Poly Prep Hires Prominent Former U.S. Attorney For Defense Team

By on June 18, 2012  News
Jun 182012
 

Poly Prep officials – while maintaining that they would like a “fair resolution” to a lawsuit filed by dozens of former students who say administrators covered up decades of sexual abuse – have also signaled that they have the legal wherewithal to defend the school should the case go to trial, writes Michael O’Keeffe for the Daily News.

On Friday school officials retained Mary Jo White – who was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002. White oversaw the prosecution of “Ramzi Yousef and others” convicted  in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Continue reading »

CB 10 Meets Tonight At Shore Hill Community Room!

By on June 18, 2012  Events
Jun 182012
 

Tonight, Community Board 10 will hold its monthly General Board Meeting.

The event, which is open to the public, will take place at the Shore Hill Community Room [9000 Shore Road], beginning at 7:15 p.m. The agenda [via CB 10's website] will include:

  • Presentation – Update on Owls Head Pollution Plant by Assistant DEP Commissioner Vincent Sapienza.
  • Public Hearing – In the matter of an application made to NYC Board of Standards and Appeals for the property located at 701/745 64th Street which seeks to secure a special permit allowing a reduction of the required accessory parking spaces for the two buildings at the Premises under Section 36-21 ZR for uses in parking requirement category B1 in Use Group 6 and ambulatory diagnostic or treatment facilities in Use Group 4 at the Premises.
  • Police & Public Safety Committee: SLA On Premise Renewal Application for City 9316 Inc., d/b/a Fushimi, 9316 4th Avenue; SLA On Premise Renewal Application for No Quarter, 8015 5th Avenue; New SLA Application for Taro Restaurant Inc., 7109 13th Avenue.
  • Traffic & Transportation Committee: DOT 86th Street Reconfiguration Project; Update on refurbishing of the bridge over the Belt Parkway at 69th Street as presented to the Committee by DOT.
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Street Namings: Presentation of proposed changes to current CB 10 Street Naming Guidelines.
  • Zoning & Land Use Committee: Presentation of completed PFI (Parking Fairness Initiative) Document.
  • Environmental Committee: Spectra Pipeline and the possibility of radon in natural gas from Marcellus Shale entering the NYC water supply.
  • Parks Committee: Update on Eco Dock Plans for the 69th Street Pier as presented to the Committee by Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Update on final plan for local schools to help maintain local parks on an ongoing basis.

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Seen In Bay Ridge Weekender: Bench In Transit

By on June 15, 2012  Seen In Photos
Jun 152012
 

The above photo, which comes courtesy of photographer David Tan, shows a bench on the Belt Parkway Promenade eclipsing the sun as it sets behind the Verrazano Bridge in the background. It was taken on April 24, 2012.

To see more of David’s tremendous talent, 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, please send them to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where the picture was taken and when, and how to credit the photo (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).

Gounardes Comes Out In Favor Of More Bike Lanes For Bay Ridge

By on June 15, 2012  Featured story, Politics
Jun 152012
 

A controversial bike lane on Prospect Park West in Park Slope (Image source: Kai Brinker via Flickr).

State Senate hopeful Andrew Gounardes has come out in favor of  creating more bike lanes, as well as expanding Bay Ridge’s existing bike lane “network” to neighborhoods further north – such as Park Slope and Cobble Hill, writes Will Bredderman for Brooklyn Daily. Continue reading »

Body Found Floating Near Verrazano May Be Last Week’s Jumper

By on June 14, 2012  News
Jun 142012
 

The NYPD Harbor Unit discovered a corpse floating in upper New York Bay yesterday, not far from the spot where a man had jumped from the Verrazano Bridge the week before, writes the New York Post police blotter.

The body, which appears to be that of a 46-year-old man, was found floating off Shore Road near Bay Ridge Avenue, just before 2 p.m.

Authorities are seeking to determine if the corpse’s identity is that of a man who jumped off the Verrazano Bridge last Friday.

The jumper had been tentatively identified as 46-year-old Brooklyn resident Benny Guzman. Friday’s incident was the latest in a series of suicides and attempted suicides on or near the span.

CEC 20 Meeting Tonight!

By on June 13, 2012  Events
Jun 132012
 

The Community Education Council for District 20 will be holding its June meeting tonight.

This month’s session is set to take place at P.S. 176 The Ovington School [1225 69th Street], beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Topics up for discussion will include the appointment of Lisa Sarnicola, principal of P.S. 506, honoring District 20 PTAs and PAs, and a farewell sendoff for CEC20 student member Sejndi Rusi.

For more information on this meeting – as well as future events, please visit cec20.org.

CB 10 Environmental Committee To Hold Hydrofracking Meeting Tonight

By on June 12, 2012  Events
Jun 122012
 

Source: linh.m.do via Flickr

Tonight Brooklyn Community Board 10‘s Environmental Committee will host a hearing on the controversial natural gas extraction method known as Hydraulic Fracturing or fracking.

The committee will hear a presentation by a representative from NYH2O – a nonprofit group which bills itself as being “dedicated to protecting New York’s water resources from the threat posed by the gas extraction industry.”

Concerns the advocacy group has about potential dangers from the recently approved Spectra Pipeline – including “radon in natural gas from the Marcellus Shale entering the NYC water supply” will be discussed.

A representative of the industry group Energy In Depth – which describes itself as “a research, education and public outreach campaign focused on getting the facts out about the promise and potential of responsibly developing America’s onshore energy resource base,” will also be on hand to rebut NYH2O’s argument against fracking.

This important meeting will take place at CB 10′s District office [8119 5th Ave] at 7 p.m.

A.L. Coluccio Coming To 3rd Avenue – Bay Ridge Italian specialty store a first for Louis Coluccio of D. Coluccio and Sons

By on June 12, 2012  Food & Drink
Jun 122012
 

Salumerias were once as ubiquitous to Southern Brooklyn as double parked cars. But over the years, tastes changed, new groups moved in, and the younger generation increasingly bought their cold cuts from a supermarket instead of the old fashioned pork store.

Remember that scene from Pope of Greenwich Village where Eric Roberts’ character visits three different specialty stores to buy fixings for a hero sandwich? Yeah, not really happening anymore. When was the last time you even heard of someone under 40 making a special trip to a formaggeria for cheese?

However, in this “what’s old is new again” age of cooking that puts such a heavy emphasis on buzz words like local, artisanal, traditional, authentic, and slow food, it can be comforting to hear when a student of the old pros brings family traditions – as well as some new concepts – to the table.

According to Brooklyn Daily’s Sarah Zorn, combining new innovations with old favorites seem to be the idea behind A.L. Coluccio. This “first-time solo venture” is by Louis Coluccio of Bensonhurst’s famed D. Coluccio and Sons Importers – who will attempt to meld the traditional Italian-American salumeria and grocery store with a modern cafe on Bay Ridge’s 3rd Avenue this August. Continue reading »

Police Identify Friday’s Verrazano Bridge Jumper – Incident latest in series of suicide attempts on or near span

By on June 11, 2012  News
Jun 112012
 

Image source: joo0ey via Flickr

Police have classified last Friday’s suicide leap from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge as a missing persons case. NYPD officials made the determination after search and rescue teams came up empty in the search for a body, writes Staten Island Advance.

Friday’s incident marks the fourth in a series of both successful and attempted suicides to take place on or near the bridge by different men since April. Continue reading »

Poly Prep Grad David Zarnock Gives Graphic Details Of Alleged Sex Abuse

By on June 11, 2012  News
Jun 112012
 

David Zarnock, a former NYPD detective and Poly Prep Country Day School graduate who has had run ins with the law, has shared a graphically detailed account of the sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of the school’s former football coach Phil Foglietta with reporter Michael O’Keeffe – who has been covering the story for the Daily News.

Former students, including David Hiltbrand – an entertainment reporter in Philadelphia who attended Poly Prep in the late 1960s, and Jonathan Enroth – who was enrolled at the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s, came forward to the New York Times in 2005 with detail-laden stories of abuse at the hands of the now-deceased Foglietta.

In the most recent account by Zarnock, the sexual assaults began in 1982 – when he was in 8th grade. Continue reading »

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