Between the Bridges in Broad Channel
by
Peter J. Mahon
“Elementary? – Much Ado About Nothing!”
Back in August, “Elementary,” a CBS crime series starring Johnny Lee Miller as a contemporary Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as his modern day Watson, set up shop at the end of West 12th Road in Broad Channel and spent almost 6 hours filming a scene for this season’s e second episode, entitled “The Five Orange Pipz” which aired on November 6th.
I had the opportunity to view the episode online and, as long as you don’t blink, you will see a scene in the opening minutes of the episode, lasting less than 3 seconds, showing a man walking up the stairs and entering the front door of John Cotton’s house at the end of W12th Road. That 3 second scene is the sole extent of Broad Channel’s involvement in the episode. Elementary? William Shakespeare said it better - “Much ado about nothing!”
Last week all of us here in Broad Channel experienced the first real nor’easter of the 2014-15 winter season. The slow moving coastal storm, coming just 9 days after the close of the 2014 hurricane season, brought with it a record setting 3.04 inches of rain accompanied by strong winds and prolonged street flooding. The one saving grace to the storm was the warm temperature which meant no snow!
Following months of continual delays and multiple rounds of review of an application filed in order to replace postal facilities in Broad Channel destroyed during Super Storm Sandy U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and our State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder have written a letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe requesting the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) immediately approve the bureaucracy mired application by the Broad Channel Civic Association to open a Contract Postal Unit in Broad Channel in the All American Channel Market.
The Broad Channel Civic Association has, for some time now, published its own Facebook Page. Thanks to the hard work of Natalie Grant, the association’s newsletter editor, the Civic now has its very own web site which can be accessed at broadchannelcivic.org
The good news is that the price of a gallon of gasoline has recently fallen dramatically resulting in all of us seeing some wiggle room in our household budgets. The bad news is that anytime we manage to save a couple of bucks there are always those in our government who will find a way to try and grab it. There is some discussion ongoing in the U.S. Senate to raise the current 18 cents a gallon federal gas tax by 12 cents over the next 2 years, a 66% tax increase! If this discussion actually comes to fruition, the three best words I can use to describe the Grinches in our U.S. Senate are, and I quote, “Stink, Stank, Stunk!”
Before we close, after much contemplation regarding the question posed by the always inscrutable Kevin Boyle in his Boyleing Points column last week…“Why doesn’t an egg taste like chicken?”, I would like to offer the following words of wisdom - Listen up Grasshopper, once you can determine which came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer to your query shall become clear!
Broad Channel, why would anyone want to live anywhere else?
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