Agreement between Bay Ridge and Norwegian town makes them sister cities
Bay Ridge’s Scandinavian heritage will be front and center onOctober 29, when Leif Ericson Park becomes the stage for a ceremonyjoining the neighborhood of Bay Ridge with the Farsund Municipalityof Vest Agder in Norway as sister cities.
The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the park near theSixth Avenue and 66th Street entrance, where the 17th of May Paradeends each year, and where a sunset maple, a Norwegian maple hybrid,will be planted in memory of the 69 people who perished in the Julyterror attacks in Oslo and Utoya, Norway.
The occasion was orchestrated by City Councilmember VincentGentile and the Scandinavian East Coast Museum (SECM), working inconjunction with the Norwegian town that has long showed itssolidarity with the county of Kings, where so many Scandinavianssettled during the earlier years of the 20th century.