BROWNSVILLE – A day after officially announcing her New York State gubernatorial run, Cynthia Nixon delivered a fiery speech in front of almost 100 local residents and reporters in Brownsville yesterday. Following months of a rumored gubernatorial run, Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series, Sex and The City, released a video on Monday […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every holiday season, the number of workers at Brooklyn-based online retailer UncommonGoods grows by the hundreds, swelling the company from its payroll of 200 employees to 1,000 or more. Jamel Venn-Simmons, 37, of East New York, is happy to be one of them. “They’re a really good company,” says Venn-Simmons, who tracks down merchandise for outbound packages. “On the weekends they give us […]
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.