Morning Mug: Soaked On Surf And Stillwell
Shot two Mondays ago. Photo by Erica Sherman
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Morning Mug: Beach Breach
What if a person decided to go into the water, in defiance of the warning, and just floated on their back? Could they claim to an arresting officer, “But… I wasn’t swimming, or bathing — I was floating!” Photo by Boris Shekhman
Morning Mug: I’m Just A Lonely Bench
> Lonely and blue. > I’m all alone, > With nothing to do With apologies to Paul Anka [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKcCaCgMLBE] Photo by James Griffin
Morning Mug: “Evening Mug?”
From the photographer: > I took this photo [M]onday evening (Ed. — January 23) about 5:30 pm. I thought it could be an EVENING MUG. Photo by Stan Kaplan
TONIGHT: HOPE 2012 Canvasses Streets Of NYC For Annual Homeless Census
A homeless person calls this bench on Ocean Parkway home. Photo by Boris ShekhmanAccording to 2011 statistics proffered by NYC Department of Homeless Services’ Homeless Outreach Population Estimate [https://a071-hope.nyc.gov/hope/statistics.aspx] (HOPE), there are 2,648 homeless individuals living on the streets of New York City.
Morning Mug: Seventies Sunset
A little humor from the photographer, noting Sheepsead Bites’ reluctant predilection for photos of sunsets by the bay: > Yes, another Bay sunset… > …but this one is from the mid-70s. And yes, that does, indeed, make all the difference in the world. Also, that it was shot with film,
Puzzle: A Timeless Classic
Sometimes I think how very weird and kind of scary it is that there is a gigantic fireball looking straight at us, and what’s stopping it from crashing into our planet and rendering us space cinders? Rod Serling, that’s what [http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/7102737]. Photo
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Marine Park’s Own Joe “JoePa” Paterno Remembered By Childhood Pals
A statue of Brooklyn's own Joe "JoePa" Paterno in front of Beaver Stadium, home to the Penn State Nittany Lions. Source: WikipediaCollege football fans all over the country mourned the passing of the Brooklyn-born Penn State titan, Joe “JoePa” Paterno, who succumbed to complications lung cancer
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Transportation Alternatives Takes This Month’s “Monthly Ride” To Emmons
The “transportation advocacy organization,” Transportation Alternatives [http://transalt.org/] — whose mission it is “to reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives” — will be bicycling over to our neck of the woods this weekend, and
61st Precinct Crime Statistics: 1/9 – 1/15/2012
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.
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Hate Crimes Task Force Continues Investigation As Mezuzah Thief Strikes Again
A 60th Precinct squad car at the scene of the mezuzah thefts, 3000 Ocean Parkway The seemingly never-ending scourge of anti-Semitic property defacement throughout Southern Brooklyn continues, as the vandal suspected of ripping seven mezuzot [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah] off the doorframes on the 15th, 18th and 19th
Morning Mug: Golden Sunset Over Kingsborough
Shot on campus around a month ago. Photo by Erica Sherman