2022
23-Year-Old Woman Sexually Assaulted in Brooklyn Subway Station at 7:10 am
WOW this is awful.
Prospect Park Station at 7:10 am (Info here)
Why are we only hearing about it now? How come Brooklyn police precincts aren’t sharing this info?
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March 29, 2022
Free Tree Giveaways Are Back in NYC – Register
Before the pandemic, NYC gave away a million trees. Now a similar initiative is giving away trees from April 16th through May. They have several locations to pick up from in Brooklyn.
Years ago, we got a magnolia trees from a Staten Island location – they are better organized. There’s one in Staten Island on May 8th.
When you get there, everyone lines up and then people pick the type of tree that they want. They had a lot of nice ones when we went.
Choose the date and location to register for a tree here.
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March 29, 2022
Brooklyn South Auxiliary Police Officers – We Love You
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March 28, 2022
Senator Gounardes, Bay Ridge Doesn’t Need Staged Political Photo Ops – We Need People Who Will Take Action
On Sunday morning, Senator Gounardes wanted to have a rally outside the 86th Street train station.
Why were only three adults at the rally? People didn’t know about it because Gounardes and Brannan didn’t advertise the rally on their social media and neither did the Riders Alliance.
Today I & @JustinBrannan @RidersAlliance @Tri_State & more stood together to call on @MTA to provide R train riders with frequent, reliable bus service while the R train is out of service over the next 2 months. Public transit is not a luxury for our community: it’s a necessity. pic.twitter.com/Xev6edHX4B
— Senator Andrew Gounardes (@Sen_Gounardes) March 27, 2022

An out-of-district website carried the story about the rally – see here.
Riders Alliance must have thought this was nonsense because hardly anyone showed up. The trains are a wreck and Riders Alliance hasn’t been active in Bay Ridge since the last election.
Pathetically, we can see Councilman Justin Brannan nodding in the video. Years ago, Brannan would have mocked pandering politicians for this type of display. Justin Brannan knows better than to pander.
Gounardes and Brannan are friends with Mayor Adams – they should have gone to dinner or rallied near the Mayor’s office. There is no reason to stand on 86th Street giving a speech.
The reality of the R train is that a mobile homeless shelter pulls into the station each morning. Train riders have to step over urine and find a car without homeless people in.
A freezing morning in #BayRidge gives another reminder that $3B of your tax dollars goes to failed social services agencies & a few million more for the politicians who don’t hold them accountable@Sen_Gounardes @JustinBrannan @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCComptroller pic.twitter.com/CahtxLL9Pb
— Brian Sullivan (@BrianSullivan96) March 28, 2022

Mayor Adams may have ejected the homeless from other trains, but the R train hotel is still occupied.
The R train will stop running from 36th Street to 95th Street on the weekends starting Easter weekend.
It’s ridiculous that people are visiting and doing things with their family and the train won’t be available for them on a holiday weekend.
Gounardes should have secured express bus transfers for Bay Ridge residents, so they aren’t inconvenienced. Andrew doesn’t celebrate Easter then, so he doesn’t care who needs the subway then.
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March 28, 2022
Want to Be In A Production of 42nd Street in Bay Ridge? Parts Are Still Available
Tappers & Maggie Jones wanted!
There are still some spots available for our returning production of 42nd Street.
Join the cast who were rehearsing when COVID came.
Coronavirus didn’t kill you, so you might as well go perform!
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Send in video auditions to [email protected].
Rehearsals begin next week!
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March 28, 2022
Crime in Bay Ridge Last Week – 68th Precinct
Assaults are up a lot in the 68th Precinct.
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March 28, 2022
Amuni Restaurant is Hiring in Bay Ridge
Amunì Restaurant at 7217 – 3rd Avenue is hiring servers and kitchen staff.
Apply on Tuesday thru Friday after 11:00 am. Part-time, full-time, and seasonal opportunities!
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Dawn Fox is teaching tennis in Bay Ridge!

March is Multiple Sclerosis awareness month.

On Friday, April 1st beginning at 6:00 pm, there will be a fundraiser for the National MS Society at The Bean Post 7525 – 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

A donation of $20 includes a Bud or Bud Light, a t-shirt and a raffle ticket. The raffle tickets are to a Mets/Yankees game and a NY Rangers game at Madison Square Garden.

Brigid Bergin, a journalist for Gothamist, wrote about the topic of Politicians Defunding the Police (yes now in March 2022). Bergin also created an audio clip about Councilman Justin Brannan. (Hear audio clip)

Why did Bergin fail to include Justin Brannan’s tweet inwhich he responded to the question about Defunding the Police in June 2020?

Tonight, I responded to Bergin and everyone who shared her story.

Bergin didn’t respond, but many people did. Many didn’t know Brannan wrote that on Twitter!

Over the years, I’ve written to a lot of journalists, both publicly and privately. Most respond and some change their stories. Some realize that their reporting matters to our community (one spoke to me on the day of his daughter’s wedding). Some just don’t care.

In the audio clip on Gothamist, Bergin plays Brannan’s actual vote. Then Bergin says that cuts to the NYPD amounted to just over three million dollars. Justin Brannan’s vote that year took money away from the police.

Then Bergin quickly said that NYC Council gave back the money the following year.

NYC Council wasn’t vocal about giving money back to the NYPD. We didn’t hear anyone talk about the police being refunding or that a mistake was made.

NYC spiraled downward after the words “Defund the Police Echoed Through the City.” It killed the morale of the police.

Bergin was surprised that a home on 79th Street still has a sign up. We were all shocked to see Justin Brannan’s tweet.

We understand why the sign is still up. When we voted for Brannan, we thought he would do the right thing for our community. We are angry that Brannan wrote this bill the first month he was in office for lobbyists. And now we are stuck with the defunder.

Many people hearing, “defund the police” think that people don’t want the police or policing in their community. There are actual politicians who want to eliminate the police. NYC Councilwoman Tiffany Caban has this on her website:

Brigid Bergin also didn’t report what happened after Justin Brannan’s vote. The left went to Brannan’s office and he wouldn’t speak to them. (See here) The left promised a challenger, but they didn’t come through. (See here)

Bergin was sympathetic to the Brannan – maybe he forget to tell her that he tweeted and deleted that? If Bergin wanted us to have the truth, she would have added his tweet to the article.

Why didn’t Bergin report about this, this, this or this. Why wouldn’t Bergin consider any of these things important to people in this city? There is a lot more going on than politicians or newspapers will tell us.

Stop by the Salty Dog on Sunday, May 1st – Live music all day starting at 1:00 pm.

Many businesses donated $100 gift cards to raise money for the Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parad. Buy raffle tickets for $10 each to win!

The will be three winners of the Gift Certificates:

1st prize – 10 $100 Gift Certificates

2nd prize – 4 $100 Gift Certificates

3rd prize – 2 $100 Gift Certificates

Salty Dog is at 7509 – 3rd Avenue. They will raffle off the gift certificates then.

If you would like to donate to the Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parade their address is:

United Military Veterans of Kings County Committee

PO Box 09-0233

Brooklyn N.Y. 11209

There are two shows this weekend! Gingersnap will be at South Brooklyn Foundry on Friday, April 1st from 7:00 pm to closing.

Gingersnap will also be there are Saturday, April 2nd for Brunch from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. South Brooklyn Foundry is at 6909 – 3rd Avenue.

WOW this is awful.

Prospect Park Station at 7:10 am (Info here)

Why are we only hearing about it now? How come Brooklyn police precincts aren’t sharing this info?

Before the pandemic, NYC gave away a million trees. Now a similar initiative is giving away trees from April 16th through May. They have several locations to pick up from in Brooklyn.

Years ago, we got a magnolia trees from a Staten Island location – they are better organized. There’s one in Staten Island on May 8th.

When you get there, everyone lines up and then people pick the type of tree that they want. They had a lot of nice ones when we went.

Choose the date and location to register for a tree here.

On Sunday morning, Senator Gounardes wanted to have a rally outside the 86th Street train station.

Why were only three adults at the rally? People didn’t know about it because Gounardes and Brannan didn’t advertise the rally on their social media and neither did the Riders Alliance.

An out-of-district website carried the story about the rally – see here.

Riders Alliance must have thought this was nonsense because hardly anyone showed up. The trains are a wreck and Riders Alliance hasn’t been active in Bay Ridge since the last election.

Pathetically, we can see Councilman Justin Brannan nodding in the video. Years ago, Brannan would have mocked pandering politicians for this type of display. Justin Brannan knows better than to pander.

Gounardes and Brannan are friends with Mayor Adams – they should have gone to dinner or rallied near the Mayor’s office. There is no reason to stand on 86th Street giving a speech.

The reality of the R train is that a mobile homeless shelter pulls into the station each morning. Train riders have to step over urine and find a car without homeless people in.

Mayor Adams may have ejected the homeless from other trains, but the R train hotel is still occupied.

The R train will stop running from 36th Street to 95th Street on the weekends starting Easter weekend.

It’s ridiculous that people are visiting and doing things with their family and the train won’t be available for them on a holiday weekend.

Gounardes should have secured express bus transfers for Bay Ridge residents, so they aren’t inconvenienced. Andrew doesn’t celebrate Easter then, so he doesn’t care who needs the subway then.

Tappers & Maggie Jones wanted!

There are still some spots available for our returning production of 42nd Street.

Join the cast who were rehearsing when COVID came.

Coronavirus didn’t kill you, so you might as well go perform!

Send in video auditions to [email protected].

Rehearsals begin next week!

Assaults are up a lot in the 68th Precinct.

Amunì Restaurant at 7217 – 3rd Avenue is hiring servers and kitchen staff.

Apply on Tuesday thru Friday after 11:00 am. Part-time, full-time, and seasonal opportunities!

1^st prize – 10 $100 Gift Certificates

2^nd prize – 4 $100 Gift Certificates

3^rd prize – 2 $100 Gift Certificates