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The American Italian Caner Foundation and State Senator Martin Golden are going to be offering free Mammograms at the senators Marine Park office.

Its by appointment only, but thats a phone call away. Call to schedule your appointment 800-564-6868

• September 29, 2008 - Marine Park Office - 3610 Quentin Road (Quentin& East 36th)

Senator Golden concert series is in its final month. Be sure to make it to one of the free concerts.

Last night was Marty Golden’s public safety “town hall” style meeting. At this meeting, people were given the chance to discuss public safety issues and had their issues addressed directly by the people in charge; the 61st captain and the 63rd inspector. It wasn’t a large crowd. Around 75 people had signed in for the town hall meeting and judging by the seating arrangement there was a larger crowd expected.

Some interesting concerns were raised at the meeting, but nothing was really new. The issues raised included motorcycles, ATV’s, and quads driving on city streets as well as cars parking at the point, and Jet Ski/Wave Runner launching at the point. Also some Marine Park residents were at the meeting to bring up Stewart Street which is a border street of the 61st and 63rd precincts. They were there to raise concerns of out of control “kids” and the lack of police response.

All of the issues brought up were noted by the 61st and 63rd precincts and their respective community affairs officers. Some sort of action will be taken to address the concerns that were raised. For example, the 61st is stepping up patrols on Knapp Street in response to a motorcycle accident that occurred. They will be shifting patrols to include Gerritsen Beach with the main focus as Knapp Street.

In addition, the 61st would like people to anonymously report names and home addresses that have illegal ATV, Quads etc so they can have the vehicles confiscated if they see them on the street.

There were also representatives from the parks department explaining the Mau-Mau/White Island project, but I’m going to post that separately either today or tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Here are some questions for all reading this: Was anyone planning on attending? If you didn’t make it to the town hall why couldn’t you attend? And for the people who didn’t think of attending, do you not care?

If you can bear it the video is below: Just beware it is insanely long, boring and the audio at times is horrible. Funny thing is you will feel like you were there!

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Hosted by State senator Marty Golden, there will be a public safety meeting held TODAY at the Cort Club @7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Hosted by State senator Marty Golden, there will be a public safety meeting held at the Cort Club on June 26th @7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

[Marine Park Family Day/Flickr]

Via SenatorGolden.com

Here is the new 2008 summer concert schedule to be held in the parks around our area. The concert series is presented by the Bay Ridge & Bensonhurst Beautification & Preservation Alliance,the Community Energy Response Team CERT1NYC and New York State Senator Marty Golden.

“Bring a blanket, a chair, your family and friends”
Concerts are FREE and open to the public.. All concerts begin at 7pm. Family days are 5pm to 8pm.
In case of poor weather, cancellations will be posted on the Concert Hotline by 5pm. Hotline # 718 236-7547

In bold are the Marine Park events.

Produced by MBS Music

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• Four Tires Stolen Again!
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On Friday April 4th 2008 from 12pm to 1pm at the Gerritsen Beach branch library Marty Golden is hosting a Constituent Outreach where you can “Let the senator know how you feel about issues facing the State and our neighborhood”.

[Flickr/Zombies on Gerritsen Avenue]

Unless the Department of Transportation is some sort of evil corporation and has a zombie formula that brings projects back to life, Green Streets is dead…again.

What killed the project this second time? It wasn’t any gunshots to the zombie head, it was a statement by John Quaglione the Press Secretary for Senator Marty Golden in response to “Are we Being Lied To?”

I wish to respond to the recent postings on this website, following a press story that has caused speculation among Gerritsen Beach residents, that the Greenstreets Project has not been officially been removed from consideration. I wish to inform you that this speculation is unwarranted and not true.

As the District Manager and Press Secretary for Senator Marty Golden, I wish to reiterate that from the very beginning of this project, Senator Golden and the other area elected officials have maintained that the community was to decide if this project was to happen. As a result of the meeting, Senator Golden and other elected officials, along with the Department of Transportation, have officially agreed to no longer consider this plan for Gerritsen Avenue.

I thought it was necessary to respond so that this message board can receive an official position from Senator Golden’s office and that the community can move ahead. Please be assured that Senator Golden is respectful of the wishes of the residents of Gerritsen Beach.

Thank you. If anyone has questions regarding this project, or any other matter requiring assistance, please contact Senator Golden’s office at 3610 Quentin Road or by calling at (718) 627-3659.

What do you think of all of this?

Also check out some press coverage of the Green Streets meeting by the Brooklyn Eagle.

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Safety Considerations Derail ‘Green’ Plan for Gerritsen Beach’s Main Road

• How to survive a zombie attack

Just when we thought the Green Streets project was dead, turns out, it may never have actually died.

In the February 21st issue of the Bay News, a reporter from the newspaper asked the DOT about the project and the aftermath of the meeting. A DOT spokesperson said that “the project was still being discussed internally between local elected officials and the city” and that “everyone is going to take a second look at it.” Additionally, they stated that the meeting “alone did not kill it.”

Are we being lied to? Remember the rumors that the project was going to be forced on us? Now it might seem that way. Why even call a meeting with the community if DOT officials are going to talk about the issue amongst themselves, after the fact. It appears that, Marty Golden’s decision to “pull the plug” at the Green Streets meeting may not have been final.

Toward the end of the article Joe Maniscalco, who wrote the Bay News article, reported that the project being “dead may be premature”. Who reported that it was dead? I wonder? Maybe it was my devil of a post that was titled Green Streets Dead.

It also seems like he needed a filler for his article so he used my “after 30 minutes Marty killed green streets for the DOT” talking point. I’m all for sharing information when its sourced. I can safely say that he did not look at his watch when Marty Golden called the meeting. On the contrary, he looked at my post and/or my video and took my talking point.

I cite and source everything I get and use on this site. When I get no mention or people use my images without proper citation it annoys me. After all, this entire site is licensed under a “Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works”. Meaning that, anyone can use my content, non commercially, as long as they source me.

Oh and Joe nice zinger: “the senator had a devil of a time”. Really? Did He? Ugh.