As many of you have noticed by now, the Department of Transportation has done a considerable amount of work on Gerritsen Avenue – removing two lanes of traffic, re-striping of lanes and adding a center median, and adding a pedestrian median at its intersection with Avenue U. Strongly a pessimist when it comes to “traffic reconfiguring” projects, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
View Comments Melissa on Nov 29th 2009
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Christmas Arrives in Marine Park
Christmas has arrived in Marine Park, in the form of truckload of Christmas Tress in the Avenue U parking lot in Marine Park. Every year they setup and sell Christmas Trees of all sizes as well as all of the accessories and other Christmas items that you could possibly think of. Currently, they are organizing [...]
View Comments admin on Nov 28th 2009
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless America!
View Comments Melissa on Nov 25th 2009
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Pleasant Pilgrims on Fillmore Avenue
As the Pilgrims very extremely pious and their “friendship” with the Native Americans skeptical, I find so much irony in the fact that they are now depicted as mass-produced inflatable yard decorations bearing pies and pumpkins. OH just wait until when Christmas comes. I am going to have a FIELD DAY with the inflatable decorations.
View Comments Melissa on Nov 24th 2009
Thank you to Karina Smith, Department of Parks and Recreation’s Correspondence Liaison for Special Projects, for the following information concerning the future Carmine Carro Community Center: The community center is situated within the large outdoor active recreation area of Marine Park, which is also an important natural link to the Jamaica Bay ecosystem. The center [...]
View Comments Melissa on Nov 23rd 2009
Because here at MarineParker we love to butcher things to death, CBS 2 news has contributed to the on the ongoing battle of the bells between local resident John Russo and St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
View Comments Melissa on Nov 23rd 2009
View Comments admin on Nov 22nd 2009
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Picture of the Week
Marine Park on a beautiful Autumn afternoon. Have a wonderful weekend!
View Comments Melissa on Nov 20th 2009
Photo by Mike McLaughlin of the New York Daily News Such wonderful timing! If you have been involved in the fervent discussion during the past few days on the “War of the Bells” post regarding St. Thomas Aquinas Church ringing the bells every hour on the hour and a nearby resident’s (artistic) opposition towards this, you must check out today’s Daily [...]
View Comments Melissa on Nov 20th 2009
A small schoolbus was one of four vehicles involved in an accident this morning on Gerritsen Avenue and Avenue S at approximately 8 AM. GerritsenBeach.net reports that nine people were injured, with three sustaining serious injuries. Anyone have any updates?
Comments Off Melissa on Nov 18th 2009