The above photo of a woman fishing at the narrows was taken by David Tan on April 25, 2012, using a Konica Autoreflex T3. To see more of David’s work, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com. If you have photos you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, [...]
On the morning of Monday, May 14, Bryan Dilberian, a triple amputee military veteran and Fort Hamilton High School alumnus, met with students and faculty at Visitation Academy [8902 Ridge Blvd]. This past February, on Valentine’s – a day normally reserved for sweethearts – the Catholic all-girls prep school’s students held a bake sale in [...]
SHOPPING & COMMERCE: “Plain and simple: we need to level the playing field.” That’s what Justin Brannan, press secretary for Councilman Vincent Gentile, said to us when asked to comment on last week’s developments in the conflict between Bay Ridge’s food carts and brick-and-mortar restaurants. Councilman Gentile has often been reported as opposing food carts in the BID, and made comments on the issue at the Community Board 10 general meeting in April. We reached out to Brannan, wanting to know what specific proposals the Councilman was offering. All of this, plus a report from Community Board 10 chairperson Joanne Seminara, a statement from the attorney of halal food cart operator Sammy Kassen, and an excerpt from a 2011 Wall Street Journal article highlighting the black market for mobile food vending permits.
The annual Storefront Artists’ Walk (SAW) – an emerging Bay Ridge tradition – is gearing up for its third year on 5th Avenue. It all starts on Friday, May 18 – which is tomorrow [!], and according to co-founder John Avelluto, it’s looking even better than the two years before. We had a chance to [...]
Starting in September, students at Fort Hamilton High School [8301 Shore Road] will have the opportunity to be future Baryshnikovs, Pavlovas, Ashtons and Fonteyns. In short, they’ll have the chance to dance. And it all stems from a random conversation in a hair salon, reports Mark Morales for the Daily News.
As college tuition continues to climb while student loan debt exceeds one trillion dollars, one local bank has some advice for the parents of small children: Better start saving now. To further communicate the necessity of squirreling away some salary for your little one’s schooling, Flushing Bank [7102 3rd Ave] held a seminar for parents [...]
As we mentioned earlier in the month, It’s My Park Day will be this coming Saturday, May 19. Volunteers are invited to help with some spring cleaning in Bay Ridge’s beautiful shore-front parks. Activities will include painting, planting, weeding, sweeping, raking, handling sign-in sheets, tools and refreshments. According to a press release put out by [...]
Sister Dolores, the principal of the all-girls Fontbonne Hall Academy [9901 Shore Road] may be tough, but there’s nothing she expects of her students that she doesn’t do herself. According to a recent New York Times article by Michael Winerip, the daily rhythms of Sister Dolores’ dedication include arriving at the Catholic prep school most [...]
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: The auditorium at St. Patrick’s Church will host the opening of the Narrows Community Theater’s newest musical, My Fair Lady, this Friday. The musical will be showing this coming weekend and next, with performances on Friday nights, Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoons. My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of the 1912 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. It premiered on Broadway in 1956, and became the longest-running musical and third-longest Broadway show of any sort, performing over 2,700 shows through 1962.
One aspect of Fleet Week we overlooked last time was the international contingent of the Parade of Ships. On Wednesday, May 23, at around 8 a.m. a total of seventeen tall ships from around the world will pass under the Verrazano Bridge in a Parade of Sail, followed by 10 U.S. and foreign war ships [...]