Video of last week’s meeting of the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association meeting taken by Sheepshead Bites. In case you were wondering, taking video during the public segment of these meetings is totally OK. That was covered at a shitshow earlier in the year.
It was, ahem, a busy and interesting week in South Blogistan.
- Please remember we’re starting our Facebook page over from scratch. It’s emotionally needy and perceives its self-worth when other people Like it. Which sums up Facebook, in a nutshell.
- So, Gerritsen Beach, what did you do on Halloween? Have a little wholesome fun? Go out in large, family-friendly packs of fun and deplete the New Section of its candy stores? Or did you throw eggs and rocks at the B31 and brag about it on Facebook? Of course, anyone who has followed two or more meetings of the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association knows that there’s nothing they hate more than self-outing teenage punk-ass thugs bloggers who publish photos of self-outing teenage punk-ass thugs on the Web (which, as pointed out, is World Wide). Because if he’s taking pictures of children in public spaces committing crimes, he must be a pedophile. Obviously! (GerritsenBeach.net, Sheepshead Bites, Gothamist)
- This past Saturday was the rally at Ruby’s Bar & Grill – very likely its last day ever – to save itself and eight other Boardwalk businesses from eviction at the hands of Luna Park operator Central Amusements International (Zamperla). It sure was a dick move on CAI’s part early this year to encourage the Boardwalk 11 to invest serious cash into their business – Ruby’s dropped $40,000 just by themselves – without giving them lease guarantees. But I warned a few weeks ago against obsessing over battles with Thor Equities that had already been lost by amusement advocates, and specifically cited the threat of wholesale change on the Boardwalk by companies not named Thor Equities. Glad to see everybody listened to me! (Amusing The Zillion, Gothamist)
- There was a Marathon in New York yesterday, didn’tcha hear? There was a Chilean miner and everything. One or two people got some pretty good pictures. (Bay Ridge Blog, Beehive Hairdresser, Bay Ridge Journal)
- Speaking of the Marathon, the race director seems to think “that Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge was catching up with First Avenue in Manhattan for crowd support,” as if it is some sort of surprise. (NY Times)
Hey – a reader mentioned the other day that they didn’t like the name “Blogistan.” It sounds too Communist or something. Even though I got away from it for a little while, it’s the name I gave to this news roundup the 
