A PUBLIC HEARING CONVENED on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Draft State Energy Plan
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Day: September 17, 2025
For the past two years, a small but mighty pet initiative in Bay Ridge has been helping seniors care for their pets. Kiso’s Pet Food Pantry, located at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, has become a vital resource for older residents who sometimes struggle to afford pet food.
Recently, however, the pantry’s founder, Michelle Giancola, faced an unexpected challenge: the theft of the scooter that had helped keep the operation running for eight years.
The pantry began in 2022, after a chance encounter at a church event.
“I met the pastor randomly at a blessing of the animals,” Giancola told Brooklyn Paper. “I have wanted to bring my dog to a blessing of the animals his entire life. I told him, ‘I know you guys do a pantry for people here, but would you be interested in doing one about dogs, but for seniors?’”
Since then, the pantry has provided free bags of dog and cat food every three months. Seniors register their pets, and the team tailors each bag to the animal’s needs. After that, the pantry opens its doors to walk-ups, serving an additional 20 to 30 seniors.
Giancola said the pantry serves between 100 and 130 seniors quarterly.
Kiso’s Pet Food Pantry relies on donations from local pet stores, distributors or neighbors. For years, a key part of keeping things running was Giancola’s scooter.
“I’ve had that scooter for eight years,” she said. “And from the very beginning, I trained my dog to ride in it.”
Two weeks ago, that scooter disappeared.
“Two Wednesdays ago, I left it where I always park it in front of where I live,” she said. “The next day, I was like ‘Where’s my scooter?’ It wasn’t towed and I realized it was stolen.”
Giancola said a neighbor’s security footage showed two teenagers rolling it away around 10:30 p.m.
While the theft hasn’t stopped the pantry, it has made small donation pickups more difficult. “It’s not about the scooter, it’s about getting pet food to help seniors.”
Giancola said many seniors face difficult choices — “there are certain times where they decide to buy food for themselves or their pets,” she told Brooklyn Paper. “And sometimes, the answer is buying food for one and both will eat it. And our goal is not to let that happen.”
Currently, Kiso Pet Pantry delivers to five homebound seniors but hopes to expand with more volunteers and food donations. “We want them to always be able to have enough nutritional food. If they don’t have to worry about dog and cat food, then there’s a better chance they’re going to feed themselves.”
For now, the work continues, scooter or not. “As far as my scooter, I miss it like crazy,” she admitted. “My dog does not want to drive in a car. He only wants to be on the scooter.”
The next event will take place on Sept. 20 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Seniors 62 and older can register online through Wednesday, Sept. 17.
Daniel Greenfield
(Front Page Magazine) In the BLM era, a vile raving bigot was declared our greatest living ‘public intellectual’.
That man, occasional comic book writer and full-time racist Ta-Nehisi Coates was lavished with every award imaginable for expressing such profound thoughts as the 9/11 firefighters and police officers “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
Post-BLM, Coates’ star faded along with that of the other professional DEI bigots, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo and Nikole Hannah-Jones. That ‘black superman’ movie has yet to emerge.
But after Oct 7, Ta-Nehisi Coates did decide to go full Hamas. And I mean full Hamas.
His book, The Message, whose aggressive promotion by CBS News probably helped lead to the conflict that broke off Paramount from the woke herd leading to woke outrage, was simply unabashed antisemitism and terrorist propaganda that stood out even by the standards of a media that had normalized both.
After Oct. 7, Coates co-signed a letter which claimed that “on Saturday, after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza.”
Coates denounced Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, as “a grand narrative of conquered ancestors built by their conquering progeny”.
“This putative ‘Jewish democracy’ is, like its American patron, an expansionist power,” Coates sneers, “and every expansionist power needs a good story to justify its plunder.”
The Jews are guilty of “an enormous con”, he storms, their history is “a poorly wrought fairy tale” and a compensation of “violent impotence” for the Holocaust.
This Der Sturmer-esque rant was published by an imprint of Bertelsmann’s Random House, a former Nazi publisher, now publishing the worst woke books.
On his promotion tour, Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested that he would have also killed and raped Jews.
But now, Vanity Fair decided to publish an article by Coates accusing Charlie Kirk of having “reveled in open bigotry.”
The unintentionally hilarious subheader is “By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.”
Trust an open bigot who attacked 9/11 first responders and suggested he would have killed Jews to talk about legacy sanitizing.
Ta-Nehisi Coates knows of what he speaks since he’s the one who openly reveled in bigotry subsidized by his liberal donors and backers. Vanity Fair are the ones that ought to be held accountable for allowing one of the vilest bigots in public life to sanctimoniously smear Charlie Kirk.
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POLICE SAY TWO WOMEN used a dating app to set up robberies in East Williamsburg. The suspects lured men in their 20s
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