231 brighton 2nd lane
Location of the fire (Source: Google maps)A fire broke out in a residential building at 231 Brighton 2nd Lane just after midnight this morning, lighting up the Brighton Beach skyline. The two-alarm fire ripped through an unoccupied two-story dwelling, and took firefighters nearly an hour to bring under control.
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A pink dress on Voorhies Avenue, as depicted by artist Nikira. Image source: skine.artWe haven’t posted anything about our local watercolor wonder and moleskin mayven, artist Nikira [/tag/nikira/], since early 2010. It’s high time that change. Nikira — real name: Irina Chtypel — illustrated, and posted on skine.
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Another beauty from Nikira’s moleskine [http://www.skineart.com/art/14534/driveway-manhattan-beach-brooklyn-mem/].
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We stumbled across this cute watercolor of Manhattan Beach – that’s Kingsborough Community College in the background – and thought we’d share it with you. The art comes to you courtesy of Nikira, who has a lot of really awesome New York scenes sketched and painted into her little Moleskin