An animated Councilman Vincent Gentile speaks out against "Brooklyn 11223," joined by dozens of women, including state Sen. Diane Savino (right), who see the show as an offensive misrepresentation of Bay Ridge women.

Councilman Vincent Gentile isn’t gonna let the Oxygen Network’s Bay Ridge-based, reality-based paean to stereotype, “Brooklyn 11223,” sully his neighborhood’s reputation without a fight.

As we’ve reported, last Friday Gentile held a press conference to denounce the show’s “degrading” portrayal of our district’s women and to reassert the sovereignty of the “real women of Bay Ridge.” He represented this demographic with an invited group of Bay Ridge businesswomen, civic activists, political leaders and homemakers who reportedly don’t spend a majority of their time cursing, drinking and dancing in clubs, activities that the female stars of “Brooklyn 11223″ are reputed to endorse.

The new “reality” show follows two ex-friends, Joey Lynn and Christie, whose friendship was torn apart by jealousy and deception, and whose hatred for one another is so consuming that it pervades their other friendships and the friendships of their friends, thus causing rampant  infighting and frequent bouts of drinking, dancing and cursing, all of which take place on the grounds of once-respectable Bay Ridge businesses. read more »