Bay Ridge [Paperback]

A community overlooking the New York Bay, Bay Ridge began to change in the 1900s and has since continued to evolve. Rapid population growth in the 20th century caused the community to shift from an agrarian society to a prime urban center of stores, houses of worship, homes, and mass transportation.Title: 57th BRCC Presidents' Luncheon Is 'Who's Who in Bay Ridge' Success
Author: Harold Egeln
Publisher: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Date: 2/16/2009

It was a huge turnout of Who's Who in Bay Ridge at the stellar 57th Annual Bay Ridge Community Council's Luncheon, with a parade of praise for the Council founded in 1951.

Presiding over the invitation-only event which honors heads of the Council's 100-plus member organizations was President Arlene Keating. Handling arrangements was Executive Secretary Gloria Melnick.

Our neighborhoods are the keys to New York City, said Sen. Schumer at the Bay Ridge Manor on Saturday. Bay Ridge personifies what our neighborhoods are like, for its 156 years. It is one of the great neighborhoods of the city and everyone knows it.

Noting the council's long history, Schumer said: For all the years I've been in public life since 1974, Bay Ridge has always stood out for the neighborhood you've fought for through thick and thin. To everybody who kept Bay Ridge the beautiful, wonderful place that it is, served by all its elected officials, I make a toast to 100 more great years of Bay Ridge!

Council President Arlene Keating and Executive Secretary Gloria Melnick, luncheon chief organizer, presented Schumer with a special gift - the new photo book, the local best seller Bay Ridge Then & Now (Arcadia Press) by Bay Ridge Historical Society leaders Lawrence Stelter and Peter Scarpa.

Nine years since I emigrated from Flatbush, I know there's no place in America that has the support system for people to be directly involved in their community as Bay Ridge, said Brooklyn District Attorney Hynes. He ulB