Bay Ridge Democrats' Holiday Party at Longbow

According to an email today from President Justin Brannan, local progressive Democratic club Bay Ridge Democrats, in lieu of its monthly meeting (on Thursday, December 11), will host its 2014 holiday party on Wednesday, December 17 at one of the club's favorite venues: the Longbow Pub and Pantry at 7316 Third Avenue in Bay Ridge.



Bringing along one or more cans of food for the holiday food

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Gentile: Hire More Police Officers

In response to Mayor de Blasio's release this week of an update to the city's financial plan, City Council Member Vinnie Gentile called on the deBlasio administration to allocate money in the New York City Police Department's budget to hire more police officers.



There are 6,000 fewer police officers on the streets today than on September 11, 2001, Gentile said. During the Bloomberg

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The South Brooklyn to the Rockaways Beer Tour

According to an e-mail blast today from Faye Penn, founder of Brokelyn, the webmag has released its first paper publication, "The South Brooklyn and The Rockaways Beer Book".

Inside this limited-edition, pocket-sized booklet, you will find 28 vouchers, redeemable for 28 beers at 28 bars in Gravesend, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and the

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Christmas Craft Fair at St. Andrew the Apostle Church

From 9 AM to 6 PM on December 6, and from 9 AM to 2:30 PM on December 7, St. Andrew the Apostle Church, at 6713 Ridge Blvd. in Bay Ridge, will host its annual Christmas Craft Fair to benefit the St. Vincent De Paul Society.



The Fair is the main source of funding for the St. Vincent De Paul Food Pantry, which serves an average of 30 families a month.



At the Fair, you'll find unique,

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Burglars Hit Churches in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Sunset Park

The New York Times reports that during October and November, eleven churches in the southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Sunset Park have been burglarized.



Marks, including Roman Catholic basilica Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park and Fourth Avenue Presbyterian in Bay Ridge, have been chosen without regard to denomination.




In each break-in, cash and

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WTC Disability Law Application Period Extended

In a move praised by first responders, Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law S7628-A/A9562-A, a bill that amends state law governing the injuries and illnesses of those who took part in the 9/11 rescue, recovery and cleanup at the World Trade Center.

The legislation re-opens the filing period and extends the deadline for those with WTC-related conditions who have not yet applied for

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Park Slope BID a Small Business Saturday Star

A handful of Park Slope shopkeepers are starring in a national ad campaign for Small Business Saturday, the “shop local” alternative to corporate retail’s Black Friday doorbusters.

The national promotion, created by credit card giant American Express, highlights mom and pop shops and boutiques in Park Slope's Fifth Ave. Business Improvement District, from 18th St. to the Barclays Center, as a

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City's Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens Overwhelmed

Due to Congress' drastic cuts to food stamp benefits, 80% of New York City's food pantries and soup kitchens face increased demands for emergency food.

The impact of the food stamp cuts on the city's emergency food resources is widespread and ongoing. In September, 60% of the city's food pantries ran out of at least one kind of food, and at more than a third of them, hungry people had to be

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Stolen Verrazano Relief Replaced

At 11 AM on Wednesday, December 3, Council Member Vinnie Gentile, with other elected officials and community leaders, will officially unveil a replica of the long-lost bas relief of Giovanni da Verrazano at the Memorial Flagstaff at John J. Carty Park, at 95th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway in Bay Ridge.

Installed when the bridge opened in 1964, the Verrazano Memorial Flagstaff, a

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Decorations for the Departed, Green-Wood

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NYC on the Short List to Host the Democratic National Convention

According to an email blast today from City Council Member Vinnie Gentile, New York City has been named as a finalist to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016.

Gentile attributed the city's placement on the short list of contenders to Mayor Bill de Blasio's spirited pitch for Brooklyn, where the convention would be hosted at the Barclays Center on Atlantic Avenue.



Announcing the

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Ribbon Cutting at The Dyker Park Dog Run

Good news for Fido. Council Member Vinnie Gentile will be on hand at 11 AM tomorrow, Tuesday, November 25, to cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new Dyker Park Dog Run, at the corner of 86th Street and 7th Avenue in Dyker Heights.



Raffles and prizes for your best friend from favorite local pet stores Vinny’s Pet Shop, Petland Bay Ridge, the Animal Pantry, and Paws Truly.

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Parking Lots as Shared Public Spaces

According to one study, there are eight parking spots for every car in America, and 30 for every resident of Houston, Texas.

In his 2012 book “Rethinking a Lot,” MIT urban planning professor Eran Ben-Joseph points out that parking lots cover more than a third of the land area in some U.S. cities, which he calls the "single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.” There could

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"I Hope He Spins in His Grave When We Get this Bike Path"

Although originally designed for a pedestrian walkway, the Verrazano Bridge is open to foot and two-wheeled traffic only two days a year: during the New York City Marathon and the Five-Borough Bike Tour.

Interviewed by a Brooklyn Paper reporter at a 50th anniversary party for the Verrazano at Bay Ridge's Yellow Hook Grille on November 20, Linda Sladek, of cycling advocacy organization Harbor

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What Does It take to Replace a Street Tree?

The New York Post reports that for four years now, Bay Ridge resident Mary Ann Walsh has been trying to get the city Parks Department to replace the 100-year-old street tree in front of her home on 76th Street, which fell during a storm.



After approving her request, the NYC Parks Department has failed to replace the tree, instead coming up with a string of excuses that Walsh says make no

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Li-Lac Chocolates Targeted by UPROSE

When ninety-one-year-old Li-Lac, Manhattan's oldest chocolatier, found itself priced out of manufacturing space in Manhattan, it moved to Sunset Park. The move was at least partly motivated by the fact that Master Chocolatier Anwar Khoder, a longtime Bay Ridge resident, would have a shorter commute.

After ten years, Li-Lac outgrew its factory space at 50th Street and moved to Industry City on

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WCC Project Elf Fundraiser at Brooklyn Brewery

Superstorm Sandy hit just two months before Christmas, 2012. In the aftermath, thousands of displaced families were either unable to provide gifts for their children or couldn't replace gifts destroyed by the storm surge.



Two years later, contrary to the public perception of recovery and resiliency, many of those families are still struggling to pull their lives back together.



From 7:30

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Trottenberg Wants Better Bike Access to City Bridges

As reported by AMNY, the city Department of Transportation, in a move sure to give hope to advocates for a bike lane on the Verrazano bridge, will study ways to improve bike access to the city's four East River bridges and the Harlem River bridges.



In accouncing the study to the City Council last week, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said that DOT would also work with MTA to install bike

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Local Toys for Tots Drop Off Sites Open Through December 19

According to Toys for Tots Brooklyn, the following Bay Ridge sites are now accepting toy drop-offs through December 19:



Fort Hamilton High School Key Club: Tanja Larsen
11/10/2014 - 12/19/2014
8 AM - 3:40 PM
8301 Shore Road, Brooklyn, New York, 11209
347-400-5476
Bay Ridge Honda: Mime Quinones
11/26/2014 - 12/19/2014
Mon- Thur 9am to 9pm, Fri 9am -7pm, Sat 9am - 6pm Sun 11am -5pm
8801 4th

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Brooklyn Housing Preservation Alliance Meets

At 7:30 PM on Monday, November 24, in the basement meeting room at St. Ephrem's Rectory at 929 Bay Ridge Parkway in Dyker Heights, the Brooklyn Housing Preservation Alliance will convene to plan a town hall meeting in January, 2015 on illegal home conversions in Brooklyn.

Members, concerned local residents and their friends, family and neighbors are welcome to attend the meeting.

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Gentile Bucks City Council on Chokehold Bills

In a statement issued by his office today, City Council Member Vinnie Gentile, a former prosecutor and State Senator, strongly opposed the legislation, which he said would "handcuff" the NYPD.



If passed, the new City Council legislation would make it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine, for a New York City police officer to use a chokehold, and would

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Jeff Samaha Theater Presents True-Crime Musical "Parade"

Coming off of its enormously successful production of musical "Les Miserables", Jeff Samaha Theater Productions/Ridge Chorale will open a limited run of the powerful, Tony Award-winning musical "Parade", the rarely-presented true story of an infamous miscarriage of justice in the American South, at 8 PM on Friday, December 5 at the High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology (Bay Ridge

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Golden: Flatbush Fire Illustrates the Illegal Conversion Problem

In the aftermath of an early-morning fire on Wednesday at an illegally-subdivided building at 1434 Flatbush Avenue that killed a young father, left six in critical condition, and injured a total of 15, State Senator Marty Golden again called on Mayor Bill deBlasio to create a multi-agency task force to confront the illegal conversion problem in his district and citywide.

Continuing to ignore

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Free Flu Shots at NYU-Langone in Cobble Hill

The best way to avoid coming down with a winter flu, which can be life-threatening for someone who is elderly or has chronic lung disease, is to get an annual flu shot. 



NYU-Langone in Cobble Hill (formerly Long Island College Hospital) is offering free flu shots to adults 18 years and older on Saturday November 22 from 10 AM to 6 PM and Sunday, November 23 from 10 AM to 2 PM.


Enter

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Small Business Saturday in Bay Ridge

Started by American Express in 2010 as a promotional event, Small Business Saturday, on November 29, has intersected with the "Buy Local" movement and taken on a life of its own. American consumers are increasingly aware that small businesses hold down Main Street, giving back to the community well beyond the retail value of what they sell.


As Black Friday looms, Madie Hodges, the community

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Find the Nearest New York Cares Coat Drop-Off

The 26th Annual New York Cares Coat Drive began this month and will continue through the end of the year. You can drop off your old (but not too old) coats at 280 locations citywide, including precinct houses and car dealerships.

To find the drop-off location closest to you, visit this searchable map.

If you're a local merchant and want to host a collection site or start your own New York

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Christmas Tree Lightings at McKinley Park, Lady Moody Square

Brooklyn Media Group Photo

At 6:30 PM on Wednesday, December 3, State Senator Marty Golden will host a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at McKinley Park, at Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton Parkways in Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights.

Golden will host a second Christmas tree lighting at 6:30 PM on Thursday, December 4 at Lady Moody Square, at Van Sicklen Street and Avenue U in Gravesend.

Santa Claus is

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Annual Christmas and Novelty Sale at Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church

From 9:30 AM to 3 PM on Saturday November 22, the Women's Association of Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church (between 68th and Senator Streets) in Bay Ridge, will host its Annual Christmas and Novelty Sale in the Church Hall at 6753 4th Avenue (R train to Bay Ridge Avenue.)

The sale continues on Sunday, November 23 from 1-3 PM; Monday, November 24, from 12-2 PM; Wednesday, November 26 from

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Thanksgiving Dinner for Families of Childhood Cancer Victims

On Friday, November 21, the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation will deliver Thanksgiving dinner to 23 families in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area who are coping with childhood cancer, including families in Williamsburg and Prospect/Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.

The Jay Fund's mission is to ease the financial, emotional and practical impacts of a childhood cancer diagnosis on families.

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Mathylde Frontus Honored

USA Network/Eugene Gologursky

At a ceremony last night at Garguilo's attended by Council Member Mark Treyger, Coney Island resident and founder and executive director of Urban Neighborhood Services Mathylde Frontus was honored by the USA Network for her impactful work in combating racial injustice.



Mathylde received a $5,000 grant from the USA Network and will be featured in a PSA and

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ESL Conversation at Fort Hamilton Branch Library

Starting today, Monday, November 17 through January 12, 2015, the Fort Hamilton Branch Library, at 9424 4th Avenue (@ 95th Street) in Fort Hamilton, will host weekly Monday meetings from 2-4 PM of the Chinese American Club, a bilingual conversation group.

Activities include language practice, music, movies, and discussion of current events.

All English-Cantonese and English-Mandarin

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Sidewalk Parking, Fourth Avenue

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Local School Overcrowding Linked to Illegal Home Conversions

According to a Brooklyn Daily report, residents of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst who blame an epidemic of illegal home conversions for overcrowded local schools complain that the city is failing to connect the dots.



To see if it could make Community Board 10 education chair Bob Hudock's point that school overcrowding and illegal conversions in Community Board Districts 10 and 11

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"The Life and Times of Enrico Caruso" at BRHS

At 7:30 PM on Wednesday, November 19, the Bay Ridge Historical Society will present "The Life and Times of Enrico Caruso" at Shore Hill Neighborhood Center (in the Community Room between the East and West Buildings), at 9000 Shore Road in Bay Ridge.

The event is free and open to the general public. Light refreshments will be served.

The featured speaker is Aldo Mancusi, founder/curator of the

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Lola Star Pops up in Williamsburg for the Holidays

The Raw Space

Lola Star will bring the glamour and glitter of Coney Island to Williamsburg this holiday season with a new Wonderland Holiday Gift Boutique at 193 Bedford Ave between N6th and N7th.



This pop-up offspring of Coney Island Boutiques will launch a new collection of Brooklyn-themed tee shirts, jewelry and collectibles, as well as offering an array of gifts, accessories, quirky

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"PJs for PJ", a Pajama Party for Pietro's Fight

State Senator Marty Golden has partnered with Pietro’s Fight to announce “PJ’S for PJ”, a December 18 fundraiser on for Pietro J. Scarso, a Bay Ridge boy battling Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

The event organizers are calling on local schools to ask students to wear their pajamas to school on December 18 and to make a suggested donation of $5 to support medical research to find a cure for DMD

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Consumer Reports Rates the Affordable Care Act

According to Consumer Reports, "Obamacare" (The Affordable Care Act) for which the second annual enrollment period opened today, has been a godsend for the neediest Americans, but for higher-income families, not so much.

The White House reports that more than 100,000 people applied for healthcare coverage on the first day of the second enrollment period, with few complaints about the website -

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50th Anniversary Celebration for the Verrazano at Yellow Hook Grille

From 7:30 to 9:30 PM on Thursday, November 20, you're invited to join the Harbor Ring and the Third Avenue Merchants in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Verrazano Bridge at Yellow Hook Grille, at 7003 Third Avenue in Bay Ridge.

While toasting the Bridge's 50th, you can learn about the campaign to create a bicyle/pedestrian pathway on the Verrazano as part of the Harbor Ring, a 50-mile

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Bay Ridge Democrats Compile a List of Suspects

At a lively, well-attended post-election bull session last night at the Bridgeview Diner, progressive political club Bay Ridge Democrats and an invited panel of political wonks mulled the causes of the midterm rout on November 4 that saw Conservative Republican incumbents Marty Golden and Michael Grimm re-elected and Republicans seizing control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress and the New

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Enrollment Opens for New York State Health Plan Marketplace

NY State of Health, the New York State Health Plan Marketplace, provides individuals, families and businesses with under 50 employees with access to quality health insurance.

The Marketplace, administered as part of the Federal Health Care Reform Law, is for those who have no insurance coverage now or who have insurance (other than Medicare) but want to look at other options.

The Open

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Open House at Visitation Academy

On Thursday, November 20, Visitation Academy, a girls' Catholic academy (nursery through grade 8) at 8902 Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge, will host an Open House for prospective students and their parents. The Lower School will be open at 9 AM and the Middle School at 11:30 AM.

Visitation, a Gilder Lerhrman Affiliate, offers STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), web-based

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"First Bite" at Contrada

On November 17 at 7 PM (doors open at 6) Contrada, at 84 East Fourth Street at Second Avenue in Brooklyn, will host "First Bite", a reading of the first page of a selection of books published this fall, curated by Louise Crawford.

Free appetizers, a cash bar and a small plates menu from Contrada.  


Featured authors, who will be on hand to chat and sign books, are:  John Benditt, Cathy

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Fundraiser for Holy Cross Brookyn Outreach Center at Burger Up

On Tuesday, November 18 from 7-9 PM, Burger Up, at 8812 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge, will host a Community Fundraiser to benefit the Holy Cross Brooklyn Outreach Center, a tax-exempt not-for-profit providing a wholistic program of spiritual, social and economic help to individuals.

For more information, call 718-866-7280 or email info@hcboc.org.

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Bay Ridge Tops Brooklyn in Rent Increases

According to AMNY, a new report from real estate firm MNS showed average monthly rent increases in Bay Ridge topping every other Brooklyn neighborhood last month.



Bay Ridge saw a 9.4% spike in average rents for studios and one-bedroom apartments in October compared to the same month last year. An average studio in Bay Ridge rented for $1,389 last month, compared to $1,157 just a year ago.

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Hunter's Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Verrazano Bridge

From 7-10 PM on Thursday, November 13, vocalist Martin McQuade, accompanied by pianist Pete Sokolow, will offer a program of song hits from the year 1964 ("Downtown", "Goldfinger", "Sunrise, Sunset", and more) at a Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Verrazano Bridge at Hunter's Steak and Ale House, 9404 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

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The Santa Shuffle 5K in Bay Ridge

On three days in three Brooklyn locations, Rockapulco Run will host the annual Santa Shuffle 5K, featuring walking, running, eating, drinking, and dancing.

The Bay Ridge event is scheduled for Saturday, December 6. The race starts at 11 AM. Registration and suit pick up are at Pipin's Pub, at 9701 on 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge, from 9:30 to 10:45 AM.

The run will start and finish on the Shore

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Cornice, 7th Avenue

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"Just Like Embers"

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Bullshots Has Fired Its Last

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Bensonhurst Landlord to Serve Time in Deathtrap Fire that Killed Five

In a precedent-setting outcome, Vasilios Gerazounis, owner of the illegally-subdivided three-story brick building at 2033 86th Street in Bensonhurst where five Guatemalan immigrants died in a fire on January 30, 2010, pled guilty on October 15 to criminally negligent homicide and will be sentenced in February 2015 to 1-3 years in prison.

As part of the plea deal, Gerazounis’ real estate

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Curling Club Launched at Lakeside

The LeFrak Center at Lakeside, the only New York City skating facility to offer officially-sanctioned curling events, has announced the official launch of the Brooklyn Lakeside Curling Club.



The club hosted an open house on November 9 for curlers looking to brush up on their skills or to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and hopes to add curling clinics and

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Small-Time Weed Possession Now a Ticket

As reported by the Daily News, the NYPD, starting November 19, will stop arresting people caught with 25 grams or less of marijuana, issuing a $100-200 ticket (summons) instead.





You can still be arrested for smoking weed the street, for looking stoned or for refusing to sign a ticket.



The practice of routinely arresting people caught with a baggie of marijuana goes back to the Guiliani

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The Gowanus E-Waste Recycling Center

As of January 1, 2015, it will be illegal for New Yorkers to put their old TV sets, VHS tapes and desktop computers out with the trash.

What then? One option is the two-year-old E-waste recycling center run by the Lower East Side Ecology Center at 469 President Street (@Nevins Street, a block from the Superfunded Gowanus Canal.)

E-waste recycling advocates Christine Datz-Romero and husband

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Ferns, Sterling Place

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Prop. 1 and the Illusion of Reform

On Tuesday, New York State voters, by a margin of 57-43%, approved an obscure ballot proposal that will establish a legislatively-appointed 10-member panel to draw the states' electoral districts.

Some good government groups supported the proposed constitutional amendment as an effort to end gerrymandering. Opponents countered that a legislatively-appointed eight-member commission that could

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Bush Terminal Pier Park Now Open

The ribbon-cutting for Brooklyn's newest park, the long-awaited Bush Terminal Pier in Sunset Park, will be on November 12.

The Sunset Park Restoration group, a park advocate since the 1990s, will be part of the celebration.

The city quietly opened the 11-acre green space earlier this week.



Open hours are from 8 AM to 4 PM.



Bush Terminal Pier is a former toxic waste site extending from

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Veteran's Day Celebration at PS 216

The public is invited to a Veterans' Day Celebration honoring the Jewish War Veterans of New York City and the members of American Legion Marlboro Post #1437, at 9:15 AM on November 18 in the auditorium at PS 216, at 350 Avenue X in Gravesend.

The event is an outgrowth of the bond of friendship and gratitude between the students of PS 216 and the members of Marlboro Post #1437.


RSVP to

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The Gentrification of a "Plague-Stricken Spot"

An 1833 Quarantine on Staten Island.

Writing for BKLYNR, a subscription-based indie site, Bay Ridge journalist Henry Stewart revisits the 19th century Yellow Fever epidemic that led to Bay Ridge's emergence as the "Greenwich Village of Brooklyn."



One of the most feared diseases of the 18th and 19th centuries, Yellow Fever is believed to have followed the slave trade out of Africa, killing

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Bay Ridge Democrats' Post-Mortem at the Bridgeview

In an email blast to its members, the Bay Ridge Democrats asked the pertinent question what happens, now that Republicans have seized control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress and the New York State Senate, in an election that saw a Republican overthrow of Congress for the first time in 8 years, and the state's lowest voter turnout since the early 1970s?


The club will convene a special

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"Gentrification Bingo" Arrives in Southwest Brooklyn

Brooklyn Magazine reports, based on new figures from Massey Knakal Real Estate, that with Crown Heights, Bushwick and Williamsburg having fallen to gentrification, southwest Brooklyn is its new target.

Building sales in Sunset Park, Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge have risen by 57% percent, according to M-K. And even with north Brooklyn real estate still red hot, southwest Brooklyn accounted for 25%

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Free Regina Opera Performance of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" at OLPH

Free Performance with "Covers"

At 7:30 PM on Tuesday, November 18, Regina Opera Company will stage a free performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" at Our Lady of Perpetual Help auditorium at 5902 6th Avenue in Sunset Park.





This performance, sung in Italian with English super-titles, will feature understudies (covers) in the featured roles, with piano accompaniment.  Gregory

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Brooklyn Preservation Council Meets at Scotto's

The Brooklyn Preservation Council will host its monthly meeting at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 12 at the Scotto Funeral Home,  106 First Place in Carroll Gardens. 


On the meeting agenda are reports on community concerns; the Sunset Park Historic District; the Carroll Gardens landmarking project; the Marylander Memorial Park Plan; and a related documentary film and book.


For more

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Vince Mazza One-Act Festival at St. John's Parish Hall

Brooklyn One Productions presents the 2014 Vince Mazza ONE/Act Festival November 7, 8 and 9, with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and on Sunday at 3 PM, at St. John's Parish Hall, 461 99th Street in Fort Hamilton/Bay Ridge.

Tickets are just $5.

For more information, or to make a donation, visit the website.

Check #mazzafest14 for Twitter updates.

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Ecce Cuomo

Will Democrats remember, four years down the road, Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez wondered, how Machiavellian Andrew Cuomo sailed to a second term as governor by throwing progressives under the bus?

To wrest the Working Families Party endorsement away from progressive Democrat Zephyr Teachout, Cuomo made a deal with the WFP's backers, including labor unions and other progressive groups, to

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PIYO at Baby Mama

On Sundays at 9, 10 and 11 AM and Thursdays at 8:30 PM, Baby Mama, at 90th Street and 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge, will host hour-long sessions of PIYO Live, an aerobic hybrid of Pilates and Yoga.

All levels are welcome. Bring water, a yoga mat and a towel.

To register (advance registration required) email fitmomcoachk@gmail.com

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Greek School of Plato Texas Hold'em Fundraiser at Tom's

At 8:30 PM (doors open at 7) on Friday, November 7, Tom's Coney Island, at 1229 Boardwalk West, will host a Texas Hold'em Tournament as a fundraiser for the Greek School of Plato, at 479 81st Street in Bay Ridge.

Directions: Belt to Exit 68/Cropsey Avenue South/right onto Cropsey/straight to Coney Island/left onto Surf/right on Stillwell Avenue/restaurant at end of block on the Boardwalk

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A Grimm Reality

In a race that one Staten Island voter, interviewed by the Daily News, characterized as a contest between a "guy who can't speak" and a "criminal", the criminal won.

Conservative/Republican Congressional Representative Michael Grimm won a third term in a Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, largely thanks to the Staten Island end of the 11th CD.


U.S. House - District

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The Lineage Project: Teaching Mindfulness to Incarcerated Youth

From November 12 - 25, Social Sutras, an online community-building portal for the New York City yoga community that curates yoga and philanthropic events, will host a series of discount classes to raise funds for the Lineage Project, a non-profit organization teaching yoga and meditation to at-risk and incarcerated youth.



This first-ever "Restaurant Week"-style celebration (@ #YogisUnite),

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Writing War: a Veteran's Day Reading at the Old Stone House

At 8 PM on Veterans Day, November 11, Brooklyn Reading Works, partnered with Words After War, will present 'Writing War," a special Veteran's Day reading featuring Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who write fiction and memoir, at the Old Stone House/Washington Park, 336 Third Street in Park Slope (F to 4th Avenue/R to Union Street.)

This year's program includes writers/memoirists/veterans

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The Disappeared

"Mid-Life Missing Persons", an item from Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, is the first mainstream media mention I've seen of something I've puzzled over in recent years: has the number of missing people in New York City been going up, or are we simply more aware of the disappearances now due to the proliferation of social media outlets like Facebook?

According to Stasi disappearances of

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Local Parochial Schools Get State Funds for Security Equipment

According to a media release from State Senator Marty Golden, he has awarded more than $68,000 in State funding to five local Catholic schools: St. Anselm Catholic Academy, St. Bernadette Catholic School, St. Ephrem Catholic School, St.Patrick Catholic Academy, and Holy Angels Catholic Academy.

The schools will use the funding to help buy surveillance cameras, intercoms, lighting, replacement

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A Choice We Can't Afford to Make

A cynical Daily News Editorial Board, chanting "Anybody but Recchia", has recklessly endorsed federally-indicted Conservative/Republican Michael Grimm over Democratic challenger Domenic Recchia in the bitterly-contested, high-stakes congressional race in the 11th CD.




While desperate times, as the Daily News says, call for desperate measures, the times aren't so desperate as to justify

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