President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spoke at a press conference in New Jersey earlier this afternoon.
One subject the president touched on in his remarks, which may be of particular interest to our readers in neighboring areas who are still without electricity, was his pledge of continued federal support for local governments and utilities in the region trying to restore electrical service.
Obama stated that the aid could even take the form of “military cargo planes” to “move people and assets” from as far away as California to aid the blacked-out residents of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Three disgraced Bay Ridge police officers will be spending Christmas behind bars for the next couple of years, after they were sentenced by a Brooklyn federal court judge for gun-running, as reported by Will Bredderman for Brooklyn Daily.
Given the state of the economy, hopefully we didn’t speak too soon about Bay Ridge restaurants doing so exceptionally well.