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Who knew there was that much money floating around the neighborhood? Story shamefully linkjacked from here. NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A money manager based in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been indicted in a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say operated for three decades and involved more than $40 million. Philip Barry, who ran a [...] After errors related to the emergency 911 dispatch system of reporting fires ballooned last month, Councilman Vincent Gentile has requested that a bill be drafted to establish a separate number to facilitate the reporting of those incidents and expedite the FDNY’s response [...] One of the undiscussed issues in the Second Amendment debate is that privately owned firearms are not physically chained to the zip code in which they were purchased. That may seem trivial, but since guns are easily portable (and carry a significant street-value) they tend to travel from places where guns are cheap and plentiful [...] This is a bit of old news, but here’s the details from the NYTimes.com Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old [...] …Just 16% of voters statewide believe the State Senate is doing either an excellent or good job in office, and nearly a majority — 48% — thinks the legislative body is performing [...] Open and Closed: A case for the life of a small business in Bay Ridge Written by Rosalie Drago
Any Bay Ridge resident who strolls the avenues knows that every few weeks a new business opens while another vacant storefront, with skeletal remains of shelves and [...] Best explained by Andrew Hawkins of New York Capital News (how does CUNY keep turning out so many good journalists?– pls note the bold area… way to nab a memorable quote. My favorite this year.) To hear the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee tell it, two-term Staten Island Democrat Janele Hyer-Spencer is responsible for all the dysfunction [...] According to NewsLI.com, a “Legislative Task Force on Reforming the New York State Juvenile Justice System” is trying to get to the bottom “increased rate of violence at state-run and licensed juvenile homes”. Local quotable handshaker, State Senator Marty Golden had the following statement. “I strongly believe that we must make it a legislative priority to eradicate the presence of violence amongst the youth of our society. Youth violence does nothing more than destroy our families, our schools, and our neighborhoods. I look forward to working with my colleagues and the task force to address the rise in such violence and reverse this trend. We must create opportunities for our youth to get help right away so as to prevent them from falling off of New York’s radar and being lost within society forever.”” For more on the story, check out the wonderful coverage offered on this story at [...] Over the course of the last two nights, due to construction, R trains service has been scuttled between 36th street and 95th street. Instead, shuttle buses were provided for those unfortunate enough to need the R train between the hours of 11pm and 6 am. The scene on Friday night was one of curses, anger and [...] This totally slipped under our radar here but here are the good folks at the Gothamist with the basics. Living testimony to the efficiency line in local (some might say NIMBY-istic) activism, here are some wikipedia details on the South BK paragon. Check the curiously tamed down brouhaha The bridge was the last great public works [...] |
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