We’re getting reports of an early morning gang-style beating on 84th street and 5th avenue – at roughly 9:30am.
After all… why WOULDN’T there be an early morning gang attack on 5th avenue!

According to witnesses at the scene, an unknown number of assailants chased one victim into the street, while local shopkeepers and passersby watched in disbelief as the attackers punched and kicked him about the face and body – while at least one elderly man reportedly tried to fend off some of the victim’s attackers until police and EMS could arrive on scene.

Witnesses report at least one perp managed to flee, and that he may have had a knife.

While there’s no apparent motive for this morning’s assault, it does come on the heels of Saturday’s early morning beating/robbery outside Blue Zoo Lounge, just two blocks away from this morning’s attack, which left a 3rd avenue sidewalk caked in that victim’s blood well into the morning.

While the casual observer may simply write this off as some random anomaly, we’re just gonna call it for what it is… AUGUST!

Well, here’s a shock…. Whitney Houston never heard of Bay Ride Ginzoloon hot-spot, Pazzo – except to say that she will most definitely not be playing the club, according to this morning’s Brooklyn Paper.

Now, you can probably take the news a couple of ways.

On one hand, Whitney’s doing better than we thought for NOT having to play the Guidofied all you can eat, surf ‘n’ turf spot.

On the other – Bay Ridge’s Pazzo must be in some rough shape if they have to resort to running a sham publicity campaign, promising an artist whose only recent ‘hit‘ probably came from ex-beau Bobby Brown!

Pazzo’s owners couldn’t be reached for comment; probably because “DA PHONE DON’T F’N WORK, because somebody (I DUNNO WHO) fuhgotta pay d fuck’n Verizon!!!”

(photo courtesy: The Brooklyn Paper)

According to angry testimonials filling our inbox over yesterday’s blood soaked remains found on 3rd avenue – following an early morning robbery/beat-down at popular Guido haunt, Blue Zoo – residents are reporting that the bloodletting may not have ceased.

One tipster reports that the blood previously reported outside the Zoo was, in fact, cleaned – but more blood has apparently been spied on the 84th street side of the club, across from the Zoo’s side entrance. In front of the old Muse’s Cafe.

Fellow blogger Brooklyn Row House paints an unflattering portrait of a Bay Ridge – where the gentrification can’t seem to happen fast enough.

“There were a lot of idiots on the street last night. I left Casa Pepe around 10pm. My g/friend and I walked our respective dogs (a Newfie and two pit bull mixes). We were accosted on Ridge by a short, shirtless, drunk punk who got in my face with “you think yo’ dogs are gonna help you?”

This was probably an amateur attempt at an intimidation mugging so I called 911 and waited for five minutes to meet the cops but they never showed.”

It remains unclear whether this blood is directly related to yesterday’s beat-down robbery, or if the orange skinned patrons of the Bay Ridge club have just taken the fun a few feet away…

Whatever the case may be, the diagnosis isn’t good.

Let’s face it, the mayor of BelMar was dead on accurate with these people; the only difference is he forgot to cross the Bridge, where the number of orange skinned tough guys walking around with manicures, wearing woman’s sunglasses, would make his shit his Dockers.

Let’s face it, at least over the summer, Bay Ridge has ostensibly become the poor-man’s Belmar – predominantly attracting steroid infused Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst wanna-be meatheads, who’s greatest single achievement was selling their grandma’s house on 16th avenue to finance a Masseratti, so they can showboat in front of a crap corner bar.

And with the cops apparently on permanent vacation, what’s a Bay Ridgite to do? Move?

(Brad from Bay Ridge, courtesy: Gawker)

We learn via an email from a passerby of notorious Ginzoloon hot spot, Blue Zoo, that, as of 8:30am this morning, a blood soaked sidewalk and t-shirt is all the evidence that remains of an early morning robbery/assault which took place outside the bar.

According to our reader:

“People need to be aware that there is a serious haz mat issue on the corner of 84th street and 3rd avenue in front of Blue Zoo. I just walked through a pool of blood, and so did a bunch of other people. This wasn’t just a little blood, it was a lot… way too much to leave for some porter to come and hose down into the street. It obviously requires professional remediation.”

The reader goes on to tell us that after initially calling 311, only to no avail, they called 911 for a non-emergency, who confirmed to our tipster that someone was, in fact, beaten and robbed outside the club in the early morning hours, and that arrests were made.

Anyone with any further information on the beat-down/robbery, or status of the blood situation – we’d love to hear about it.

(photo courtesy: supernegro)

The old 4th avenue brushless car wash, between 88th and 89th street, could potentially be the site of the School Construction Authority’s new building project – according to an article in this week’s Courier Life.

Plans for the proposed pre-k to 5 school would take over the car wash, the car stereo dealer and a rear parking lot.

The Department of Education, while confirming interest in those properties, is mum on how far along they are to inking a deal.

“They have to do feasibility studies and environmental studies. They’re moving along. It seems to be so far, so good. There seem to be no issues,” Laurie Windsor, president of School District 20’s Community Education Council, told the Courier.

Just last month, the SCA threatened to exercise eminent domain over a string of 5th avenue businesses across the street from P.S. 104, between 91st and 92nd street – which included Windows We Are, a soon-to be Law Office and a veterinary practice.

The car wash in question closed sometime last year, after it’s original operator’s lease expired and the owner of the property raised his rent to 20K per month (that’s a lot of pine scented air fresheners) and the car stereo place hasn’t seen a customer since big hair, and Styx.

Whitney Houston, the once great Grammy winning singer, songwriter and actress – turned professional full time punching bag to husband, and former singer for New Edition, Bobby Brown – is apparently launching her triumphant return to the stage at none other than prototypical Ginzoloon Bay Ridge Bridge and Tunnel joint, Pazzo, on September 27th.

Houston established herself as a crossover superstar in the late 80’s and early 90’s, with songs such as Step by Step, I wanna Dance with Somebody, which eventually lead to starring roles in movies – most notably in 1992, working opposite Kevin Costner in Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard, with Houston playing a loosely fictionalized version of herself.

Since then, sadly, Houston has essentially abandoned her Grammy studded career as a groundbreaking female vocalist, in exchange for the life of a full-time mother, sometimes drug addict and object of abuse by degenerate piece of shit husband, Bobby Brown.

Houston tried to jump start her career by capitalizing on her troubled life with Brown by participating in Bravo TV’s reality show – Being Bobby Brown.

Since her marriage, and subsequent divorce from Brown after a successful stint in rehab – Houston’s struggled to revive her career with such albums as, ‘Just Whitney’ – but to limited success.

Now it appears Whitney’s betting everything’s she’s got (which, at this point… come on, how much can that be) on Bay Ridge.

Clive Davis would be proud!

July 2nd was the deadline given to professional prick-bastards Cheryl and Robert Cunningham to tear down their 60 foot cinder-block retaining wall – built last year as part of, what we’ve come to affectionately refer to as, the Bay Ridge Spite House.
Well, the deadline’s come and gone – while the wall remains the same fucking eye-sore it’s been since these two miserable assholes built it.

Seriously, folks…

What kind of a miserable, deranged fucking human being builds a house so egregious, so offensive, whereas to make that person a permanent object of disdain by their neighbors – not to mention ostracized by their community!?

It’s fucked up!

Not only has the DOB, the same dipshit city agency that granted these assholes the permits to begin with, rescinded them (issuing a stop work order on a project they’ve repeatedly approved to begin with!) BUT once they actually decided to put the kabosh on this botched abortion of a home remodel – they give the piece of shit owners a totally unenforceable deadline!

If the first house these two fucks built is any indication of what was to come had they actually built a livable structure on the would-be site of the Spite House; consider yourselves lucky, 87th street, that you only got a wall – and not another half-assed replica of some 12th century Japanese house these two culturless fucks saw in a National Geographic 17 yrs ago while honeymooning in Miami.

These are serious certifiable fucking assholes we’re dealing with here, people – and they only keep coming!

Get as mad as hell, Bay Ridge!

Now, right across the street from these arch-pricks lies some other breed of Ginzoloon with his taste up his fucking ass!

This particular fuck-stick tore down what was a low-key Bay Ridge one family house, so he could build the fucking Gotti Estate on 87th street.

David Marangio writes to inform us that the Bay Ridge Food Coop will be holding their next meeting, Tuesday, August 5th at the Brooklyn Public Library – Ridge Boulevard and 73rd street @ 6:30pm.
Plans for the first Bay Ridge Food Coop, which we originally reported on back in June, caused something of a fracas among local coop foodies who were less than impressed with founder-hopeful, Murray Gross’ vision.

Those who participated in June’s exploratory meeting split with Gross on a number of issues, mainly in structure and time line – the details of which attendees felt were, at best, lacking.

It remains to be seen if this meeting of the Bay Ridge Food Coop includes Mr. Gross – or some splinter faction.