Tonight: Sheepshead Bay-Plumb Beach Civic Association Meeting
Meeting announcement from the Sheepshead Bay-Plumb Beach Civic Association:
Erica Sherman
Morning Mug: Red Wig District
According to the photographer, this appeared in the window on a side street in Brighton Beach. To me it looks like Raggedy Ann ran away and joined the circus. Photo by Karen Hill
Morning Mug: Bay 1 Panorama
Click to enlargeI know it’s kind of a goofy shape, but it’s a lovely photo nonetheless. Photo by Allen Veksler.
Puzzle: Up The Down Staircase
From the photographer: > Took a walk around Neptune Avenue in Brighton and found this gem on Brighton 3 Street and Banner 3 Terrace. Wouldn’t this make a great movie set in so many ways? Perfect for the balcony scene in West Side Story as Tony and Maria sing
61st Precinct Crime Statistics: 4/9 – 4/15/2012
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Morning Mug: Blessed, Warm Fog
> “It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.” — Joseph Conrad Photo by Boris Vestfrid
Morning Mug: Sand + Box = Sandbox?
Photo by Michelle Selwa
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Cell Phone Collection To Support Cancer Research
“Pretty in Purple,” the Relay for Life team that Jessica Rosen — one of our friends (and supporters) from Big Apple Sewer [/advertising/www/delivery/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=74__zoneid=6__cb=ba5721e3da__oadest=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FuQWrbh] — belongs to just kicked off a new fundraiser that
Morning Mug: Walk Along The Boards
Shot from Ocean Parkway. What an incredible photo. Photo by Allan Shweky
Lectures
Lecture: Kings Bay Y Presents “Ladies of Comedy: Phyllis Diller”
Phyllis Diller. Source: WikipediaCUNY Professor, Dr. Ira Epstein, will continue his “Ladies of Comedy [/monday-kings-bay-y-presents-ladies-of-comedy-carol-burnett/]” series at the Kings Bay YM-YWHA with the lecture, “Ladies of Comedy: Phyllis Diller,” April 25 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Kings Bay YM-YWHA, 3495 Nostrand Avenue between Avenue U
Morning Mug: Blessed Is The Match
The poem, “Ashre Hagafrur” (“Blessed is the Match”), engraved into the stone marker nearest to the foreground, is the last poem Hannah Szenes (pronounced “Senesh”) wrote before she parachuted into a Yugoslavian partisan camp in an effort to rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz: > Blessed is
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Public Hearing On NYC Water Board Proposed 7% Rate Hike
Photo by Yuriy SemenovThere will be a public hearing of the New York City Water Board at 7:00 p.m., April 24, at Public School 222, 3301 Quentin Road in Marine Park, concerning a proposed seven percent increase on water rates. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.