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FLATBUSH HOTEL
BREWS HOSTILITY Golden
concedes
his seat
Locals, pols
rally against
new lodge
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They want this hotel developer
to check out!
A builder must stop work
on its in-progress inn rising
along Kings Highway in East
Flatbush, locals and pols demanded
at a recent protest.
Roughly 30 opponents including
Councilman Jumaane
Williams (D–Flatbush) and
Assemblywoman Helene
Weinstein (D–Flatbush) came
together on Nov. 10 to blast
the out-of-town developer for
erecting the hotel on land between
Foster Avenue and Farragut
Road, a historically industrial
area where visitors
seldom want to spend the
night, according to Williams.
“This is not an area that
needs hotels, this is not a destination
spot for tourists,” he
said.
The lodge’s lot is bordered
by the busy Kings Highway
and a freight-train track, and
surrounded by auto-repair
shops and scrap yards, with
few amenities and subway and
bus stations nearby.
In August, Department of
Buildings bigwigs approved
Queens-based developer
Sandhu Builders’s plans to
construct the three-story hotel
on the property, which is
owned by Long Island–based
BOWED OUT: Marty Golden.
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
He offi cially ended the Golden
age.
Republican Marty Golden
formally conceded his Southern
Brooklyn seat of 16 years
to Democratic rival and state
Senator–elect Andrew Gounardes
on Monday, 13 days
after Gounardes claimed an
Election Day victory in the
race to represent the state’s
22nd Senate district, which
includes Bay Ridge, Dyker
Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine
Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend,
and parts of Sheepshead
Bay, Borough Park, and
Midwood.
“I congratulate Andrew
Gounardes and wish him well
in his service to the people of
the 22nd state Senate District,”
state Sen. Golden said.
Days after the highly anticipated
race, Golden on Nov.
8 vowed not to bow out until
election offi cials counted every
ballot, even after Gounardes
pulled ahead by more
than 1,100 votes, according to
the most-recent data from the
state Board of Elections, which
does not yet refl ect more than
1,800 absentee ballots cast in
the district.
Offi cials with the Kings
County Board of Elections accepted
those ballots through
Need a lift?
Workers hoisted a 2003 Nissan Sentra out of a ditch on Avenue V near Bedford Avenue in Sheepshead
Bay, after the 89-year-old motorist behind the wheel of the car drove it off the road and into the sixfoot
deep trench, sustaining minor injuries, on Nov. 14. Photo by Steve Solomonson
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