Are you a Bay Ridge resident starved for a fresh apple or homemade honey? Well, on every Saturday until December you can head to the old Key Food Parking lot on 3rd Avenue and 94th Street to buy all the fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, honey and bread that you want.
The market — which arrived in Bay Ridge earlier this month — was such a hit on the first Saturday that all produce was sold out by 10 a.m.
Bay Ridge Ink strolled around the market and came back with these pictures.
The New York State Police used helicopters on Saturday to search for a 25-year old woman from Brooklyn who has been missing since Wednesday.
The New York Times has the story.
Property owners on Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, are opposing a plan by the School Construction Authority, through which public land would be seized to build a public school.
The New York Daily News has the story.
Brooklyn Borough’s President Marty Markowitz will kick off “Brooklyn Friday”, formerly known as Black Friday, at noon during a visit to the Spa and Wellness Center, a green Spa on Bay Ridge’s Third Avenue.
Thomas Green, former Fort Hamilton High School science teacher and principle is calling on the city to build a floating science laboratory beside a decaying dock called the Denyse Wharf, which juts out from a sandy outcrop near the Fort Hamilton Army base, reports The Brooklyn Paper.
Morrissey was killed on Friday morning
A 74-year old woman was killed in a hit and run accident on Bay Parkway this morning, police said.
Bridget Morrissey, whose family said suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, was crossing the street just before 7:00 a.m. when she was struck by a grey Sedan vehicle at 75th Street and 14th Avenue.
Morrissey, who lives on 72nd street, was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
“My mom gives her medicine in the morning. So my mom woke up late. And I guess my grandmother ventured out of the house,” the victim’s granddaughter Catlyn Bille was quoted as saying on Wcbstv.com.
The car stopped for a few moments after hitting Morrissey, then sped off changing its direction, according to a police report. It was last seen on Bay Parkway at 11th Avenue and has a New York State license plate.
Hours after the accident, Morrissey’s relatives visited the scene where they found her keys still on the ground.
Many Bay Ridge residents are worried that a recent crackdown on prostitution in Sunset Park might prompt prostitutes to migrate south.
Dean Rasinya, a retired policeman who heads Community Board 10, was recently quoted in local newspapers saying that even though Bay Ridge has been free of prostitution for a very long time, “we have to be aware.”
Rasinya added that the “Johns” who used to frequent Sunset Park, are now likely to appear in Bay Ridge’s old prostitution hubs of the 50s like Wakeman Place and the intersection between 3rd Avenue and the 68th Precinct.
In the Home Reporter and Sunset News, a weekly newspaper that covers Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, Paula Katinas reported that the 72nd Precinct has placed a camera onto a truck parked on the street. The camera, called a “Sky Watch” can capture images as far as several blocks around.
On a bad day, like after a heavy rain, the neighborhood located northeast from Owl’s Head Wastewater Treatment Plant here in Bay Ridge smells like a large outdoor public bathroom.
Residents have been complaining about for the last five decades, but to no avail.
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection acknowledges the problem, though it has been unable to make the smell go away.
In theory, the stench in any wastewater treatment plants is caused by the degradation of waste, and inadequate system to separate solid waste from which the smell leaks and combined sewers for rain and wastewater.
In the case of the Owl’s Head, which is located on 69th Street and Pier and which takes in 90 to 100 million gallons of sewage every day, the problem, experts say, is the solid waste separation system and the combined sewers for wastewater and rainwater.
Last summer, at a Community Board 10 meeting, the agency promised a smell-free summer.
Vincent Sapienza, the agency’s assistant commissioner, explained at the meeting that with the help of private consultants his agency had identified the smelliest parts of the plant and had placed covers on tanks, adopted a new carbon filtration system, and sealed windows at the thickener section.
But when heavy rains hit this stately neighborhood of two-story houses last August, the smell was stronger than ever.
“I remember coming home and thinking the dog went everywhere inside the house,” said one Shore Road resident.
The Bay Ridge Ink checked with experts, Kartik Chandran from the Columbia University’s School of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Vincent Ettari, a private consultant. Both said that there are solutions but they could be costly.
They suggested installing a separate storm drainage system to replace combined sewers, covering the plant, and employing bioscrubbers to get rid of volatile contaminants.
Last week, Sapienza told the board that his agency had launched a $37 million reconstruction project to get rid of the stench by January 2011.
Residents say there were thrilled at the news, but added that it does not mean much for them since their neighborhood will remain smelly for the next three years.
So, until then, people like Sayyid Samah will keep waiting for “the good days” to open a window.
“Those are the days when we breathe clean fresh air,” Samah said, as he walked after his two-year-old son Adam, along the fishing pier on a recent sunny morning. “Instead of the smell of sewage and crap that you smell around here.”
Are you a Bay Ridge resident starved for a fresh apple or homemade honey? Well, on every Saturday until December you can head to the old Key Food Parking lot on 3rd Avenue and 94th Street to buy all the fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, honey and bread that you want. The market — which arrived in Bay Ridge earlier this month — was such a hit on the first Saturday that all produce was sold out by 10 a.m. Bay Ridge Ink visited the market and came back with these pictures.
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