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Bay Ridge archive

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011

Dems take on Grimm’s ‘job-killing canard’ in health care debate

Bay Ridge: The repeal of President Obama’s landmark health care reform on Wednesday was punctuated with plenty of Brooklyn moxie — and a few indirect swipes at freshman Rep. Michael Grimm, the only Republican in the city’s congressional delegation. Comments (4).

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011

Rep. Grimm — a former Marine — hires a bodyguard to protect him in a post-Arizona world

Bay Ridge: Soldier-turned-Congressman Michael Grimm has hired a former NYPD detective who will “act as a bodyguard” for himself and staffers in the wake of the Arizona shootings — but Brooklyn’s lone Republican member of Congress is apparently our only local lawmaker to take such a drastic step. Comments (6).

Thief is a fool for tools

Bay Ridge: A house is pilfered for equipment. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’s 68th Precinct. Comment.

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011

Simon’s ‘Gingerbread’ is savory, not sweet at Ridge Rep

Theater: Don’t let the name fool you. Comment.

Friday, Jan. 14, 2011

Grimm: House members should pack heat if they want

Bay Ridge: Gun-slinging G-man-turned-Republican Rep. Michael Grimm wants beefed up security training for him and his House colleagues in the wake of last weekend’s Arizona shootings — and lesson one is that lawmakers should consider packing heat. Comments (23).

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011

Cops: This is the guy who robbed the Bay Ridge bank

Bay Ridge: The FBI has has identified the principal suspect in the armed robbery of the Ridgewood Savings Bank on Third Avenue on Dec. 23. Comments (1).

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