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Apologies: One Big Golden Ad
You may be asking yourself “whats with the excessive golden posts?” “what is this Our News?”. Apologies for posting five Marty Golden events in a row. It was the only way to give each woman credit they deserve, as well as promote the Easter Egg Hunt.
Be Our Facebook Friend
GerritsenBeach.net is now in an undeclared war with Sheepshead Bites via facebook to hit 1,000 friend first.
Here is the deal:
When GerritsenBeach.net wins and hits a thousand we will give a prize to a random follower of value. Sheepshead Bites isn’t giving out prizes!
Not sure what it will be yet but I am open for suggestions.
Welcome to the “New Hotness”
Nothing is set in stone but this is the direction the layout is headed. What do you all think?
Thank You from GerritsenBeach.net
Hello Readers,
Last night I was able to attend the Hayes Family fundraiser to deliver  all donations received through the donation link we put up shortly after the fire.  I am very proud of everyone who donated either directly through the website or got the information on how to donate through the website.
With your help we raised $2,087.65
There were a total of 41 donations from all different areas of the world including  Canada, California, Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, as well as New York. Donations ranged from as little as $5 to $250.
Thank you all for your generosity!  Gerritsen Beach Rules!
The Village Voice calls GerritsenBeach.net one of “Gotham’s Best”
The Village Voice gave a great write up about “18 obsessive, cantankerous, and unstoppable Gotham blogs worth going ape over”. We at GerritsenBeach.net are humbled by the headline and honored to be included with other great blogs.
[The Neighborhood Reporter]
Gerritsen Beach
Proprietor: Daniel Cavanagh
GerritsenBeach.netDaniel Cavanagh is Gerritsen Beach–born-and-bred, and he knows his deep-Brooklyn neighborhood is a mystery to most of us. Before he started blogging about it at GerritsenBeach.net in 2006, he says, “You’d only know it from its hate crimes, like maybe someone got killed somewhere else, and they’d say they’re from Gerritsen Beach.” He wanted to put out a more well-rounded picture, and show that Gerritsen Beach—and the surrounding south Brooklyn area, in general—is “a nice place with stupid problems, like any other part of the city.”
This he does: If there’s a Lundy’s being refurbished in Sheepshead Bay, or a big tree falls on Noel Avenue, he’s on it. Cavanagh also goes to precinct and community board meetings, and reports on and sometimes posts videos of them, which is a big deal around his way. “Community board meetings suck,” he says. “They’re three or four hours long. People come up to me and say, ‘I can’t go to these meetings—viewing your website and getting the breakdown is easier for me.’ ”
Cavanagh breaks stories: His 2008 coverage of black kids getting hassled on Manhattan Beach during a senior “cut day” at local high schools was followed days later by a story in the Post. He got no credit, though. “It’s their policy,” he shrugs. “I don’t complain a lot. I’m more interested in getting stories that the other papers don’t get.” And sometimes, Cavanagh is the story, as when Nobody Beats the Wiz founder Stephen Jemal came after him for publicizing problems with Jemal’s land development business—and an associate of Jemal’s hacked Cavanagh’s site. The Daily News picked that one up and interviewed Cavanagh.
Cavanagh says he’s “more a photo guy” and is thinking of taking writing courses to hone his journalism skills. We think he’s pretty well honed already. —EDROSO
You People Can’t Have Anything Nice. Comments Dropped.
After a week of experimenting with “Disqus” a new comment system… I wish I could say that it worked beautifully. Well, design and technically it did, everything was working and looking the way it was supposed to.
What didn’t work out was the level of effort by some to find out the real identities of current and past commenters. Which is unacceptable, but I am not surprised. The people who were attempting to find out the real identities of commenters are people who with the right information might retaliate.
Disqus allowed the ability to claim your old comments if you ever wanted to register. The feature effectivly linked all comments made either anonymously or using a real name. Every comment made under multiple names were listed and linked.
I have been saying it all along, anonymous comments are essential to this community website. However, the commenters must be protected from retribution of neighbors.
Sad.
Site News: New Comments
If you haven’t noticed already there is a new comment format.
Technically speaking I had two comment plugins that you all enjoyed. 1) The like/dislike button 2) threaded commenting. Then after an upgrade, everything broke and nothing was working.
I was forced to do something fast, either go with the default comments which are not good at all or use something new and shiny. Obviously I went to new and shiny.
As of right now I am trying out Disqus. Which allows a few important things which are important. 1) Anoymous comments 2) Registered comments. 3)like / dislike 4) Threading
Essentially its the same except for the design. Bear with us.
Please let me know what you think. If for whatever reason the comments are not working please shoot me an email at info@gerritsenbeach.net
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Apologies: Denied White Island Coverage
GerritsenBeach.net is issuing an apology to our readers who were expecting to get an update on what is currently going on and going to be happening with White Island.
Less than 24 hours after our post “White Island Meeting Thursday at Cort Club” I received a call by our Assemblyman Alan Maisel and was told that I have been dis-invited to this meeting between DEC, Maisel and GBCares.
Apparently Alan has gone back on the “everyone is welcome” premise of this meeting.
I was told that if I show up there will be no meeting. People will walk out.
I apologize to anyone who get local news from GerritsenBeach.net I will be getting this information anyway through alternate, and more direct means.
Open Thread
Here is something that is worth a shot trying… an Open Thread (open conversation).
Comment below about anything you want to bring up, to discuss, or want GerritsenBeach.net to cover.
Loved by some….
Who are these “others” and how do we convince them to love GerritsenBeach.net
Meet Your New Contributor
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as a new contributor to GerritsenBeach.net. My name is Lauren, I’m 20 years old and I’ve lived in Gerritsen Beach my whole life. In addition to contributing here, I also volunteer for the Gerritsen Beach Fire Department, intern at ING Investment Management, and study with the NY Institute of Photography.
I hope to contribute often, with both photos and stories. If anybody would like to contact me, I can be reached at lauren@gerritsenbeach.net or stick with the usual info@gerritsenbeach.net
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New Blog: MarineParker.net
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Marine Park residents will finally have a place to go for local news and happenings. I’ve launched MarineParker.net to inform the Marine Park about Community meetings, development issues, local politics, interesting people, happenings and cool new places.
It will be run mainly by Marine Park residents with myself as a secondary writer / editor. Hopefully it will become successful as GerritsenBeach.net but I invite everyone to check it out, email tips, spread the word and participate as you would here.
MarineParker.net
