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Bay Ridge crime wave -- burglaries up 60%
Submitted by steve on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:31Just a heads up. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that there's been a spike in burglaries in Bay Ridge over the past month, particularly in our neighborhood.
During a 28-day period starting on Sept. 5, crooks broke into 39 residences in Bay Ridge — an increase of more than 60 percent compared to the same four-week periods in 2007 and 2006, when there were 24 and 21 burglaries respectively.
The majority of the burglaries occurred between 65th and 86th streets and Fourth and Seventh avenues, said Deputy Inspector Eric Rodriguez, commanding officer of the 68th Precinct, at an Oct. 16 town hall meeting on crime.
“Most of the burglaries are rear window and they are very difficult to police,” said Rodriguez, who noted that in all but three break-ins, the crooks got in from the back of the home.
“These guys push the screen right in and go in the house…they are targeting jewelry cash and electronics,” he added.
The majority of the burglaries occurred between 65th and 86th streets and Fourth and Seventh avenues, said Deputy Inspector Eric Rodriguez, commanding officer of the 68th Precinct, at an Oct. 16 town hall meeting on crime.
“Most of the burglaries are rear window and they are very difficult to police,” said Rodriguez, who noted that in all but three break-ins, the crooks got in from the back of the home.
“These guys push the screen right in and go in the house…they are targeting jewelry cash and electronics,” he added.
read the full articleIn case you were wondering about all the ambulances at Owls Head Park...
Submitted by steve on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:55Pretty much 'nuff said.
(turn down the volume first)
(turn down the volume first)
Veggie good news for Ridge! Greenmarket is coming
Submitted by steve on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 09:07Veggie good news for Ridge! Greenmarket is coming
By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper
Grocery-starved Bay Ridge will soon get its first farmer’s market — and the fruit and vegetable venders will set up in the former Key Food parking lot, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.
Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) will reveal at a press conference on Monday afternoon at the corner of Third Avenue and 95th Street — where the now-closed grocery will soon become a Walgreens — that the site has been chosen to host the green market, an agricultural insider told The Paper.
Old picture of my house, circa 1936
Submitted by steve on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 23:24Last weekend, as I was standing on the sidewalk talking with Regina, a nicely dressed couple, Dorothy and Alec, stopped their car and were staring at my next door neighbor's house. He rolled down his window and said, "that was my grandparents' house in the 1930s".
It sounded like this was gonna be a good story so I told them to hold on while I got Betsy (it's her house). Betsy, who is mid-40s now, was born in the place. Her grandparents bought it when they were a young couple. So these peoples' grandparents might have been the previous owners.
As it turned out, he had spent a lot of time in the house when he was a little kid in the '30s. Betsy took them on a tour of her place, much of which is still original, and you could tell he was having flashback moments as he recalled the things he used to do in the house and what things used to look like. He related lots of cool stories about the block, what it was like here during WW2, the Liberty ships jamming the harbor waiting to be loaded at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, etc.
They sent Betsy a photo of my house from the 1930s.
It sounded like this was gonna be a good story so I told them to hold on while I got Betsy (it's her house). Betsy, who is mid-40s now, was born in the place. Her grandparents bought it when they were a young couple. So these peoples' grandparents might have been the previous owners.
As it turned out, he had spent a lot of time in the house when he was a little kid in the '30s. Betsy took them on a tour of her place, much of which is still original, and you could tell he was having flashback moments as he recalled the things he used to do in the house and what things used to look like. He related lots of cool stories about the block, what it was like here during WW2, the Liberty ships jamming the harbor waiting to be loaded at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, etc.
They sent Betsy a photo of my house from the 1930s.
Bay Ridge Tornado
Submitted by steve on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 22:17After the tornado last year, Karen and I grabbed some shots of the neighborhood. I uploaded them to Flickr.
Bay Ridge Tornado pics
Bay Ridge Tornado pics
The paving of Senator Street
Submitted by steve on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 21:50
Last year, NYC DOT repaved several Brooklyn avenues. Last month, they began ripping up some cross streets, ours included. I figured this might make a good photo archive moment for the neighborhood blog.
When I first saw the signs pop up on 67th Street I thought it was going to be yet another annoying film shoot.
Does anyone remember when the last street repaving happened here?
Where's Bay Ridge?
Submitted by steve on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 15:10Bay Ridge is located in south Brooklyn, or Brooklyn South for the locals.
For Google Maps fans, here we are. We sit on lower NY harbor on the narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island, connected by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which was the world's longest suspension span bridge for about five minutes when it opened in 1964. One of the coolest things about this neighborhood are the big ships and the lonely foghorns at night which are obliterated only by low-flying helicopters from NYPD's heliport three blocks away.
Bay Ridge is a generally quiet, increasingly upscale bedroom community. It's close enough to Manhattan to be reasonably friendly to daily commuting but far enough away to have it's own distinct community feel. In fact, many Bay Ridgers have no interest at all in Manhattan. I've met people who haven't visited "the city" in a decade or more.
Why should they? For one, Bay Ridge offers one of the best "restaurant rows" in NYC with excellent restaurants like Cebu, Meze, Bay Ridge Sushi, Tuscany Grill and some of the best Italian food in the city. This neighborhood being Irish and Italian, there's certainly no shortage of pubs either, from pretentious wine bars to old school neighborhood tap rooms, like Three Jolly Pigeons.
For Google Maps fans, here we are. We sit on lower NY harbor on the narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island, connected by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which was the world's longest suspension span bridge for about five minutes when it opened in 1964. One of the coolest things about this neighborhood are the big ships and the lonely foghorns at night which are obliterated only by low-flying helicopters from NYPD's heliport three blocks away.
Bay Ridge is a generally quiet, increasingly upscale bedroom community. It's close enough to Manhattan to be reasonably friendly to daily commuting but far enough away to have it's own distinct community feel. In fact, many Bay Ridgers have no interest at all in Manhattan. I've met people who haven't visited "the city" in a decade or more.
Why should they? For one, Bay Ridge offers one of the best "restaurant rows" in NYC with excellent restaurants like Cebu, Meze, Bay Ridge Sushi, Tuscany Grill and some of the best Italian food in the city. This neighborhood being Irish and Italian, there's certainly no shortage of pubs either, from pretentious wine bars to old school neighborhood tap rooms, like Three Jolly Pigeons.
