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Cherry Hill Gourmet Market A food market and cafe is going to open in lundys soon, but since the store owners are altering the building’s landmark interior and exterior, the landmarks preservation commission has issued a stop work order.

State Senator Kruger, held a news conference outside Lundy’s on Monday afternoon,  saying the store owners were “desecrating” the old building by placing a tile sidewalk out front and removing the old Lundy’s signs, planters and other artifacts.

He said that the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission had issued a stop-work order on construction at the site. John Weiss, the commission’s deputy counsel, said the order was issued last week because no permits had been given for work on the facade or on the sidewalk.

Both Senator Kruger and Theresa Scavo, the chairwoman of Community Board 15, said that Lundy’s should have been rented to another restaurateur.

The owner of the new gourmet market, David Isaev, said he was stunned by all the attention. Furious better described his mood when he arrived at Lundy’s after Senator Kruger’s news conference. He led a high-speed tour in and around the dilapidated building to show the effort he was making to restore it. Craftsmen had taken down the iron letters of Lundy’s sign, and were cleaning them with an iron brush, and there were new floors. Alexander Rabinovich, an architect working with Mr. Isaev, tried to explain the resistance to the food store. “They don’t want change,” he said.

Recently, Lundy’s removed their outdoor signage which is wrong (as well as a violation) because its protected as a landmark building.

There was a complaint made to the Department of Buildings and they did inspect. The complaint said that exterior was being removed. DOB determined that the “BLDG EXTERIOR NOT BEING REMOVED/RECONSTRUCTED.” So they resolved the complaint with no violation.

Their determination is technically right. However the complaint was wrong. The complaint did not say that the signage was removed.

I guess you can score one for new Lundy’s owner on this one. Even though I would rather see the existing signs up. I still hope they didn’t throw out those old signs.

Back last year there was a letter to the editor in the now defunct Brooklyn View newspaper about how Roll n Roaster decided to keep the change from a gift certificate. The person was very upset as you can read here: Roll N Roaster keeps change from gift certificates

It looks as though their illegal policy still has not changed at all and they are berating customers who demand their change. GerritsenBeach.net received an email that explains an incident but its being withheld until they want it published.

Customers who buy these coins from RnR are told they are as good as cash, with no other disclosure.

The FTC has said “Consumers have a right to know when gift cards come with strings attached,”  “If fees or restrictions apply, gift card issuers must fully and clearly disclose them.”

I’m not sure why Roll N Roaster uses gift coins, most retailers use gift cards. They use them to disclose the terms in using them.

I’m sure if Roll N Roaster disclosed that no change will be given no one will buy them.

Via Sheepsheadbites.com

Three sets of signs, over the doors and windows, on the Ocean Avenue side of Lundy’s have been removed. Lets hope they didn’t throw them out.

Being a landmark building, nothing can be done without specific permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commision.

The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commision is in charge of overseeing landmark buildings as well as the work done to them, CB 15 Chair Theresa Scavo expects to hear back from officials soon about the work.

It looks as though Stephen Jemal did not hold up his end of a bargain with Sheepshead Bay Plumb Beach Civic.

If you don’t already know, back in June Stephen Jemal threatened to sue GerritsenBeach.net and SBPBCivic.org over a post that was made on SBPBCivic.org. It’s a long story, so read about it here.

At last night SBPPBCivic meeting where Jemal was a no show; all of the details came out about what led up to their demand letter, the negations and the agreement that was eventually reached with SBPBCivic.

As part of an agreement between SBPBCivic and Stephen Jemal, SBPBCivic would reword their original post as an act of good faith. In exchange Stephen Jemal was to come down to the local meeting and explain his neighborhood projects.

As for what happened to me: I never wanted to deal with them. My web server was attacked and brought down bringing down 120 other websites. I’m planning my next move, over the matter.

SBPBCivic is expected to make a statement (via SBPBCivic.org) and I am expecting that they will be looking very closely at Stephen Jemals projects.

The owners of the now closed Foursome diner are close to opening a new diner called Kouros, on Nostrand and Z, where the Chinese buffet used to be.

Good luck to them. Maybe they will let me know when it opens so I can take some pictures.

The property that the foursome was on, is going to be a Walgreens

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.

The Ocean Eagle ( A Boat in the Bay) is in some trouble with the State because they were caught keeping fish that are shorter than the state minimum lengths right now.

Check out this video that has a great interview with the captain of the Brooklyn V

We are Yesterday And Today, A Tribute to the Music of The Beatles, a top notch Beatles tribute band playing in the Brooklyn, Queens, NYC area for the past three years.

We will be performing a special show aboard the Amber Jack V Yacht out of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn on Sunday, September 14th.

This will be a four hour cruise with three sets of Beatles classics. Tickets are expected to go fast, so please reserve your tickets early. Group discounts are available and full refunds will be given if the weather causes this cruise to be canceled.

Full details are listed below. Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Thank You,
Robert Hannan
Yesterday And Today
Join us as we embark on a four hour cruise sailing from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn aboard the Amberjack V private yacht.

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Looks like this “small blog” made the paper.

BY JOTHAM SEDERSTROM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, July 24th 2008, 5:35 PM

Nobody beats the Wiz - not even a blogger.

The feisty founder of electronics behemoth The Wiz is threatening to sue a Brooklyn blogger who published jabs against the businessman on his small Web site.

Read more here