Apr 092012
Here are a few of the interesting news items from the past week:
- Councilmember Vincent Gentile and State Senate hopeful Andrew Gounardes lead the fight against the City’s plans to discontinue the McKinley Beacon after-school program. [Bensonhurst Bean]
- The City lost a challenge with the Census Bureau, claiming that the Federal agency missed the Brooklyn and Queens headcounts by 50,000 by classifying large numbers of residential units, including those in Bay Ridge, as vacant. Coming from the Administration that routinely mistook Arab Christian and Sephardic Jewish establishments in Bay Ridge and Brooklyn as “Syrian (Muslim) Locations of Concern,” we assume they’re experts in the pitfalls of profiling. [NY Times, NY Magazine]
- An MTA bus burned, and set fire to six parked cars on Dahlgren Place, after running over a mattress – with its fuel-tank-puncturing springs – on the Verrazano Bridge. Please, people – remember to place your unused mattresses in proper trash receptacles. [NY Daily News]