Bklink: More Adventures with Picture Taking

“Sunday while I was at the point, the parks department was summonsing some paintballers, and as I was taking pictures of them, this woman who never identified herself (pictured above) said “Excuse me you can’t take pictures of officers doing their jobs“. I responded by saying that Yes I can, that’s your misinformed opinion. Nothing came of it and she continued to do her job as you can see.”–GerritsenBeach.Net

Bklink: Gerritsen Green Streets Dead

The attempt to put a Green Street into Gerritsen Beach is dead in the face of community opposition. “Green Streets died tonight. It is now a dead issue. The community really came out if force against this proposal. P.S. 277 auditorium was packed to the point that it was standing room only…Then after a resident went up and went toe to toe with the DOT arguing about street widths, Marty Golden the killed Green Streets 35 minutes after the meeting had started. If there were any people in the meeting that were for Green Streets they didn’t say anything or make their case for it.”–GerritsenBeach.Net

Battle Over Green Streets in Gerritsen Beach

Of all the things we would expect to find a fight about, the city’s “Green Streets” program is not one of them. Yet, there’s a battle about a plan in Gerritsen Beach, where GerritsenBeach.Net, which does superb work covering issues in that neighborhood and environs, has been writing about the fight, which includes some heavy-duty politicking. He emailed us to say:

I just wanted to let you know about something over here in my neck of the woods. Do you know green streets? Those are the streets that have gardens and/or trees in a median. Well my neighborhood is actually against this plan and is now turning against Marty Golden, the one who wants this. More or less we got him elected. He’s all alone on this project playing politics…A lot of people are using the term war against green streets. There is going to be a town hall tomorrow. Its a very large battle over a 1 mile stretch of land.

A war against green streets? Should be an interesting meeting. It takes place today (2/13) at 7:00 pm at P.S. 277 at 2529 Gerritsen Avenue.

"Policy Brutality" in Gerritsen Beach?

[Photo via GerritsenBeach.Net]

The telephone poles in Gerritsen Beach this weekend are sporting more than stoop sale fliers. Apparently, a bunch of fliers like the one pictured above just went up in the neighborhood related to an incident in last August. This one was photographed and posted by GerritsenBeach.Net, which keeps up with the news in that part of Brooklyn. GB writes, “On August 28th at around 6:30opm there was some sort of altercation between officers of the 61st precinct and ‘Frank, Christopher, and Steven.’ This weekend the whole old section got plastered with posters asking for witnesses to come forward…This can’t be good.” Of the people involved, the flier says the police “beat them for no reason.” We’re not sure when there are beatings for “good reason,” but “for no reason” is even worse.

New Bus Shelters Vandalized

Looking at the new bus shelters going up quickly all over the city, you knew that some of them would be magnets for vandalism. Well, GerritsenBeach.net offers up the pic above on flickr and blog entries showing what’s happened to at least one of them. First, it was tagged up. Then, the glass was busted up. Then, someone hung a sign on it. Let’s hope it’s the exception rather than the rule.

Memorial Day Weekend in Gerritsen Beach

[Photo courtesy GerritsenBeach.net]

The Kiddie Beach in Gerritsen Beach had its opening day yesterday and some great photos like the one above were posted by GerritsenBeach.Net, a blog we totally enjoy that brings news from that corner of Brooklyn. We love the photo above, so we figured we post it and direct your attention to another part of Brooklyn as it celebrated the start of the summer season and Memorial Day.