We create a 3RD ave Merchant Coalition We target KEY businesses on 3rd ave (the ones having the most benefit from the organization) we ask them to pay $50 month ($600 year 10% discount for yearly pmt, 20% for 2 years) We have members of the “old guard” and the fresh blood visit and propose this to the key businesses and have them sign up now! We offer AUTO monthly credit card billing for the dues (completely eliminating the ineffective current collection process) Every 3 months we do an expose on one participating businesses and tout their wares and how they are making a difference – 1 business per quarter We…
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Judging a BIDS Success
There can be NO generalities Repeating “IT WORKS – IT WORKS” does not make it so.We need specifics on exactly what we are paying for and how we can determine if the BID is an actual success. Each item that is proposed for the BID must have, in detail, the costs & services we will receive and HOW it will be measured for success. Read More If an item is Marketing, than we need to know how much will be spent, what venues will marketing be concentrated, what type of marketing will be done (if you are a 99 cent store, marketing pizza is not beneficial) and HOW we will…
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5 Million and Counting.
After spending over $5 Million the avenue is dirty and the cheap BID signs are small and barely visible. Money well spent? Do we want to follow their example? A sad graveyard of it’s former self. Walking down 5th ave today I was taken aback by its decay and 3rd world feel. Myself and a friend commented simultaneously how dirty and unsafe we felt. Homeless, bottle collectors, the garbage combined with the gloomy and dirty looking stores was a realization of the failed BID and the govt’s policies in general. The kicker was the BID cleaner sweeping the street whilst a Sanitation agent tickets a building for garbage! – As…
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Will A New BID For Bay Ridge Bring It Back The Way It Was?
By Ben Verde -July 26, 2019Read Article at Bklyner A proposed Third Avenue Business Improvement District is proving to be a hard sell to Bay Ridge merchants and building owners. During a public hearing Thursday night, BID supporters took a grilling from skeptical business owners, many of whom said the proposed fees were unnecessary, and did not trust that the agreed-upon fees would not be raised. James Ellis, a consultant hired by BID supporters, got into several spats with attendees, at one point telling a woman he was exchanging words with she “could leave” if she was done speaking. “I’m involved in several bids,” said Anthony Pennachio, a property owner on Third…
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July 25th BID Meeting Highlights
$560,000 Budget! $45,000/month – and they could not tell us how they arrived at that number and who was getting it! $240,000 Administration COSTS – HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 120K for marketing? We were greeted with a vague presentation of how great a BID is and how it benefits us all. No details on exact services, no metrics for success – all we heard was emotion and nostalgia of how it used to be and how we MUST address this crisis or we will have other opportunity to fix it. They filled 80% of the time with members of BID’s that have been “successful” – Park Slope and 5th Ave. They spoke…
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July 25 10am & 7pm VOTE NO to the 3rd ave BID
2 Meetings same day – PLEASE ATTEND July 25th, 10am and 7pmSt Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church192 81st Street All MUST attend to voice our NO vote against the 3rd ave BID! Now is the time to STOP the BID before it consumes your hard earned money. Remember, once a BID is started its almost IMPOSSIBLE to STOP and requires more and more money each year. Already it wants to suck $550,000 a yer form us – does any of us make $550,000 a year profit? Anyone? Just ask about the 5th ave BID – millions spent for nothing.
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$900 A Year To START!
As I been stating, the 3rd ave BID will begin costs at $900 per year per owner!!!! That’s another $83 a month to start!!! Remember i have a lot of experience with BIDS and they always increase in cost. The NY BID is now over $3000 per year! We all must have begun receiving the letter from the FAILED 3rd ave merchant association informing us of the PRIVILEGE to pay them. Turn over the page and review the planner of this theft! The SAME people that failed us for years at the Merchant association! These same failures want a guaranteed $600,000 a year to start from us. Lets review the…
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The decay of our way of life
First Pot, than sex, than infanticide – yes we need a BID to help us take back our morals, our society and our businesses. Our socialistic Mayer, the corrosive business policies, the FREE FREE FREE items to all – and “they” want to charge us more for a BID? The designers of this disaster will not be here to pay for this distribution of our income. They are from the past, with failed ancient ideas and zero business acumen. Who put them in charge? You? Me? I don’t remember anyone asking us if we needed their help – if we did we would have PAID for their failed Merchant Association.…
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5th ave Garbage
Sorry i could NOT allow this to go. EVERY garbage can had trash bags outside it. Every corner had filthy grease stains on the corner – is this what a BID does – keep trash on the street in the middle of the day? Sadly YOU pay for it – they will do ANYTHING to keep the money flowing into their pockets.
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Can you see it?
Driving down 5th ave today, I had to look really hard to “see” the expensive signs that draw so much business to the area. Can you see them now? They cost well over 3 million dollars of your hard earned money. Lets not forget, the 5th ave BID for doing such a great job has been awarded another 3 million dollars to “study” the business problems of the area – lets review this, the BID has been in existence for several years, has wasted millions of your dollars and NOW needs more money to STUDY the problem? Yes my friends, the power that run these BIDS will do anything to…
