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Hotel Horrors Become Affordable Residential Units: 5th Avenue Rezoning

Neighbors shot down plans to build a hotel at this vacant lot at 9114 Fifth Avenue between 91st and 92nd Streets last year. Now the developer wants to rezone the area to develop a 9-story mixed-use development with affordable housing. (Screenshot: Google Maps)BAY RIDGE — A developer looking to build

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The Home Reporter To Make Epic Endorsement For Golden

Marty Golden. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – The Home Reporter, for the first time in more than six decades, is throwing their support behind a local political candidate and they’re siding with the boss’ friend — State Sen. Marty Golden. Charles “Chuck” F. Otey, long-time Southern Brooklynite and Golden

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Molinaro Needs Help Answering Questions About Brooklyn

Gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro (Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CONEY ISLAND – The Republican candidate for Governor Marc Molinaro made a low-profile stop Saturday in Coney Island, and demonstrated both why he’s the sort of Republican who — in theory — could win quite a few votes in Brooklyn, and why he’s got

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Local Group Challenges State Senator Golden At Bay Ridge Summer Stroll

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBAY RIDGE – “Would you like a balloon? It’s from State Senator Marty Golden,” a man carrying a bundle of yellow balloons asked everyone who passed by the table that read “Re-Elect Marty Golden.” In a span of a few hours, Summer Stroll (which closed Third Avenue

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EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Gounardes On Guns And Simcha Felder

Andrew Gounardes. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – Moms Demand Action [https://momsdemandaction.org/] believes Andrew Gounardes, who is running for the State Senate seat currently occupied by Marty Golden, is a Gun Sense Candidate of Distinction for his position on gun safety. “Every single day in this country, dozens

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Senator Golden Finally Calls On Senate To Pass Speed Camera Bill

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerAfter a 24-hour vigil outside his office [/golden-traffic-vigil/] and a rally near a public school [/treyger-speed-cameras/], State Senator Marty Golden is calling for the Senate to reconvene to pass the speed camera bill. The bill, S. 6046-C [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s6046/amendment/c]

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Treyger Calls On State Senate At Rally As Clock Ticks on Speed Camera Programs

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGRAVESEND – With a program for speed cameras outside schools set to expire on July 25, Council Member Mark Treyger, along with Transportation Alternatives [https://www.transalt.org/], Families for Safe Streets [https://www.transalt.org/familiesforsafestreets], and the Department of Education, are calling on state senators to

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Family, Friends of Traffic Victims Hold Vigil Outside Senator Marty Golden’s Bay Ridge Office

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBAY RIDGE – “The nights are the hardest. My son would’ve graduated, went to his prom this week, had a girlfriend… maybe,” Amy Cohen said, choking up. “I just miss him every day.” Parents, spouses, and loved ones gathered outside Senator Marty Golden’s Bay Ridge office

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Senate Candidate Proposes Tax Plan To Benefit Small Businesses

The Bookmark Shoppe in Bay Ridge is one example of a local small business. (Photo: The Bookmark Shoppe)In an effort to improve on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “Internet Fairness Conformity Tax” [https://www1.avalara.com/us/en/blog/2018/01/cuomo-proposes-internet-fairness-tax-online-sales-new-york.html] proposal, which would make sites like Amazon

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Progressive Groups Protest State Senator’s Drug Comments in Bay Ridge

State Senator Marty Golden has been under fire for comments he made regarding the opioid epidemic (Photo: NYS Senate)BAY RIDGE – In response to State Senator Marty Golden’s racist comments about the opioid epidemic [/local-politicians-respond-to-senator-goldens-ghetto-drug-comment/] made last week, a group of local progressive politicians and community activists protested outside

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Local Politicians Respond to Senator Golden’s “Ghetto Drug” Comment [UPDATE]

Photo: NYS SenateUPDATE- 5:55 pm: Senator Marty Golden just released this statement: “To anyone who was offended by my choice of words regarding the heroin and opioid crisis facing our state, I sincerely apologize. While my words were not articulated clearly or properly, the point I was trying to

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Bay Ridge’s Renovated ‘R’ Train Station Reopens Amid Controversy

Photo: MTA NYC Transit TwitterBAY RIDGE – The Bay Ridge Ave R train station has finally re-opened after renovations that began six months ago [/extensive-bay-ridge-avenue-r-train-station-renovations-approved-bensonhurst/] — and it still lacks elevators. According to last year’s press release from Senator Marty Golden’s office, the improvements were meant to make the station