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If you have not already noticed DOT has laid down the strips they use for a traffic study approaching the Channel Avenue intersection.
This study was requested by Senator Goldens office along with the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association for a Traffic Signal at Channel Avenue.
For the 2010-2011 School Year
Until March 12th 2010
Monday – Friday
8:30am – 1:00pm
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Required Documents
Drivers License, telephone or cable are NOT acceptable proofs of address.
[The Plumb Beach Rest Stop is covered in used condoms]
Last August, as in last year, the National Park Service arrested & summonsed about 80 men for sex related crimes(either propositioning, in the act, etc.).
The NPS conducted undercover operations to entrap proposition people. Apparently it worked well.
In the process they also snagged a few fishermen, whom were there after hours, in the month long sweep whom are now in the process of defending themselves in court. There were many others who just paid a fine and/or accepted a deal.
Just to put this whole thing in perspective. The arrests may have something to do with the threat that the National Parks Service would lose its funding in our area. So to justify their existence they arrested more people in on month than they did all of the previous year.
Hopefully everyone there will all sing kumbaya when the Michael Sandy Memorial is erected.
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[Apparently they didn't read the sign.]
Gerritsen Beach has been hit with snow again and to make matters worse (for kids) New York City public schools will be open tomorrow
After preemptively closing schools before the last snow—awarding students their third snow day in the past six years—Bloomberg announced this afternoon that city schools will remain open on Friday.
In a statement to 1010WINS that leaves just enough doubt for students to feel disappointed right now, and again tomorrow morning, he said: “My hope is that the snow will stay to the north and west of us and we’ll just have rain, our kids need another school day … We will cancel school only if it really would be dangerous to get the kids into school and get them home.”
The GBCMB is thrilled to announce that they have been noticed by the judging committee of the NYC St. Patrick’s Parade. Their step off time is 12:20 as opposed to 2:30, the difference being a 4pm step off vs. at 1-1:30 step off. Keep a look out for the Band representing the fine neighborhood of Gerritsen Beach.
Hip, hip, hooray for all the Volunteers of the Community Marching Band!
In protest of the DOE planning on closing our area schools the United Federation of Teachers’ (UFT)has filed a lawsuit to stop the closure of 19 city public schools including Sheepshead Bay HS, Dewey, FDR, and Grady.
Read more at Courier Life
Seriously, for those of Gerritsen Beach still at work or who don’t have children to pick up your lucky. We’ve covered the arrival/dissmall mess before here and here and honestly we have been letting everyone off easy.
In the past posts, it was the 61st precinct bowing to pressure to enforce the double parking. Recently every now and then a traffic agent, who looks lost, comes in and writes tickets. They mostly come in before dismissal and write tickets on Gerritsen Avenue for people parked in bus stops and if they see an expired registration/inspection. I have no problem with that, that is their job. However, they still have to obey all traffic laws just like anyone else, they can’t make U-turns, double park, etc.
As I was driving out yesterday I had the pleasure privilege of driving behind a traffic agent through dismissal. The parents cars were literality double parked on both sides of Gerritsen Avenue from Channel to Brenmans, it was a particularity bad day, maybe it was the snow coupled with a friday – who knows. The above agent would stop and go, not for the safety of children, but just to be scary. This agent was TRIPLE PARKING completely blocking north and south traffic. I guess they are allergic to getting out of their cars and walking to warn or issue tickets.
The parents cars were bad, this do-nothing agent, made matters worse. Forcing people into a panic driving through RED FLASHING stop lights on school buses and pulling out without looking.
GerritsenBeach.net will be getting back out there to highlight the problem again and maybe offer a solution. What ever happened to the parking lot? (ZING)
Maybe taking cue from the HEATED and long debates going on here at GerritsenBeach.net, Lew Fidler our city councilman is echoing calls for hearings to investigate alligations of misconduct, even asking for a audit by the comptroller’s office.
“People can misinterpret or misuse statistics all the time,†City Councilmember Lew Fidler told Courier Life. “It just strikes me that the crime statistics we hear are too good to be true.â€
The blizzard dumped a good amount of snow on Gerritsen Beach today, it obviously fell short of the large predictions. There is a massive amount of snow outside.
Be Careful. I already hear quads .
I rode the B31 early this morning and no one was on it.
Is your bedroom in the cellar?
Do you live in the attic?
Do you get electricity with an extension cord?
Do you lock your room with a padlock?
If you answered yes you may be living in an illegal apartment / room. Which is the exact opposite of safe and is what is killing people in fires.
The Department of Buildings has launched a citywide campaign to educate New Yorkers about the dangers of illegally converted living spaces.
As part of the new initiative, inspectors, plan examiners and administrative staff have teamed up with firefighters and members of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs to distribute more than 60,000 flyers at major transportation hubs and houses of worship throughout the five boroughs.
Regardless of where you live, you should:
llegally altered buildings and apartments violate the City’s construction codes and can pose serious risks to tenants, neighbors and first responders in the event of a fire or other emergency. In 2008, the Department of Buildings issued more than 1,000 vacate orders for unsafe conditions related to illegal occupancies.
By law, property owners are required to maintain their buildings in compliance with the City’s building and construction codes. If they fail to do so, violations, monetary penalties and/or criminal charges could result.
To report an illegal conversion or any other unsafe conditions, please call 311.
Sheepshead Bay High School, our High School, is going to close at the end of the year.
The DOE is citing graduation rates for special education and low-income students. More than likely the DOE is going to replace Sheepshead with smaller and/or charter schools.
3 other Brooklyn schools are going to close as well:
The 61st Precinct recently showed record drops in crime across the board in the year end CompStat numbers. CompStat is the name given to the Police Department’s accountability process. The precinct had the second largest crime drop in the city, the Central Park precinct came in 1st.
Here are some of the stats.
[What Lacon Ct. Should Look Like]
Since our most recent story about the Dead End Land Grabs All Over the Beach the team at GerritsenBeach.net has been studying and looking into property law. It turns out that there is something called Adverse Possession. Adverse possession is a concept in law which concerns title of real properties.
You may thinking to yourself that your abandoned neighbors property looks real nice and you want it for yourself. Maybe if you put a fence around it and maintain it for X number of years you will own it by law. That was the case where you could do a minimal amount of “this land is mine” work and hold it for 10 years and it would be actually yours, as long as the owner didn’t ask for it back.
However, there was a law on the books, that changed a few years ago, that said adverse possession of property can occur simply because someone mows someone’s lawn for 10 years or because a fence, or minimal, non-structural item is placed across the deeded property line.
Adverse possession now requires that the claimant must have a “claim of right†or “reasonable basis for the belief†that the property is theirs to take adverse possession. Basically, your neighbor can not take adverse possession of property regardless of how long he squats on it. He has to have proof that he has a right to the property in question (i.e. a dispute over property lines). As well as: you cant be sneaky about it (The possession must be open for all to see.)
In our case in Gerritsen Beach, if you’re the adverse possessor and you didn’t already claim your stolen land from the actual owner to amend your deed. You missed your chance. On our dead ends and Courts, New York City is the actual owner, and I’m sure they don’t have smart lawyers which would be willing to allow you to keep “your” land.
[Lacon Ct Dead End Take Over]
There is a problem in some areas of Gerritsen Beach, as well as Manhattan Beach, Rockaway, and any neighborhood with waterfront access. Property owners have been claiming and fighting over water front land, particular at dead end blocks. Between easements and city maps takeovers become a matter of the courts.
This is something that has been going on since the year of the flood(a long time), and may not ever be rectified or addressed. However, wouldn’t it be nice to have some sort of water view/access within a waterfront community.
What is being noticed all over the the beach (both new and old) is that people are either fencing off dead ends, or filling in bulkhead areas to level them out.
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Old-Old Section you ask? I’m talking about Kay Court, Landis Court, Merit Court, off of Just Court. It’s the only section of the old section which is not connected to any sort of Avenue. Which is just weird.
In this part of the old section, Garbage pickup is completely dependent on the cars that are illegally parked on the corners which blocks sanitation (therefore fire) trucks access to the blocks.
Bartlett Place is a one way all the way down to the water, with the ability to make a left (toward cryus) on Abbey, Canton, Eaton, Noel, Hyman, and Just Courts. There are no parking signs on those respective blocks allowing access for larger vehicles room to turn.
The problem for residents of Kay, Landis, Merit and Just Court residents is that if someone removed those no parking signs. Surprising? When someone is parked there there is no Garbage pickup. Which can sometimes last for weeks.
There are numerous no parking signs on Bartlett missing. If you wanted to make a left onto Bartlett from Beacon, Dare, Frank, Gain, and Ivan Courts. Signs below Frank are missing making lefts ONTO Bartlett difficult if not impossible.
