morning
Emailed to us with the following note: > [D]o not forget to pray to Our Lady of the Litterbox. Snapped that pic with my camera phone on W and 24th. Hoping it starts a neighborhood trend. A neighborhood trend of people cleaning up after their furry companions? Yes, please.
Hard to believe that, in a little more than a month, it’ll be the one year anniversary of that crummy blizzard [/snowtastrophe-2010-sheepshead-bay-road-in-photos/], which paralyzed the city [/photos-blizzard-plagues-all-corners-of-sheepshead-bay/]. Photo by Yuriy Semenov
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.
book
Source: CDRC MissoulaIf you are an anti-Kindle, anti-Nook, hardcover- and paperback-loving purist like me, whose leg twitches in delight at the musty smell of old, worn, dog-eared pages, then you will run, not walk, to the Fall Book Sale being sponsored by the Friends of Brooklyn Public Library, Gerritsen Beach
Sheepshead Bites’ Business Manager Robert Fernandez found these berries on the corner of Avenue Y and East 15th Street and, with a little research on the interwebs, I learned that they are an invasive species of plant called “ Ampelopsis brevipedunculata [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelopsis_brevipedunculata],” otherwise known as
jamaica bay task force
The Jamaica Bay Task Force will meet tonight, November 17, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center [http://nyharborparks.org/visit/jaba.html], Crossbay Boulevard in Broad Channel, Queens. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion about the scheduled marsh
Obviously, my well of quasi-creative titles has run dry. So sue me. Photo by Boris Shekhman
Sheepshead Bites represents at last year's BayFest. Photo by Erica ShermanThe Bay Improvement Group (BIG) and its president, Steve Barrison… want YOU to join them at 8:00 p.m., November 16 for a volunteer meeting to help organize BayFest 2012 (slated for May 20, 2012). The planning
> FOG > THE FOG comes on little cat feet. > It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. > — Carl Sandburg An unusually dense blanket of fog envelops the Verrazano Bridge Photo by Alex Kuznetsov
coat
If this year’s winter was anything like last year’s (Oy! Please, let it not be… ), and the economy continues to suck pond water, then it’s a pretty safe bet that some of our less fortunate members of humanity will need a winter coat to help keep them
Photo by ShadowLock
A nice show of patriotism on Haring Street between Avenues T and U. Photo by John Hampton