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Death At Ridge Boulevard Apartment Being Investigated As Potential Suicide
Photo by Michael Gaffey Local news outlets have reported that a man fell to his death from an apartment building on Ridge Boulevard near 68th Street. The fall occurred after 10am yesterday, May 4,...
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Before Hipsters on Bikes, It Was “Modern Swains” on Roller Skates
Via Eagle Archives When not killing people with impunity, today’s New York motorists bemoan the hipsters on their bicycles, who, they argue, disobey the laws while creating dangerous conditions on the...
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[UPDATE X2] Building Collapse Forces Popular Bay Ridge Restaurant to Close
Photo by Hey Ridge UPDATE: “There was not an actual ‘collapse’ but an irresponsible demolition of the house on 76th that compromised a wall and the adjacent Tanoreen structure,” Juamana Bishara from...
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Do We Really Need a New Traffic Light at Third Avenue and 99th Street?
Should I stay or should I go? Photo by Hey Ridge Why has the city chosen to place a new traffic light at 99th Street and Third Avenue when, a mere 50 feet away, there is already a light—at Marine...
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City Will Spray Pesticides in Bay Ridge
Map of the spray zone. Via nyc.gov Tomorrow, Wednesday August 19, 2015, the city will spray a pesticide in Bay Ridge and other neighborhoods to the east, along Gravesend Bay, to kill mosquitoes and...
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The Streets in Bay Ridge Are Collapsing Again
The 64th Street Sinkhole. Via the Wall Street Journal A massive sinkhole opened two weeks ago, just over the Bay Ridge border, on Fifth Avenue and 64th Street, but in the meantime smaller sinkholes...
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How Many People Were Shot in Bay Ridge This Year?
Screenshot via Slate While news of mass shootings occupy the nation, sparking renewed debates about gun control, it’s worth wondering, how many of my neighbors died from gun-related violence? The Gun...
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The End of the Hookah Bar?
Photo by Michael Gaffey, for Hey Ridge By David Farley Hookah bars are a familiar presence in Bay Ridge—but if the city council has its way, they may soon be a thing of the past. Over the past several...
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A Ghost Bike in Bay Ridge Is On the Wrong Corner
Photo by Hey Ridge A ghost bike appeared in Bay Ridge on May 21—but it looks like it was locked up in the wrong spot! “Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on...
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A Bay Ridge Official’s Attack on Immigrant IDs
Assemblymembers Castorina and Malliotakis in Staten Island last week. Photo for Hey Ridge A New York State assemblymember who represents Bay Ridge and Staten Island has co-filed a lawsuit to prevent...
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Did Our Parking Obsession Get a Senior Killed?
Via WPIX11 Here is what we know about the three-car crash in Dyker Heights that killed Helen Malinowski, an 89-year-old resident of Sunset Park: On Sunday afternoon (December 17, around 2:45pm), a car...
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More Bay Ridge Pedestrians Injured on Fourth Avenue Since Safety Measures...
An analysis of data from the NYC Vision Zero web site by Hey Ridge shows pedestrian injuries on Bay Ridge’s Fourth Avenue have risen since Community Board 10 rejected the key safety measures proposed...
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The Roles an Islamic Center Plays in Bay Ridge
Via Google (Reposted from Bay Ridge for Social Justice’s Facebook page.) The third-annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day march in Bay Ridge, in support of immigrants and other marginalized groups, ended...
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The Bad Old Days: The Mad Mail Bomber Who Struck Bay Ridge
The Kipp House, ca. 1983–88. Via department of records Part of an irregular series of historical articles called The Bad Old Days, detailing true crimes in Bay Ridge from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. On...
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Protesters Challenge the NRA in Dyker Heights
Photo by the author for Hey Ridge By David Farley More than a dozen demonstrators turned out at the last minute Thursday evening at the Knights of Columbus in Dyker Heights (1305 86th Street) to...
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