The Brooklyn Standard

This article appeared in the 25 February issue of The Brooklyn Eagle.

Residents of Gerritsen Beach derailed an $800,000 plan last week that would have remodeled their neighborhood’s main access road with a Greenstreets median.

Most insisted that the only answer to the area’s safety concerns is a single traffic signal — a $160,000 project that has been repeatedly rejected by the city for over 30 years.

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State Senator Marty Golden feilds questions from Gerritsen Beach residents, Feb. 13, 2008.

This article appeared in the 21 February issue of am New York.

St. Albans is a quiet middle-class neighborhood in eastern Queens, but just beneath lies a level of culture, politics and heritage that not all New York neighborhoods can boast.

PS 136 Roy Wilkins School at 201-15 115th Ave ST. ALBANS is named in honor of the prominent African American civil rights activist who was assistant NAACP secretary during the early 1930’s. (RJ Mickelson / amNewYork)

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The Golden Gate Motor Inn in Sheepshead Bay has gone where all financial sinkholes on valuable Brooklyn property go: death row. And the motel’s new owner may have plans to demolish the building in favor of a more lucrative business, but not without community input first.

Harshad “Nick” Patel of the development company Krishna Management LLC and the owner of the Golden Gate, asked Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to call an informal meeting for Feb. 5, ostensibly to take suggestions from the community. Local groups invited to the meeting included Community Board 15, the Sheepshead Bay/Plum Beach Civic Association and the Bay Improvement Group. Patel, however, did not attend.

The newly renovated Golden Gate Motor Inn on Knapp St. in Sheepshead Bay.

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