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Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz might be looking to hold a small private meeting with the heads of both the SB/PBCA and the Bay Improvement Group regarding plans for the Golden Gate Inn, located on the corner of Knapp St. and Shore Pkwy. According to sources, Markowitz and his staff are very anxious to set up the meeting.

Rumor is that the plans include a deal with a major hotel company purchasing the land and building both a larger hotel and an apartment building.

Some whispers have even said low to middle-income housing on the site. According to sources, the meeting is supposed to be one-on-one-on-one with the heads of the organization, with others strictly prohibited.

Word of organizing this meeting also apparently got back to Senator Marty Golden. According to multiple sources, Golden was told that the meeting was to get the “feelings of the community” regarding possible projects, but at least one source says that the Senator did not believe that a meeting with two people would adequately express the “feelings of the community.” Golden also supposedly told Markowitz that he wants to be included in any discussion regarding the Golden Gate Inn, which is in his district.

I guess no one from the Property Owners or GBCares was invited because we aren’t included in anything…ever. With that said and completely jumping topics, Green Streets are coming whether we like it or not. If we had a community as strong as lets say Manhattan Beach, we would get @#$% done!

Ive said it before:

Although there is something comforting about the small-town feeling of Gerritsen Beach, we are not an island. We are part of a larger community in one of the biggest cities in the world. We are tax-paying, voting citizens and we NEED representation in the outside world or we will be forgotten about.

There really hasn’t been any news  recently so I kept track of my trip on the B31.

To Kings Highway (Empty - 15 Minutes)

• 9:10 am - Lois Avenue
• 9:11 am - Library
• 9:15 am - Ave V
• 9:17 am - Ave U
• 9:21 am - Nostrand
• 9:24 am - Ocean Ave
• 9:25 am - Kings Highway

From Kings Highway (Standing Room Only - 16 Minutes)

• 7:10 pm - Kings Highway
• 7:12 pm - Ocean Avenue
• 7:14 pm - Bedford Avenue
• 7:15 pm - Nostrand
• 7:16 pm - on Gerritsen Avenue
• 7:19 pm - Avenue U
• 7:21 pm - Brynes
• 7:22 pm - Channel Avenue
• 7:24 pm - Library
• 7:26 pm - Lois Avenue

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Via NY Post

Deadbeat restaurants owe more than $14 million for health-code violations, and The Brooklyn landmark Lundy’s closed last year with a debt of $9,450

Check out Nugget and Onyx courts on this city map but where is the “M” named court?

The Riveria Suites property put up a hay and sheet barrier along the water side.

Maybe this is to stop all of the dirt from blowing around, maybe its supposed to stop the imminent collapse of more of the property, or maybe they are going to start giving hay rides to local children.

If all of a sudden they are giving out hay rides I will be first in line, on second thought its way too cold.

T.G.I. Fridays 3181 Harkness Avenue experienced a fire last night. No word on damages or where it actually happened more to come.

Via Reuters

Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.

The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York’s Public Art Fund.

“It’s about seeing water in a different way,” Eliasson told a news conference on Wednesday, unveiling plans for the waterfalls, which will range in height from 90 to 120 feet — around the same as the Statue of Liberty from head to toe.

Three of the waterfalls will cascade into the East River and New York Harbor from free-standing scaffolding towers that Eliasson said were part of his artistic vision, mirroring the scaffolding towers that sprout up throughout New York. The falls will be in place from mid-July to mid-October.

City officials are hoping to emulate the success of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s project, “The Gates,” which drew around 1.5 million visitors to the city in February 2005 to view about 7,500 saffron panels draped through Central Park.

Increased hotel, restaurant and other business revenues linked to the waterfalls should bring an additional $55 million to the city’s economy, Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris said.

The Circle Line Downtown boat company will offer free and discounted trips to give visitors a closer look at the waterfalls.

But Eliasson said the tour boats would not be able to get as close to the water as tourist boats do to New York state’s most famous waterfall, Niagara Falls, on the Canadian border.

“It’s quite a lot of water, it would not be good to go under,” Eliasson said. The scaffolding will have a floating barrier at the bottom to stop small boats going underneath and a “shark cage” under the water to stop fish being sucked into the pumps that will take the water to the top.

The pumps will be powered by renewable energy sources and the falls will be lit only by low-level lighting at night that Eliasson said would be “not Las Vegas-style.”

Eliasson, who was born in Copenhagen in 1967, is best known for his 2003 installation “The Weather Project” at the Tate Modern in London, a giant sun made of mirrors, lamps and mist that drew over 2 million viewers.

Brooklyn and New York City’s first sanctioned barbecue contest is set for Memorial Day weekend 2008, to benefit the Corliss Johnson Memorial Foundation and The American Cancer Society. It is being held at and sponsored Kingsborough Community College.

There will be $20,000 total in cash prizes.

Its a long way away right now, but this should be an interesting event make sure your there.

• Saturday - May 24 is going to be a Grilling Contest of Fish, Duck, Lamb and Chef’s Choice
• Sunday - May 25 there will be a Barbecue Contest of Chicken, Pork Ribs, Pork Shoulder and Beef Brisket

Website: www.grillinonthebay.org