There’s a new BID director on the block. Lifelong Ridgeite Denise Fogarty is officially the new director of the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), a post she took over from Patrick Condren, the BID’s executive director since the organization’s creation in 2006. Fogarty told this paper that she plans on moving the avenue forward in terms of changing with
All was merry and bright at Fifth Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway on Saturday, December 12, when the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue BID hosted its
The issue of safety was on the table as members of the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District gathered for their annual meeting at the Bay Ridge Manor on Tuesday, June 11.
Councilmember Vincent Gentile talked about the long-awaited arrival of NYPD-issued security cameras that are comin …
In an effort to keep street corners along the shopping strip clean and inviting, Third Avenue businesses have launched an Adopt-a-Basket program for the thoroughfare.
So far, about 10 merchants along the strip have signed on to the program, which is supported
by the cityÂ’s Departme …
Some stores in New York and around the country saw Black Fridayweekend crowds become downright dangerous. At businesses insouthern Brooklyn, though, the atmosphere was busy, but stillcivilized.
It was a little bit busier, but not too much. It was like aregular Friday, said Javier Sanchez, …
Despite opening hundreds of superstores in all corners of thecountry and across the globe, Walmart has faced years of oppositionin its efforts to open a New York City outpost, first in Manhattan,then Staten Island and most recently in Queens. But with jobsscarce and the city eager to court ever-b …