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Op-ed: Is Bay Ridge really a Republican stronghold?
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, enter the “red mirage.” The phrase was coined before election night this year to remind people that Republican candidates across the country could gain a lead that would later evaporate after mail-in ballots were counted. And that is exactly what happened, including in my neighborhood of Bay Ridge. Now that the foggy mirage of Republican victories in Brooklyn has lifted with state Sen. Andrew Gounardes …
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The 2010s through a Brooklyn lens
Somewhere during the last 10 years, Brooklyn’s novelty wore off. It was no longer surprising that a person would run a supper club out of their loft; a BDSM dungeon, on the other hand, or a venue out of a cheese cave, now that was original. Moving further out on the L Train wasn’t out of the ordinary, though your commute would probably be a disaster at some point. The greater concern was that gentrification was rampant and unchecked, and showed no signs of ending. Businesses that embodied the DIY, creative spirit of the “new” Brooklyn disappeared; the old ones that represented the Brooklyn that would never change died, too. For a moment it …
The big winners in the city’s 2020 budget
Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and City Council Financial Chair Daniel Dromm announced on Friday that the city has reached an agreement on a $92.8 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2020. “The budget is balanced, it’s progressive … and it’s early,” de Blasio said. The budget provides $329 million in new savings and an additional $250 million for the city’s reserve fund, bringing that fund to almost $6 billion. Of this, $1.15 billion is in the city’s general reserves, and $4.57 billion is in …