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Senator Golden’s Mid-Summer Celebration

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Grilled Corn!!!

Senator Golden along with Marine Park Civic put on a great weekend long Mid-Summer Celebration. It was filled with rides, food, and entertainment.

Photo Gallery – Flickr
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Senator Golden Concerts in Marine Park

Concerts 2010

  • 7/14 – NY Exceptions (Oldies 50-60?s) – Marine Park (Fillmore Avenue)
  • 7/20 – Risky Business (Oldies 60-70?s) – 79th Street and Shore Road
  • 7/21 – The Rockinghams (Best of the 60?s & British Rock) – Marine Park (Fillmore Avenue)
  • 7/27 – Disco Unlimited (Best of the 70?s Disco) – 79th Street and Shore Road
  • 7/28 – City Sounds (Disco, Classic Rock and more) – Marine Park (Fillmore Avenue)
  • 8/10 – Brooklyn Keys (Oldies & Disco) – Dyker Park (86th Street & 14th Avenue)
  • 8/11 – Generation Gap (Dance Music) – Marine Park (Fillmore Avenue)
  • 8/17 – Frankie Marra & His Band (#1 Classic Rock Party Band) – 79th Street and Shore Road
  • 8/18 – Carl Thomas (Best of Darin, Sinatra and Martin) – Marine Park (Fillmore Avenue)

Lost Dog: Harley

LOST DOG!! WHITE RAT TERRIER "HARLEY"

LOST DOG!! WHITE RAT TERRIER “HARLEY”. HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE THURSDAY. (3/18) IF YOU HAVE SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING PLEASE LET ME KNOW. FOR ALL YOU ANIMAL LOVERS PLEASE COPY AND PASTE TO YOUR STATUS. OWNER IS HEARTBROKEN, KIDS ARE CRYING! REWARD
A few kind people did try to coral him @3:25 in Marine Park. But he was scared and kept running

Harley was last seen in front of Michaels Bakery (Avenue R) And two kids on bike roped him and were seen walking towards Gerritsen Avenue on Friday 3/19. He has been missing since Thursday 3/18 @(3:17 pm).. 8′

2 boys (on bikes) were seen roping his neck and walking towards Gerritsen Ave on 3/19 Fri morn. I only pray they see the flyers!(

Marty Golden: Easter Egg Hunt

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Children and families gathered in Marine Park Saturday, March 27, for an afternoon of rides, hot dogs, cotton candy and egg hunting.

At least colored 2,000 Easter eggs nestled in the grass drew a crowd of about 1,500 youths and parents for the community’s yearly Easter Egg Hunt at Marine Park.
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The Easter egg’s contained “tickets for prizes” which were “hidden” by Fort Hamilton High School Army JROTC Volunteers. Groups of about 500 people were let into an empty Marine Park and all at once made a dash for eggs. Since there was a 5 egg limit, kids would quickly grab 5 eggs then get in line for their prize which ranged from small toys to full bags of candy.
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Marine Park Easter Egg Hunt

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State Senator Marty Golden is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday at Marine Park.

Date: Saturday, March 27th, 2010, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location:
Marine Park
Fillmore Avenue and Marine Parkway

Marine Park Devestated

Marine Park Storm
[Marine Park Devastation by Daniel McGowan]

Other than the Damage that Hit Gerritsen Beach, and other than Stewart Street which had 4 trees down when I was there, then a few more in the morning, the actual Marine Park was DEVASTATED by the storm.

There are somewhere around 50 trees down in and around Marine Park

Marine Park Storm

Marine Park Storm

If a Tree Grows on a Path Do We Walk Around It??

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This tree on Burnett street seems determined to block anyone who wants to use the path.

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What Should Happen to a Motor Vehicle on Parkland

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Via MarineParker.net

Apparently, a pair of quads thought it was a good idea to tear up the center of Marine Park after the snow storm. NYPD aviation buzzed them literally on top of them. They were forced off their bikes and walked their bikes of the park to a patrol.

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McGuinness Irish Gift Shop Closing after 23 years

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McGuinness Irish Gift Shop, a family operated business at 3609 Avenue S Brooklyn, NY., is planning to close its doors after 23 years.

Currently, There is no set date for when they plan to close their doors. However this will be their last holiday season. They are holding a 30% off sale in the meantime.

“We have no regrets, the community has been great” said John McGuninness. “I never knew how great of a location this was.”

When we asked John about the reasons for the closing. He explained that it’s mostly the economy, the parking situation and that it’s now just the time to go.

The parking is an interesting monster in that area. There is now a zero tolerance policy for double parking in that area of Avenue S. Violators are receiving fines in the range of $150. Although the parking enforcement is a good thing, McGuninness felt the hit, hard. John explained that people used to look for a spot for 25 minutes then would understandably “move on”, and this would happen more often than not.

McGuninness’ and their customers are one big family. Their customers would usually buy items a few times a year. They have a large base of customers in the Gerritsen Beach, Rockaway, and Marine Park area. Personally when I walked in they knew me and my whole family just by sight. That’s the kind of store McGuinness is.

Someone ven recently drove in from Pennsylvania, after hearing of the closing, to pick up a few items and to say thank you and goodbye.

The family still plans to be very much involved in the community. The family still lives in and around the community.

We will be writing more about McGuinness as the time draws near.

Christmas Arrives by the Truckload to Area

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With Thanksgiving over….It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Christmas trees have been arriving in and all around our area by the truckloads recently.

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The two spots that Gerritsen Beach and Marine Park residents can pick up tress are:

Marine Park Avenue U parking lot, Which is selling trees for around $25-$225

Amity Baseball Corner at Knapp & Avenue V which are selling for about the same.

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New Intersection Destroys Communities. DEADLOCK Throughout Marine Park, and Gerritsen Beach

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We’ve been covering the Avenue U and Gerritsen Avenue Intersection for while now. Highlighting the changes as they happen. In turn many of our commenters have been discussing major concerns over safety and the overall flow (or lack thereof) of traffic. For example Steve G. said “at the corner of Gerritsen and Ave. U it will, I mean already is, a nightmare. The pedestrian island, the one lane lines, the no left turns, along with Key Food, and rush hour traffic that bails from the Belt Pkwy up Knapp Street have already caused major delays, with no end in sight.

Friday, November 20th GerritsenBeach.net spent about 3 hours between 2-5 pm at that intersection. Steve G is right…it’s a nightmare and GerritsenBeach.net belives that this will cause accidents and possibly worse injury’s. Here is the photo gallery.

The intersection and Gerritsen Avenue for those that don’t know now features a concrete “green streets like” traffic island at Gerritsen and U, and the length of Gerritsen Avenue is one lane. Gerritsen Avenue has left turn bays for the other Avenues such as R, T, etc. The Gerritsen and U intersection now has a badly needed left turn bay driving on Gerritsen South (driving into Gerritsen Beach) and Avenue U East (currently not installed). More importantly no left turns from Gerritsen North onto Avenue U West (toward Nostrand Avenue).

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The intersection was a mad house and to be fair this may be due to the new traffic pattern. It may be also due to impatient drivers. However all drivers are impatient, that just how life is, there is no changing that, you cant just take a intersection and Avenue that flows easily cut it down to one lane, and expect society to change its behavior.

Joseph Palmieri the appointed Brooklyn Borough Commissioner of DOT shoved this 10 year old plan onto multiple communities and cared less when the community said they didn’t want the plan. Now he left the job incomplete leaving drivers and pedestrians to the mercy of traffic.

More to the point…this is what is going on.

Making a left onto from Gerritsen South onto Avenue U East is impossible. Since the DOT left the job incomplete, for at least a week now, there is NO left turn signal/arrow yet. The new left turn bay on Gerritsen South can line up about 15 cars. Now since Gerritsen North traffic is now a single continuous lane of traffic when green, the only opportunity cars that can make a left is while red. Only one or two cars can currently make a left. Thats not going to stop some drivers who take it upon themselves jumping from the back of the line driving on the wrong side head-on into traffic to make their left onto Avenue U East.

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The new left turn bay completely blocks Engine 321. Needless to say appointed Joseph Palmieri forgot about the firehouse. Engine 321 is aggravated, angry, pissed, mad and they were more than happy to explain to me their frustrations since the new left turn bay and island were installed. They explained that the engine cannot make a left or right out of the firehouse at all! They are at the completely at the mercy of the traffic. That line of 15 cars lined up to make a left block their left and right access. Also the island blocks their quick access to drive around traffic to get onto Gerritsen to head to Knapp street or to continue down Gerritsen. They explained that even that morning that had to drive down Knapp street for an accident and it took them “a long time” to even get to Knapp Street. This to GerritsenBeach.net is a deal breaker and grounds to rip up the island immediately.

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The Knapp Street onto Gerritsen Merge is horrendous. It used to me a two lane to two lane merge. Now it’s obviously a two to one merge. What’s happening for drivers, is that they are forced to merge into each other, not in a nice merge either its a very dangerous low speed merge. However, since traffic at the Avenue U and Gerritsen intersection and the new single lanes traffic is now backed up just from that past Knapp St almost to the behind Knapp Street Pizza. Once you add the Knapp street traffic, it’s IMMEDIATE deadlock, blocking Gerritsen and Knapp completely, Engine 321 also explained this. Since also drivers are impatient that two lane merge with deadlock now becomes a 5 and 6 lane free-for-all as drivers try and get past the merge onto Gerritsen. This deadlock and traffic is now causing Knapp to get backed up past V backing up to PS 194. Which is bizarre.

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Commercial Traffic! Gerritsen Avenue is not a commercial road. Commercial traffic is allowed on Avenue U East and West and onto Gerritsen for local deliveries. Now the commercial traffic cannot take the same way out they are forced out of Gerritsen onto W, T, S, R Avenues to get back to a road they are allowed to drive on.

Keyfood! Keyfood employees and customers are also angry. People driving on Gerritsen South are technically not allowed to make lefts across Gerritsen North into the always filled lot. That’s not stopping anyone. Gerritsen North is filled with cars and these cars are inching their way across the median, across traffic, causing more deadlock. What else are they supposed to do? There is no easy way to get into Keyfood. They would have to go to Knapp, left on V, then deal with the Gerritsen North deadlock to get 100-200 feet.

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More deadlock on T, S, R Avenues getting onto Gerritsen South. That single lane is also causing deadlock and traffic backups on avenue T, S and R. R seems to be getting hit the hardest due to its short length, bus traffic and close proximity to Nostrand.

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Pedestrian and community safety is now compromised. Cars on Gerritsen North are now blocking, to inch up as close as they can to jump the lights, the cross walks forcing pedestrians literally into the middle of Avenue U. The deadlock, blocking the box style, at Knapp, V, U, T, and S have pedestrians crossing, bobbing and weaving through cars to get across the street.

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Drivers are still making lefts, including light and heavy commercial traffic, city buses, and access-a-rides. We would also like to add that we saw hundreds of empty access-a-rides, who cannot drive.

It seems fitting that this came after elections.

DOT, Bloomberg, Lew Fidler, Marty Golden, Alan Maisel, God help us.

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Marine Park Halloween Walk 2009

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This years Halloween walk was a mixed bag of fun and some disappointment. Disappointing only because the threat of rain forced the walk inside the nature center, and not on a trail like it was in previous years.

Fortunately enough…all of the volunteers stepped up and played the hand they were dealt offering the community a great event.

Once inside the nature center Marine Park Civic was offering free group pictures that they would print for you on the spot.

Local politicians State Senator Marty Golden and Councilman Lew Fidler were handing out apples and candy. After getting candy and apples for the kids, family’s walked into the nature center yard where characters were, then out the path to the street with more characters along the way.

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Upcoming Event: Marine Park Halloween Walk

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The Marine Park Halloween Walk presented by the Marine Park Community Association will be Saturday October 17th 2009.

What a better way to spend your Saturday afternoon as a family then by scaring them to tears.

If you have never checked out a photo gallery before please, check out the 2008 Marine Park Halloween Walk.

Saturday, October 17, 2009
1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

There will be no rain date.

Location:
Marine Park, Brooklyn
East 36 Street entrance of Salt Marsh Nature Center Trail

Cost: Free

Contact Number
(718) 421-2021

if you even more brave, click more or look below and see some of the pictures.

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Pics: Cricket Player Struck by Lighting in Marine Park

Marine Park Brooklyn Lighting Strike
[Photos: by Paul]

A cricket player was struck by lightning this afternoon in Marine Park!

Patrick Gibson, 41, was barely breathing, legs badly burned and his clothes were totally destroyed when he was hit by lighting collecting cricket off the field.

No word yet if this man survived. Local EMT’s say the man was DOA.

Check out this November 2008 article of the NYTimes highlighting the cricket players – Isolation Is Pretty Splendid

Coverage:
NY Daily News

Marine park Lighting Strike

Lew Fidler Hosts Crime Prevention and Safety Session

Councilman Lew Fidler is pleased to announce that he will be hosting a Crime Prevention and Safety Tips Information Session in conjunction with the NYPD.

Following the presentation by representatives from NYPD Patrol Borough Brooklyn South and the 61st and 63rd Precincts, audience questions will be answered.
As there has been heightened awareness and concern following reports of possible attempted child abductions in the area, NYPD will also be prepared to speak on this subject.

Please come out and join us for this important safety meeting, and feel free to bring to your friends and neighbors.

Date: Wed, June 24, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Hebrew Language School /IS 278/Marine Park Jr High, 1925 Stuart St, between Fillmore Ave and Ave S

If you have any questions, please feel free to call Councilman Fidler’s office at 718-241-9330.