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DATE: August 17 2008

TIME: MEETUP AT 12Pm. KS up at 12:30

START LOCATION: Meetup at Floyd Bennett Field (by fishing spot)

END LOCATION: Tamaqua Bar and Marina (End of Channel Ave in Gerritsen Beach/ off Gerritsen Ave)

DONATION: $10 per rider/ $10 per passenger.

All donations go directly into a trust fund that has been set up for Anthony’s daughter.

DETAILS: The run will start at FBF. It will proceed over the Marine Park Bridge(pay toll). It will than proceed down Beach Channel Drive, to the Cross Bay Bridge(pay toll). From the bridge,to the Belt pkwy(west). Exit at Knapp st(exit 9). After the Belt the run will end at Tamaqua Bar.

There will be 50/50 raffles. Bar does have food and full stocked bar(not included in donation).There is a parking lot. Indoor and outdoor seating area, pool table, etc…

Please RSVP at Reallife4me@msn.com or Roadreapers@msn.com . All vest are welcome and encouraged. Any clubs that plan on riding please email your name or logo so I can try to get them on the t-shirts.

To cap of the 4th of July weekend, the Tamaqua hosted the Charlie Walsh Memorial Birthday Party. Where the FDNY Harbor unit put on a show, had a free BBQ, tons of raffle prizes and drink specials.

• Here is the photo gallery

Well here are some things that were discussed at the Property Owners meeting:

• Budgets cut over at PS 277, the property owners is going to be donating $500
• There was alot of discussion about the Knapp Street development and the lack of construction fence. The deal with the fence is: when they start construction they have to put it up, they are being very closely watched.
• There was also alot of discussion about the house next to Mike and Gerard’s with their 3rd floor, that we featured on “Which on of these things doesn’t Belong“. According to the DOB, it hasn’t been signed off on yet.
• The 61st precinct community affairs Sargent gave his report about crime in the area, some speeders, some drugs, but what is interesting is that the Bantry Bar was issued 2 SLA (State Liquor Authority) summonses (what for I don’t know) Its neighbor the Beach Bar was inspected and it is a “legitimate establishment” and has no issues.

It wasn’t brought up at the meeting but after some quick research, this might be why they were summonsed. The Bantry Bar is the only bar according to the SLA website with an inactive license.

• The Bantry Bar does not appear to have a valid liquor license it is inactive and expired
  • (New York State Liquor Authority / Bantry Bar).
• The Beach Bar which has a valid and active license.
  • (New York State Liquor Authority / Beach Bar)
• Jims Marine Inn has a valid and active license
  • (New York State Liquor Authority / Jims Marine Inn)
• Tamaqua has a valid and active license
  • (New York State Liquor Authority / Tamaqua)
• Dockside has a valid and active license
  • (New York State Liquor Authority / Dockside Cafe)

Ollie Wesp enjoys a drink at Tamaqua Bar. (Katya Pronin / April 2, 2008)

Via AM New York (New York real estate: Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn)

Check out this article featuring Gerritsen Beach

Situated on a peninsula in southeast Brooklyn is an enclave characterized by bungalows nesting on small lots, fishing boats and houses outfitted with American flags, wind chimes, lawn ornaments and holiday decorations.

Only one road, Gerritsen Avenue, leads in and out of the neighborhood, which is often compared to a sleepy New England fishing town.

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Tamaqua St Patricks Day

No matter how you spent your st. patricks day I hope everyone was safe and had a good time. I spent my day at the Tamaqua, where there was good food, Irish step dancing from Maureen OReiley O’Malley and a live band (Alive N Kickin’)

There really isn’t a story but I took alot of pictures.

Check out the Photo Gallery

Via NY Daily News

By the time the snow settled, the Sarubbi family of Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, found themselves neck-deep in all things ski related.

Along the way, John and Cathy Sarubbi also discovered that their daughter Caitlin is a skiing phenomenon - she has ranked as one of the top disabled skiers in the country.

The couple, who were high school sweethearts, rediscovered their love of the sport and found they were pretty good teaching others how to enjoy it.

That’s why, as you read this, the Sarubbis - FDNY Firefighter John, 46; Cathy (she doesn’t do the age thing), daughters Caitlin, 17, Jamie, 14, Bre, 11, Casey, 7 months, and son Jon-Jon, 8, are at the Adaptive Sports Center at Windham Mountain in the Catskills, teaching 29 disabled veterans from across the country how to ski.

Part of the Wounded Warrior program that promotes sporting activity for disabled vets, the annual ski weekend lets soldiers who lost limbs in the Iraq conflict learn to use mono-skis, outrigger ski poles and basket chairs to free themselves on the slopes.

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SSJ Development is ready to break ground on 3 sites in Brooklyn, including Bergen Beach, Knapp St. and Gerritsen Beach (Lacon Court), thanks to $100 Milliion loan from Amalgomated Bank.

The third project, which won’t break ground for several months, is planned for Gerritsen Beach (Lacon Court). The development, a three-story building with 64 units starting at $349,000, will be called the Riviera. The 3.25-acre site comprises 22 lots Mr. Jemal bought up over the past seven years and was once the site of a marina, a repair yard for boats, a billiards club, and a place where a local resident was collecting pigeons.

“It was really beat up,” he said. “It needed attention.”

Some residents of Gerritsen Beach said that while they believed the waterfront needed improvement, they were against Mr. Jemal’s project.

“It’s going to add congestion and change the character of the neighborhood,” a mother of three who grew up in the area, Margaret McCormick, said. Her husband, Kevin, said residents could do little to stop the development.

Still, they and other opponents are hoping that the cost of cleaning up the contaminated soil from the old boat yard will make it too expensive to build the project.

“What he wants to build is the equivalent of a 35-foot wall along a whole stretch of the waterfront,” Mr. McCormick said. “These are fourth-generation families living in houses on double lots. This isn’t Florida.”

Mr. Jemal contended that he is building within the zoning requirements for the area and that his buildings will add to the character of the existing neighborhoods.

“I’m reclaiming the waterfront and opening it up,” he said. “What I’m doing in South Brooklyn will be on line before anything they’re doing in North Brooklyn.”

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