NYC Parks Meeting Didn’t Allow Brooklynites In The Zoom Meeting To Discuss the Greenway – Bay Ridge

I went to tonight’s meeting.

I mean I tried to. But the meeting never started. This stayed on the screen the whole time:

It could have been a “fake meeting” to make people think that they were listening or they didn’t want this Brooklynite to hear what they were saying.

There is no one to complain to because we don’t have a representatives who cares. Some NCO’s at the 68th Precinct do the same thing as we have tried several of the meetings.

TONIGHT at 6:30 PM, New York City Parks will have a Zoom meeting to share what they are doing at Shore Road, Leif Ericson and the Brooklyn Greenway to Coney Island.

Register for the meeting

Attend the meeting

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Free Flight for WWII and Korean War Veterans

Big Apple Honor Flight is a nonprofit organization which is providing an all expense paid flight to the World War II and Korean War Memorials in Washington DC. (That’s fantastic!)

To apply for the May 14th flight, fill out the form here.

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Narrows Community Theater Celebrates 50 Years

Congratulations to Narrows Community Theater for 50 years of productions in Bay Ridge! They are preparing a production of 42nd Street, which will be performed in May.

On Sunday March 20th, 2022 from 1:30 to 5:00 pm, Narrows Community Theater will have a 50th Anniversary Celebration at Hunter’s Steak and Ale House at 9404 – 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

An Afternoon of Entertainment and a Four-Course Dinner will be served.

Tickets are $65.00 for Members and $75.00 for Non-Members.

Tickets must be purchased online by March 10th.

Seating is limited. Proof of vaccination is required.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

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Spring Softball – 68th Precinct Teams

Registration for the 68th Precinct Baseball season has begun! Register here

Uniforms are included.

T-Ball — $140 – Ages 5 and 6 (Birth Years 2016 & 2017)

Explorers — $150 – Ages 7 and 8 (Birth Years 2014 & 2015)

Minors — $170 – Ages 9 and 10 (Birth Years 2012 & 2013)

Junior Varsity — $170 – Ages 11 and 12 (Birth Years 2010 & 2011)

Varsity — $180 – Ages 13 & 14 (Birth Years 2008 and 2009)

If you have questions about the baseball season, e-mail: [email protected]

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Justin Brannan Withdraws Bill for Large SUVs After Streetsblog Calls Him Out

Streetsblog NYC

Kudos to Julianne Cuba, a journalist for Streets Blog NYC called out Councilman Justin Brannan for his frivoulous bill that would allow large SUV owners to pay the same for parking, as regular sized cars.(See article)

Instead of making streets safer or helping people during the pandemic, Brannan thinks this was important legislation. (See bill)

After Julianna Cuba’s article came out this afternoon, Brannan withdrew the bill.

Too bad the Bay Ridge Democrats and Democratic District Leaders don’t hold Brannan accountable like this.

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Bay Ridge Seagull by @MainStreetComplete

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DGK School Open House – February 16th

DGK School is at 8502 – Ridge Blvd.

They will have Open House on February 16th from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.

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Ft. Hamilton Army Base Has Jobs Available

The Fort Hamilton Army Base will be hiring people on March 15th from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm.

There are a lot of good jobs with nice salaries and perks too!

Register for the Job Fair on March 15th —> Here

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Iwen Chu – Part of the Current Political Machine – You Won’t Receive More Representation

Iwen Chu is running for the new senate district that was just announced last week – seen in the map below. (Find out if your address is in the new district here)

This woman is a staffer to Peter Abbate and she uses the name, Irene. I have never seen her use the name Iwen (that must be an “election thing.”)

Source

The Democrats used redistricting to super gerrymander Brooklyn for Andrew Gounardes. His area is shown in yellow in the map below.

An “Asian district” was made so you don’t notice the ridiculous gerrymandering that is being done. People in Brooklyn should not be divided by ethnicity in 2022.

If Democrats cared about Asian people, they would not have split Chinatown into different district. They would want Chinatown to be one district that has a strong voice in government! The Asian people asked for Chinatown not to be split and Democrats like Andrew Gounardes did not care. (See here)

Everyone should have a seat at the table. We don’t need white men forcing “an Asian District” on Brooklyn and pretending they are “helping” when they are just hiding the severe gerrymandering. A leader who is Asian or any ethnicity should be able to lead in ANY area of Brooklyn that they want.

Gerrymandering is undemocratic. Racial Gerrymandering should be unconstitutional. (See here) Both Senator Andrew Gounardes and Peter Abbate should have spoken out against gerrymandering as the Republicans did the same thing to Brooklyn years ago.

Ironically, this newly formed area voted overwhelmingly more for Trump over Biden. That’s how they will silence Republicans.

Irene Chu knows that Brooklyn was gerrymandered under the Republicans to benefit Andrew Gounardes. No district lines should look like this:

As the head of the Stars and Stripes Political Club, we should have heard Irene speak out against continuing gerrymandering in Brooklyn because it is undemocratic, but Irene has been silent.

Irene Chu didn’t criticize the redistricting plan because she is looking to make a career move. She knows her boss, Peter Abbate, didn’t share the new district lines with the community.

Kathy Hochul signed the new districts into law on February 2nd. Irene Chu had already purchased the domain http://iwenchu.com on January 31st.

Irene put up a website (see here) for a position that most people didn’t know was created. That’s a sign she is part of the existing machine.

Chu was chosen by a group of male politicians because she is an echo for them. Irene Chu has never called out any of these politicians for their lack of help towards the Asian community or for the corruption we have seen from some.

We noticed that Irene Chu didn’t mention working for Peter Abbate on her site. On See Through NY’s site, Chu, I Wen has worked for Abbate since 2013. She has been the Chief of Staff since 2019. (See here)

In 2018, while working for Abbate, Chu went on social media to speak out against Mayor de Blasio cancelling afterschool one day due to a snowstorm. Instead of Irene asking her boss, Assemblyman Abbate to call the Mayor, she put a message to Justin Brannan on social media. Why didn’t Irene call Brannan since she personally knows him!

All The Times Irene Chu was Silent:

1) Garbage cans were removed from Fort Hamilton Parkway – why didn’t Peter Abbate and Iwen Chu have the service restores. Businesses on Fort Hamilton Parkway are suffering because they are getting tickets for garbage flying around. This is blocks from Assemblyman Abbate’s office. (See here)

2) Lobbyists have been behind the red light cameras. In 2018, Irene Chu wrote online that she wanted the red light cameras for safety.

When more red light cameras were added to our area, Justin Brannan was lobbied. (Information) In July 2021, the newspaper revealed that speed cameras caught Councilman Brannan speeding 16 times. Speed cameras have many repeat offenders that no one wants to talk about. Irene Chu was silent. Irene never spoke out or told the media that Brannan made Brooklyn less safe. (See here)

3) In August 2021, when a child was killed in Dyker Heights, Peter Abbate told the newspaper that a traffic light at that location was not enough. Yet, he didn’t do anything to remedy the street. This accident was just a few blocks from Abbate’s office. When Abbate didn’t take action, why didn’t Chu call for action from other politicians or the community? (See here) Andrew Gounardes also represents the area and each time someone dies, he says he is heartbroken and does nothing. Today was no different:

4) Senator Andrew Gounardes failed to do the right thing in landmarking Angel Guardian home, the developers were bold and they took down part of the building before it could be seen by the NYC landmarking commission. The commissioner noted this in his video. Both Gounardes and Brannan accepted donations from the developer, Irene Chu didn’t speak out against it. (See here)

5) Irene Chu stood with Justin Brannan as he ran for re-election, even though a large portion of the district voted against him:

On social media, Justin Brannan was asked about defunding the police and he responded, “Ya, I am in.” (See here) While the NYC Council budget didn’t go as far as defunding the NYPD by a billion dollars, as liberals wanted, the term “defunding the police” was harmful to NYC. During the NYC Speaker debate, Brannan and other candidates were question by Errol Louis on Channel 1 about the NYPD’s budget being cut. (See here)

6) Irene Chu shows up to events as a political staffer, she is not a passionate leader for Brooklyn. When an Asian grandmother was set on fire, not one politician rallied in Brooklyn. A rapper named China Mac came to Brooklyn because politicians failed to speak out. Why didn’t Irene rally any of the politicians who seek support from the Stars and Stripes Club? (See here)

7) A homeless shelter was proposed for 65th Street and 7th Avenue: When business owners on 65th Street and 7th Avenue banned together, Stephanie Wong spoke loud and clear! Stephanie Wong should be running for this position because she is a passionate voice for people. (See here) Irene Chu was a translator but she didn’t do what Stephanie Wong did. See the video

8) Irene Chu supports students taking the SHSAT for high school and is leading with that as a reason to vote for for her. Why didn’t Irene Chu tell the community which politician flip-flopped on the SHSAT? One politician’s staffer even spoke out against parents who were for the SHSAT.

When the vote came out for politicians who supported closing Riker’s Island, Irene Chu shared the votes on social media. Those in blue voted to close Rikers and put the jails in communities.

Why didn’t Irene Chu share the information about which politicians were not supporting the SHSAT for admission into high schools, if that topic was important to her?

9) This Summer, there was a serious storm and 13 people in Queens drowned in their basement apartments. (See here) NYC did nothing to remedy that situation, although they do know of an adjustment that can be done on the basement apartments. Justin Brannan headed the NYC Council Committee for Resiliency and didn’t do anything to stop this from happening in the future. Abbate and Irene didn’t take action for residents in Brooklyn! The Times reported there have been over 8,000 reports of potentially illegal converted homes so far this year. 

10) Property taxes are a big issue for many people in the new senate district, yet Irene Chu has one line on her website. Her boss could have passed legislation in Albany by now, but he hasn’t done anything. We have never heard Abbate or Irene speak out for home owners in Brooklyn.

Finally, the thing that stands out the most about Irene is that in March 2020, right before the coronavirus became known to the general population, Irene went with politicians to Park Asia Restaurant on 8th Avenue. (See photo) The Brooklyn politicians claimed they were “Team Dimsum” and that people in our area were discriminating against Asian restaurants. The reality was that Asians in Brooklyn were not eating out at the restaurants because they heard how deadly the coronavirus was from their relatives overseas and they were afraid of dying.

Senator Gounardes wrote the text below because he didn’t understand what was going on. Why didn’t Chu tell him what was happening? There is hate towards Asians, but this was not it.

Hate crimes against Asians increased more than three times from 2020-2021. See article Why didn’t Assemblyman Abbate take action? Why didn’t Irene Chu ask Senator Andrew Gounrades to do something to support the Asian Community? He tweets, but that’s about it!

Hopefully someone with passion for the community will run for this new senate seat! Be someone who can speak out against hate loud and clear.

We hope there are other Democrats and Republicans running for this seat because Chu is an echo of existing politicians. (Let’s hope there are!) The current politician’s plans aren’t working and they aren’t changing course either!

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Girl Scouts Selling Cookies in Bay Ridge Today

Girl Scout Troop 2429 is outside of the Bookmark Shoppe and Blue Door Restaurant at 8415 3rd Avenue selling girl scout cookies from 12:00 – 4:00pm.

If you don’t have cash, there is a parent there that is accepting Venmo.

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Justin Brannan Fights For Large SUV Owners to Be Charged the Same for Parking

There was no press release about Justin Brannan’s new bill for SUV owners and therefore, no article in the local papers.

Parking lots usually charge an extra $10 for large SUVs to park in NYC.

Councilman Brannan believes it is unjust for large SUV owners to pay more to park in a parking lot, so he’s this leading this year with Into 0009-2022. (Read the bill)

I’m glad there are no homeless people in our area, no one dying from reckless driving or any real problems going on during the pandemic. This allows for Justin Brannan to concentrate on bills for rich SUV owners.

Just because your vehicle take up a lot more room, weights more and wears on the parking lot floor, Councilman Brannan doesn’t believe you should pay $10 more to park.

The rich SUV owners must be grateful that Democratic District Leaders in our area are silent, while Brannan gets them parking discounts in NYC. It’s good the Bay Ridge Democrats don’t hold Brannan accountable to the community, or Richie Rich’s needs wouldn’t be able to be met.

On the other side of the Internet, Steetsblog is crying quietly over the Brannan discount. Don’t they know Brannan drives a SUV? (Seen here) Streetsblog should have came out against Brannan’s driving last year, but they didn’t care then. (See here)

Then we saw this tweet:

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Bay Ridge Business Owners Received Huge Electric Bills

We saw many Ridgites receive high electric bills for their homes. The businesses are receiving outrageous bills. As usual, our politicians haven’t taken action with the law.

When you see costs going up at restaurants and other businesses, this is why.

While we understand inflation has caused prices to rise on everything, Con Edison can not be doubling the cost of electricity for business owners. How will they survive?

The people who represent this area need to be proactive towards the community’s needs. We should have seen all elected officials addressing this issue on their own. There should be at least four solutions because the area is represented by many people.

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