GerritsenBeach.net

News from SBPBCivic.org

The Brigham Street Park Project is proud to announce that Assemblyman Alan Maisel (D- Brooklyn) has generously contributed $50,000.00 in capital project funds towards building a new park at Brigham Street. This contribution is the first monetary contribution to the Project, which will be finalizing its design concept by the beginning of September.

“When this Project was looking for a direction, Assemblyman Maisel was the only elected official that publicly supported us,” said Gene Berardelli, the community coordinator of the Project. “I’m proud to be represented by him, and even prouder to see that he has stepped up to the forefront of the Project once again.”

“We are delighted to work with Assemblyman Maisel on Brigham Park and look forward to a successful project that will have a lasting impact as a waterfront amenity for residents of Sheepshead Bay and all New Yorkers.”, said Christian DiPalermo, Executive Director of New Yorkers For Parks.

The Project will use this money for the pre-construction / soft construction costs, including approximately $40,000 for design development and construction documents, and approximately $10,000 for final design development and schematic designs.

“I am very pleased to be part of this great effort to bring a badly needed park to the residents of Plumb Beach.”,, said Assemblyman Alan Maisel.

The final community meeting for the Brigham Street Park Project’s design phase will be on Wednesday, August 13th at 7:00 PM at The Golden Gate Inn where another round of designs for the Brigham Street Park will be exhibited for comment.

Blog Rumors Are Not True? Really?

Just to let everyone know, there are TWO sites in our part of Brooklyn where people can go and get news, GerritsenBeach.net and Sheepshead Bay Civics site and forum at SBPCivic.org.

If you have been following, Councilman Mike Nelson’s former deputy chief of staff Robert Varley recently went public with that Nelson told him to post things on the two area sites.

It was recently picked up by the Brooklyn View. Who ran the story with the title “blog rumors are not true”. What blog are they talking about? SBPBCivic.org in their own article is called a forum, oh that’s right, this is the only “blog” they can be talking about, but let’s not credit this site properly. Let’s continue to STEAL images off the web and now stories. Then lets overuse the word “blog” until it sounds like you don’t know what your talking about. You know what fine, I burnt that bridge by calling you out for stealing images.

The article continues to say that Mike Nelson doesn’t read local blogs(why plural?), WHICH COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. Why did he have his people get in touch with me to stop the comments on the original Manhattan Beach post that was bashing him? But I forgot he doesn’t read them because they have zero accountability. Apparently the post had enough credibility for him to want it to stop.

The article continued to say that they tried to contact Varley by email and he did not respond. He didn’t respond? He seemed like a responsive guy when I LOOKED HIM UP AND SPOKE WITH HIM. Nice reporting Brooklyn View. Boy did I learn a lot speaking with him. All of which will come later.

The Brooklyn View then got a MAJOR fact wrong. The user “City Insider” never attacked Nelson or his family. In fact nowhere on the SBPBCivic.org site does anyone ever attack Nelson. There were anonymous comments on GerritsenBeach.net directed at nelson and his wife, but that’s ok lets not credit anyone or get the facts straight.

Hey, Brooklyn View, can I talk to you over here for a second? If you could not get in touch with Robert Varley why even post RUMORS from blogs “with zero accountability”?

Mike Nelson, you apparently you still can’t count, you said “…I’m not surprised they hide in blogs seen by 30 of their friends”. That is so funny and clever! However, On my site alone I average 725 unique hits a day, some of which are from CITY HALL. That is alot more than your 30 guess. SBPBCivic.org forum is also very popular.

Ugh.

Every politician has his enemies; Councilman Mike Nelson apparently has a lot and keeps piling up more.

It recently was exposed on the SBPBCivic.org forums that Councilman Mike Nelson, had his former Deputy Chief of Staff Robert Varley post to various websites including this site under the guise of City Insider. Every post that was ever written by Robert Varley aka “City Insider” was seen and approved by Mike Nelson. The identity was always a secret, which was important, since City Insiders opinions should never be linked back to Mike Nelson.

Varley left his position as Deputy Chief, under good terms in February 2008, and the forum account has been un-used by Varley since. However since February a Norman Chesler, who was a close friend of Mike and his wife Shela Nelson, had began commenting on GerritsenBeach.net. He has been threating that he would reveal things that will be detrimental to the Nelsons and others. However, it should be known that Chelser is someone who who’s admitted making the $56,000 in payoffs to Clarance Norman, the former chairman of the Kings County Democratic Party. Clarance was convicted of three felony counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions during his 2000 and 2002 re-election campaigns for his seat in the New York State Assembly and is currently serving a jail sentence. Chesler although his credibility is close to nil due to his illegal dealings, he still could say some damaging things.

Other than Chesler people have been saying some nasty things about Mike and Sheila Nelson. According to Varley the Nelsons then took action, blaming him for the nasty comments, then outing him as City Insider on the Forum as another poster because according to Varley “maybe that would make those nasty comments go away”.

Varley who attempted for days to get in contact with Mike Nelson took his story public.

• “Councilman Michael Nelson how dare you” - SBPBCivic.org Forums
• All of City Insider Posts - SBPBCivic.org Forums (Warning: You have to register)

Members of the New York State Majority Conference including Senator Marty Golden (R-C, Brooklyn) today called on the State Assembly to immediately join the Senate in passing legislation (S.391), sponsored by Senator Cathy Young (R-I-C, Olean), to expand the definition of a drug to include glue sniffing or aerosol inhalation within the grounds for drug-impaired driving.

“This bill has failed to pass the Assembly since 2002,” said Senator Golden. “I’m urging the Assembly to close this loophole in the law allowing drivers which are obviously intoxicated to escape criminal punishment.”

Apparently Carl Kruger our NY State Senator wants to ban “the use of gadgets” while crossing the street, resulting in a fine of $100.

We checked his website and it hasent been updated since July 2005. While thats really funny its also relevant to the topic at hand. How can Carl Kruger who obviously doesn’t understand “gadgets” or keeping an updated web site want to ban the use of it while crossing a street? Doesn’t that it make make him seem like hes out of touch with technology?

Carl, Its ok that technology has surpassed your means to understand it. Get over it. Everyone does. However, that doesn’t give you the right to try and ban behavior.

Carl were sorry, We at GerritsenBeach.net feel really bad for calling you “out of touch ” so we will volunteer to fix your VCR clock that is still blinking 12:00. We will even take the time to introduce you to DVD’s. Heck, we will even show you this new thing called the internet and how the internet works.

Don’t you have better things to do? Go back to fighting dollar vans.

We are going to call our other state senator (Martin Golden)for his opinion.