Nope. It’s just another day at the office for local blogger and critically acclaimed playwright, Mark Brown.
Formerly a big time Hollywood actor – nowadays Brown calls a 75th street Starbucks his office, where, just yesterday, the Daily News caught up with Bay Ridge’s very own Oscar Wilde – apparently typing various things, and not wearing any pants.

“If you dressed me in a suit and tie, I would be too constricted,” says Brown of his sartorial predilections.

“People probably look at me and think I sit here all day Googling porn.”

Which is totally unbelievable considering Brown has authored several plays, including: Around the World in 80 Days (just optioned by the Irish Rep Theater), The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, and his most recent project, a musical, “China the Whole Enchilada”

When not writing hit plays, Mark puts on the PJ’s of a concerned civic activist; where on his blog, Left in Bay Ridge, he’s been an outspoken critic of over development and the need to preserve structures like the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church.

(photo courtesy: NYDaily News, Tod Maisel)

When we first reported Marty’s plans to stage a “Rally to Save Key Food” back in May, there were those who felt it amounted to little more than an exercise in futility, a PR stunt – mostly at the expense of disenfranchised seniors.

Well, as it turns out, local residents present for the May 31 rally echoed many of those same sentiments – confirmed in the latest installment of Paxen Films’ Bay Rizz, ‘Key Food is Key.’

In an interview with Senator Golden, Bay Rizz correspondent Mike Rizzo reiterates rally-goers’ frustrations, saying he felt “something could have been done sooner.”

To which Golden replied: “You could feel that but it has to be based on some facts… we here rumors about places closing but there is no way for us to verify rumors.”

It’s hard to understand what Marty was hoping to derive from this exercise; but when you ask 100 or so pissed-off seniors to give up their Saturday morning/afternoon to ride their electric wheelchairs down to their favorite supermarket that’s closing in less than 3 weeks – you better have something to tell them, other than how out of touch you are with the word on the street.

Somehow a new Key Food opening 28 blocks north (sometime in the near future) is going to be little consolation to people who struggle to ride an extra 3 blocks just to get to Foodtown.

Bay Ridge threw a ‘supermarket war,’ except no supermarkets cared to show up.

Unlike Bay Ridge’s very real bank buildup – to characterize what’s happening with local supermarkets as a ‘war,’ could more accurately be described as a cry for humanitarian aid.

Despite the calls of angry residents incensed over the prospect of walking 3 extra blocks to Foodtown – Key Food of 95th street will close on schedule, by the end of the month, to make way for a much decried Walgreen’s Pharmacy.

Now, almost out of nowhere, the Brooklyn Eagle is reporting (probably via a Golden press-release) that another Key Food supermarket is poised to open somewhere in northern Bay Ridge, along 69th street – this fall.

The newest Key Food will reportedly boast parking ‘across the street,’ leaving only a few possible locations for the new supermarket; namely, the 4th avenue Rite Aid as the most likely.

However, all hope is not lost for southern Bay Ridge – Richard Martin is reportedly in talks with Walgreen’s corporate offices to get them to sell produce and other foods at their 95th street location.

Thanks to some investigative work by fellow our Bay Ridge Blogger, The Phantom, we now know the site of the new northern Bay Ridge Key Food.

According to Senator Golden’s office – the site of the new Key Food is 242 Bay Ridge avenue (69th street), between 3rd avenue and Ridge Boulevard. Which appears on google maps to be the site of the old “Harry’s Furniture” showroom.

A Bay Ridge Synagogue that’s been a fixture at the corner of 81st street and 4th avenue for almost 8 decades, appears destined for the same fate as that of another coveted 4th avenue religious institution – the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church – confirms this week’s Brooklyn Paper.

First broke last month by local blogger Left in Bay Ridge – Congregation Sheiris Israel, better known as the Bay Ridge Jewish Community Center, has reportedly voted to tear down their synagogue and sell the lot to developers who will undoubtedly build more condos.

The Synagogue, much like their Green Church Methodist neighbors, have cited a dwindling congregation as the reason for their downsizing, but insist the programs underwritten by their Synagogue will not be cut; opting instead, again, much like the Methodists – to build a smaller synagogue proportionate to their membership needs.

(photo courtesy of Left in Bay Ridge)

Bob Capano, longtime executor of Congressman Vito Fossella’s Bay Ridge office, has officially announced his candidacy for the 46th district Assembly seat against Democratic incumbent – Alec Brook-Krasney.

Capano, wh0′s enjoys the backing of the Kings County Republican party, is being touted as a ‘lifelong community leader’, who will: ‘reform the dysfunctional ways of Albany and serve as a strong and independent voice for our community,” said Chairman Craig Eaton of the Brooklyn Republican Party.

The highly gerrymandered 46th District is comprised of random clusters of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island.

Jerry Kassar, Chairman of the Brooklyn conservative Party, said Capano is a lifelong community leader who ‘will fight for conservative values in Albany. Kassar took a swipe at Brook-Krasney, calling him a ‘rubber stamp liberal.

In addition to being Congressman Fossella’s aide-de-camp, Capano is chairman of the Brooklyn Young Republicans, and president of the 68th Precinct Youth Council.

Capano’s run for the 46th AD seat all but assures Golden’s Press Secretary, John Quaglione, as the likely Republican nominee in the upcoming City Council election.