In what is expected to be a hotly contested race for the 46th assembly seat, Mathylde Frontus of Coney Island will be the first of many to officially announce her candidacy tomorrow. Pamela Harris, who faces several charges for misappropriating city and federal funds, abandoned the assembly seat last week. The district includes Coney Island and Sea Gate and parts […]
Shola Olatoye, the embattled New York City Housing Authority chair is slated to step down from her post today according to several reports. Olatoye first came under fire after last year when reports confirmed the public housing chair falsely signed documents confirming annual lead inspections. The incident preceded a series of NYCHA administrative and operational setbacks including failed boilers and […]
CONEY ISLAND – The embattled Assemblymember Pamela Harris has resigned. Harris represented the 46th Assembly district which includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Sea Gate. Reportedly, Harris submitted her letter of resignation to Speaker Carl E. Heastie yesterday. The former assemblymember is accused of misappropriating city and federal funds, charges that lend themselves to 11 federal charges […]
Members of the Brooklyn Teen Republican Club (BTRC) rallied in front of embattled Assemblymember Pamela Harris’ (D-Coney Island Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights) Bay Ridge office yesterday to call for her resignation in light of several federal indictments the lawmaker faces. Harris is facing a number of felony corruption charges and remains in office while she is awaiting her day in […]
Councilmembers Alicka Ampry-Samuel (D–Brownsville, parts of Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, East Flatbush) and Ritchie Torres (D–Bronx) recruited celebrity power to a city hall rally today, in hopes to bring more attention to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) crisis. Nearly two-dozen New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents held signs and chanted, “Enough is enough,” to protest the recent […]
Candidates Ross Barkan (D) and Andrew Gounardes (D) running to unseat State Sen. Marty Golden (R- Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Marine Park and Manhattan Beach) dropped in on the Independent Neighborhood Democrats Club’s (IND) monthly meeting in downtown Brooklyn to rally Democratic support and bash the incumbent. Neither candidate said anything about the other but railed against […]
This article was originally posted on Kings County Politics, but since the Department of Transportation did not respond to me within a reasonable time period, the editor ran the story without DOT’s input. I thought it imperative to inform the constituents of Bay Ridge about a caveat DOT mentioned in their response concerning street paving and ticket adjudication.
