Hannah Frishberg

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New rendering revealed for Surf Avenue’s towering ‘Ocean Dreams’ development

Photo via Red Apple Real EstateA new rendering has been revealed for “Ocean Dreams [/catsimatidis-scoops-up-new-property-after-city-ignores-coney-islands-west-end-sheepshead-bay/] ” at 3514 Surf Avenue, the 21-story, 311-unit mixed-use development John Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Real Estate filed applications to build on the last day of 2016 [/21-story-apartment-retail-complex-tower-coney-island-boardwalk/]. The building, to be constructed on a vacant Coney

bath beach

62nd Precinct Being Investigated For Illegal Garage Smoking Lounge

The 62nd Precinct – covering Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, and Mapleton – has been in the spotlight this week after a New York Post exposé [https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/nypd-boss-created-illegal-smoking-lounge-at-station-house/] exposed officers had been illegally using a precinct garage as a converted smoking lounge. The Post obtained photos of the garage

mill basin

This Gilded Brooklyn McMansion Has Its Own Boat Dock and Bedroom Sauna

If it weren’t so far – the farthest [http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/100729370274/found-the-brooklyn-residence-thats-farthest-from] , in fact – from the subway, Mill Basin would likely be a much more popular destination for voyeuristic real estate tours and McMansion ogling. The lavishness of this $3.999 million property [http://hcluxuryestate.com/] at

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Councilman calls renderings of neighborhood-changing, 1,000-unit Coney development ‘inaccurate’

Photo via The Prusik GroupCONEY ISLAND – A purportedly inaccurate rendering and information has been released regarding a neighborhood changing development on Coney Island. On January 3rd, New York Yimby [https://www.newyorkyimby.com/2018/01/massive-1000-unit-mixed-use-redevelopment-revealed-at-1709-surf-avenue-coney-island.html] broke the news that developer Prusik Group and Taconic Investment Partners – which is

Feature

From Sea Gate To The South Bronx: One Man Walks Every Block In NYC

Day 1171: Coney Island Light. Sea Gate’s lighthouse, built in 1890. (Photo via Matt Green [http://imjustwalkin.com/2015/03/15/coney-island-light/])There are few places in the United States as pedestrian friendly as New York City, but that doesn’t make the goal of walking the entirety of

Arts & Culture

From 1971 To Present: Photographer Thomas Roma Captures Brooklyn Then & Now

1973. From The Waters of Our Time [http://www.thomasroma.com/essays/44/]. © (Thomas Roma via The Steven Kasher Gallery)Since 1971, Thomas Roma has been taking photos, almost all of them of Brooklyn. A born and bred Brooklynite, in his own words Roma is from “all over in Brooklyn,

Bensonhurst

ICYMI: 18th Avenue’s Annie Sez And Mandee Closing, The Backwards Wheelchair Lady

Now that’s the holiday spirit. (Photo via YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0OrM5sg6BE]) * 18th Avenue’s Annie Sez and Mandee will be closing at the end of January [/18th-avenues-annie-sez-mandees-shop-closing-january-offering-half-off-everything/] . Until then, everything is half off (as long as it lasts) * Who remembers 18th Avenue’s Walker Theater

Announcements

Merry Christmas And Happy Hanukkah To You From The Bensonhurst Bean

Images via dover1185 / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BOHqT4VDrSH/?tagged=charliebrownchristmas&hl=en] and Anna Banana / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tannesphotos/5225453389/in/photolist-8XKPeX-q2Yowd-puiA6T-qf8mdU-BSPLr7-dzSWjs-8Z3bVf-5LUbt4-dBhWHg-q9CgmD-7QwjHg-hVvqNi-4eNBzv-b91Tdz-dJUXKF-pukAv7-3yoxJH-fN9XX2-dyQ1et-q2w6sz-qrdeKp-98wWcn-dsLgEm-5GwByM-aY5cCp-otyZyT-hUPSZM-dySrNC-5LEBUb-qfVKwi-qiUamu-qcCAu3-bDMyQz-naZHWp-79H8fS-dwFxS9-irfGt4-5Lm5wJ-ehmXGe-bHcbvt-92Ssyr-ehgehu-9

Bensonhurst

Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

(Photo via villabatealba / Instagram)Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus has closed; ‘Rebirth’ promised. [/morbid-anatomy-museum-in-gowanus-has-closed-rebirth-promised/] [BKLYNER] Cafe Glechik kicked out of Sheepshead Bay Road location [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/cafe-glechik-kicked-sheepshead-bay-road-location/] . [Sheepshead Bites] Brooklyn neighbors protest eviction of Errol’s Bakery in Flatbush [http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/business/brooklyn-neighbors-protest-eviction-errols-c

Bensonhurst

Where To Go For Christmas Mass In Bensonhurst And Dyker Heights

Saint Finbars. (Photo by Vincent DeMarco)Saint Finbar Catholic Church [http://www.stfinbarbrooklyn.org/] Saint Finbar Catholic Church, via FacebookOn Christmas Eve mass will be held in English at 4 p.m. and at midnight. On Christmas Day mass will be held at 9 a.m. and noon in English,

Bensonhurst

[VIDEO] 20th Avenue Employee Hospitalized After Being Beat With Screwdriver In Failed Robbery

Stills of the perp at the scene of the crime. (Photo via police)Back in November, at close to midnight a creep inside 8322 20 Avenue — an address police describe as a “grocery bodega named Tyolpen” but that we were unable to locate (it’s possible the shop number was

history

Remembering 18th Avenue’s Walker Theater

The Walker Theater, back in the day, 1978 or later judging by the movies listed on its marquee. (Photo via Cinema Treasures [http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1597])We learned yesterday that longtime retail branches Mandee’s and Annie Sez [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/12/18th-avenues-annie-sez-mandees-shop-closing-january-offering-half-off-everything/] will be vacating their

Bensonhurst

Remembering 18th Avenue’s Walker Theater

The Walker Theater, back in the day, 1978 or later judging by the movies listed on its marquee. (Photo via Cinema Treasures [http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1597])We learned yesterday that longtime retail branches Mandee’s and Annie Sez [/18th-avenues-annie-sez-mandees-shop-closing-january-offering-half-off-everything/] will be vacating their shops at 6401 18th Avenue at

Bensonhurst

18th Avenue’s Annie Sez, Mandee Closing In January, Offering Half Off Everything

The windows are covered in wall to wall sale signs. (Photo by Hannah Frishberg / Bensonhurst Bean)The Annie Sez [https://www.yelp.com/biz/annie-sez-brooklyn] and Mandee [https://www.mandee.com/apps/store-locator] retail branches that share a storefront at 6401 18th Avenue will be closing for good on Tuesday,

Bensonhurst

Man Breaks Into Bath Beach Apartment, Steals Money From Resident’s Pocket

The suspect. (Photo via DCPI)The police have finally secured surveillance images of a man who broke into a Bath Beach apartment building back in November. The suspect in question kicked in the door to an apartment building near Bay 17th Street and Bath Avenue on Saturday, November 12, just

Bensonhurst

Feast Your Eyes: The Best Photos Of This Year’s Dyker Heights Lights

In past years people have gotten engaged [/30086/] and burst into song [/watch-dyker-heights-lights-tourists-break-into-song/] beneath the lights in Dyker Heights, but this year the neighborhood’s annual Christmas display made news for tour bus madness [/39793/], the theft of a blowup Santa [/video-dyker-heights-house-robbed-christmas-decoration/] and, of course, being among (if not the)