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April 19, 2021
Community Board 10 Meeting
Community Board Ten General Board Meeting via Zoom.
Tonight, April 19 at 7:00 pm, Community Board 10 will have a meeting on Zoom. You can view it here.
See here
If you wish to speak at the Zoom meeting please email [email protected]
This is the meeting about the school – Block 6065 – Lots 28 and 39. Will someone have CB10 reveal who owns Lot 28 tonight? It’s important as this is about someone playing politics.
Tonight, I will write about the meeting and who stuck up for this community and who didn’t. Don’t let me down Bay Ridge.
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April 19, 2021
Meet Maureen Spataro at the Bookmark Shoppe
On Saturday, April 24th, author, Maureen Spataro will be at the Bookmark Shoppe from 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
She will be signing her book, Press Pause: Press Pause: The Breakdown that Rebuilt My Life and Changed a Family Legacy.
See the Bookmark Shoppe’s calendar here.
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April 18, 2021
Dragonfruit in Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge
1. J&C Market on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Ovington
2. Corner Market on 73rd and 3rd Avenue
Dyker Heights
1. The Fruit and Vegetables Market on 13th Avenue and 78th Street – next to Mona Lisa Bakery
2. Mong Market on 18th Avenue and 86th Street
Sunset Park
1. 8th Avenue and in the 50’s are a lot of small markets.
2. Costco – they have this frozen dragonfruit
Park Slope
1. Whole Foods – frozen dragonfruit – see here
Fruit store on 13th Ave & 78th st next to Mona Lisa has them.
Delivery
Asian Veggies has it – see here

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April 18, 2021
Joe Joyce’s Bar is For Sale
Joe Joyce passed away last Spring. (Info)
Today, I noticed his bar, JJ Bubbles had a for sale sign. (See here)
Being that we are still in the pandemic, it’s going to be hard to sell now. Hopefully, things will be better in six months from now.
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April 18, 2021
Holy Cross Outreach Center Opened in Sunset Park
Holy Cross Church in Bay Ridge knows people in our area need help.
They opened an Outreach Center at 6022 – 4th Avenue to provide a food and a clothing pantry to anyone who needs something. It is open Monday through Saturday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Such kindness!! It had to take a lot of hours of preparation and fundraising.
If you would like to donate packaged food, toiletries, cleaning agents, or gently used clothing, shoes, blankets and backpacks, please feel free to stop by and drop them off during our operating hours.
Holy Cross was doing outreach for years before the pandemic started. They make meals for seniors. (See here)
They have been doing a monthly Homeless Midnight Run to Manhattan since 2008.
See how organized they are:
Holy Cross is accepting volunteers to help with their outreach! 718-836-3510 or this form on their site.
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April 18, 2021
The Wicked Monk Beer Garden

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The Wicked Monk has an outdoor beer garden behind the restaurant on 3rd Avenue and 95th Street.
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April 17, 2021
Free HIV Test Kit – At Home Testing
If you want to test yourself at home for HIV, call for a test kit.
PrEP & PEP can keep you protected before and after exposure to HIV.
Walk-ins welcome. 880 Bergen Street 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY.
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April 17, 2021
Consign Connection is Closing
Caught the sign in the window as we were driving by. It read: Store Closing. Thank you Bay Ridge. Final Day: April 26th.
I had a flashback to when I shopped there for a gift for a friend’s birthday. She had wanted a vintage bag that nowhere had – except Cosign Connection! The owner was so helpful!
This store has been open for 30 years – since 1991! On the website it says it is the longest running consignment shop in Brooklyn!
While it’s sad this store will no longer be in our neighborhood, the good news is that it will exist online. (See site)
Cosign Connection sells clothing, jewelry, shoes and vintage bags that are hard time.
Cosign Connection is at 8715 3rd Avenue – stop in and get the 50%+ deals before they are gone!
Good luck to the owner! Thank you for having a beautiful store for us!
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April 17, 2021
Opossum With Babies is Brought to Rescue
Picture is from this video
A vicious animal was reported being on Colonial Road on the Citizen App around 10:30 am.
People reported the opossum as vicious, but she wasn’t vicious – she was injured.
Good people in Bay Ridge went to see what animal. They noticed the opossum had babies in her pouch and decided to take her to a rescue. They were able to get the opossum in a box and bring her to Manhattan to the Wild Bird Fund. From there she will be sent to Long Island for care.
Thank you to the wonderful people who took care of the opposum.
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April 17, 2021
Walgreens Has Vaccine Appointments Available to Book Online
You can book a vaccine appointment at Walgreens on 95th Street and 3rd Avenue now (it’s 11:35 am) – go here
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April 17, 2021
Accident Outside Bay Ridge Dealership – Tell the Whole Story
There was an accident outside of a dealership this week.
Gertz Kuntzman published an article with Councilman Brannan mouthing off and blaming dealerships. (See here)
There’s more to this story.
Gertz wrote what Brannan said: “Many of these dealerships have treated our sidewalks as an extension of their showroom for decades. The bad actors have all been warned many, many times. The NYPD is well aware and has spoken to these bad actors dozens of times.”
For years people have complained on social media to Councilman Brannan about the dealerships.
The Councilman proceeded to write silly tweets at one of the dealerships, instead of having the dealership ticketed!
Gertz Kuntzman wrote that in 2018, Brannan introduced legislation that was supposed to revoke the license of any car dealership which received two or more violations in a year for illegally parking or leaving cars on sidewalks. This article says Brannan reintroduced Van Bramer’s legislation from 2016 – see here. (Gertz didn’t mention this) See the bill here.
While the bill sounds good, it didn’t pass in either 2016 or 2018 with Brannan. Why wasn’t it updated so it could get passed in 2019 or 2020?
Why didn’t Gertz find out why this situation wasn’t rectified another way after 2018?
There was this strange pose in the newspaper.
Why would Brannan pose and take a silly stance in the paper when this is a serious issue?
Ticket them and pass the bill!
In 2019, Brannan told people that ticket agents looked away when cars didn’t have plates or registration:
Why didn’t Brannan request new ticket agents or DO Something about the agents not ticketing? (Someone tweeted this to Brannan)
Then Councilman Brannan’s responses to people became stranger and he told people that the cars without plates or registration can’t get ticketed:
The premise that a car without a plate can’t be ticketed is false! NYC publishes the violations here – it’s against Violation 74 to have a car without plates. The ticket is $65.
If a car doesn’t have a registration sticker, it receives a $65 ticket (Violation 70)- seen here.
If a person didn’t have an inspection sticker, they would receive a ticket for $65 (Violation #71) – seen here.
One Brooklynite joked about Brannan’s reason for the cars not being ticketed:
What stopped Brannan from making a law that clearly said a ticket agent could ticket every car without a license or registration outside a dealership? NYC could have raised more revenue from this bill.
On social media, people even wrote about their experience of almost getting hit because drivers couldn’t see her because of the double-parked cars. (Thank you to this person for speaking up and trying.)
Last year, right before Covid, it looked like Councilman Brannan was going to take action, but then Brannan went silent.
Shortly after, someone shared all these donations to Justin Brannan from Bram Auto Group all on one day in February 2020 (Seen here):
See larger here
People didn’t talk about the dealerships for a long time after that.
The accident this week didn’t happen at a dealership where Brannan received the donations. But we are surprised Brannan would think it was okay to accept donations from any dealership, as he needs to represent residents who are calling for safety.
In March 2021, this person wrote about his experience – see here.
Gothamist writer, Jake Offenhartz echoed Streetsblog in his story, but didn’t answer the question: Why are dealerships in this area not ticketed each time they are on the sidewalk or not following the rules? Why didn’t Councilman Brannan taken action after 2018?
I didn’t know the woman who died, but how tragic this must be for her family.
This community needs to see an immediate change on 4th Avenue and not articles about a 2018 bill that went nowhere. If you are a journalist writing about a community you don’t live in, please interview someone who lives there and get the history and full story.
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April 17, 2021
Food Pantry Collection Today Until 3:00 pm
This helps families in our neighborhoods, who have been hurt by the pandemic.
Bay Ridge Cares collected from the community and matched the community’s donations.
Their big check says $5610.00, but they said $6,000 in their video today (watch here) because they may have received a few more donations to the collection – see here.
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Community Board Ten General Board Meeting via Zoom.

Tonight, April 19 at 7:00 pm, Community Board 10 will have a meeting on Zoom. You can view it here.

If you wish to speak at the Zoom meeting please email [email protected]

This is the meeting about the school – Block 6065 – Lots 28 and 39. Will someone have CB10 reveal who owns Lot 28 tonight? It’s important as this is about someone playing politics.

Tonight, I will write about the meeting and who stuck up for this community and who didn’t. Don’t let me down Bay Ridge.

On Saturday, April 24th, author, Maureen Spataro will be at the Bookmark Shoppe from 1:00 – 3:00 pm.

She will be signing her book, Press Pause: Press Pause: The Breakdown that Rebuilt My Life and Changed a Family Legacy.

See the Bookmark Shoppe’s calendar here.

Bay Ridge

1. J&C Market on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Ovington

2. Corner Market on 73rd and 3rd Avenue

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Dyker Heights

1. The Fruit and Vegetables Market on 13th Avenue and 78th Street – next to Mona Lisa Bakery

2. Mong Market on 18th Avenue and 86th Street

Sunset Park

1. 8th Avenue and in the 50’s are a lot of small markets.

2. Costco – they have this frozen dragonfruit

Park Slope

1. Whole Foods – frozen dragonfruit – see here

Delivery

Asian Veggies has it – see here

Joe Joyce passed away last Spring. (Info)

Today, I noticed his bar, JJ Bubbles had a for sale sign. (See here)

Being that we are still in the pandemic, it’s going to be hard to sell now. Hopefully, things will be better in six months from now.

Holy Cross Church in Bay Ridge knows people in our area need help.

They opened an Outreach Center at 6022 – 4th Avenue to provide a food and a clothing pantry to anyone who needs something. It is open Monday through Saturday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm.

Such kindness!! It had to take a lot of hours of preparation and fundraising.

If you would like to donate packaged food, toiletries, cleaning agents, or gently used clothing, shoes, blankets and backpacks, please feel free to stop by and drop them off during our operating hours.

Holy Cross was doing outreach for years before the pandemic started. They make meals for seniors. (See here)

They have been doing a monthly Homeless Midnight Run to Manhattan since 2008.

See how organized they are:

Holy Cross is accepting volunteers to help with their outreach! 718-836-3510 or this form on their site.

The Wicked Monk has an outdoor beer garden behind the restaurant on 3rd Avenue and 95th Street.

If you want to test yourself at home for HIV, call for a test kit.

PrEP & PEP can keep you protected before and after exposure to HIV.

Walk-ins welcome. 880 Bergen Street 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY.

Caught the sign in the window as we were driving by. It read: Store Closing. Thank you Bay Ridge. Final Day: April 26th.

I had a flashback to when I shopped there for a gift for a friend’s birthday. She had wanted a vintage bag that nowhere had – except Cosign Connection! The owner was so helpful!

This store has been open for 30 years – since 1991! On the website it says it is the longest running consignment shop in Brooklyn!

While it’s sad this store will no longer be in our neighborhood, the good news is that it will exist online. (See site)

Cosign Connection sells clothing, jewelry, shoes and vintage bags that are hard time.

Cosign Connection is at 8715 3rd Avenue – stop in and get the 50%+ deals before they are gone!

Good luck to the owner! Thank you for having a beautiful store for us!

A vicious animal was reported being on Colonial Road on the Citizen App around 10:30 am.

People reported the opossum as vicious, but she wasn’t vicious – she was injured.

Good people in Bay Ridge went to see what animal. They noticed the opossum had babies in her pouch and decided to take her to a rescue. They were able to get the opossum in a box and bring her to Manhattan to the Wild Bird Fund. From there she will be sent to Long Island for care.

Thank you to the wonderful people who took care of the opposum.

You can book a vaccine appointment at Walgreens on 95th Street and 3rd Avenue now (it’s 11:35 am) – go here

There was an accident outside of a dealership this week.

Gertz Kuntzman published an article with Councilman Brannan mouthing off and blaming dealerships. (See here)

There’s more to this story.

Gertz wrote what Brannan said: “Many of these dealerships have treated our sidewalks as an extension of their showroom for decades. The bad actors have all been warned many, many times. The NYPD is well aware and has spoken to these bad actors dozens of times.”

For years people have complained on social media to Councilman Brannan about the dealerships.

The Councilman proceeded to write silly tweets at one of the dealerships, instead of having the dealership ticketed!

While the bill sounds good, it didn’t pass in either 2016 or 2018 with Brannan. Why wasn’t it updated so it could get passed in 2019 or 2020?

Why didn’t Gertz find out why this situation wasn’t rectified another way after 2018?

There was this strange pose in the newspaper.

Why would Brannan pose and take a silly stance in the paper when this is a serious issue?

Ticket them and pass the bill!

In 2019, Brannan told people that ticket agents looked away when cars didn’t have plates or registration:

Why didn’t Brannan request new ticket agents or DO Something about the agents not ticketing? (Someone tweeted this to Brannan)

Then Councilman Brannan’s responses to people became stranger and he told people that the cars without plates or registration can’t get ticketed:

The premise that a car without a plate can’t be ticketed is false! NYC publishes the violations here – it’s against Violation 74 to have a car without plates. The ticket is $65.

If a car doesn’t have a registration sticker, it receives a $65 ticket (Violation 70)- seen here.

If a person didn’t have an inspection sticker, they would receive a ticket for $65 (Violation #71) – seen here.

One Brooklynite joked about Brannan’s reason for the cars not being ticketed:

What stopped Brannan from making a law that clearly said a ticket agent could ticket every car without a license or registration outside a dealership? NYC could have raised more revenue from this bill.

On social media, people even wrote about their experience of almost getting hit because drivers couldn’t see her because of the double-parked cars. (Thank you to this person for speaking up and trying.)

Last year, right before Covid, it looked like Councilman Brannan was going to take action, but then Brannan went silent.

Shortly after, someone shared all these donations to Justin Brannan from Bram Auto Group all on one day in February 2020 (Seen here):

People didn’t talk about the dealerships for a long time after that.

The accident this week didn’t happen at a dealership where Brannan received the donations. But we are surprised Brannan would think it was okay to accept donations from any dealership, as he needs to represent residents who are calling for safety.

In March 2021, this person wrote about his experience – see here.

Gothamist writer, Jake Offenhartz echoed Streetsblog in his story, but didn’t answer the question: Why are dealerships in this area not ticketed each time they are on the sidewalk or not following the rules? Why didn’t Councilman Brannan taken action after 2018?