galleries
Just one of the 133 pieces that will appear in the show.There are those kids who can color inside the lines, and then there are the prodigious children of Bensonhurst’s IrArt Studio. The youngsters, pupils of the award-winning artist and IrArt founder Irina Zavyalova, created 133 fine art
ezra usa
Members of the Russian-Jewish youth movement EZRA USA @ Brooklyn [http://ny.ezraworld.org/about-ezra-ezra-usa-today/snifim-ezra-usa/ezra-usa-brooklyn.html] will be hosting their annual commemoration of Yom Ha’Shoah — Holocaust Memorial Day — in remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony, May 1 at 3 p.m. inside
east 13th st
Loved ones of the mother and daughter nurses stabbed to death [/mother-daughter-stabbed-to-death-on-east-13th-street/] at 2299 East 13 thStreet are turning to the Facebook community for help in nabbing Russian national Nikolai Rakossi [/photo-east-13th-street-double-stabbing-suspect-nikolai-rakossi/], the suspect accused of the grizzly double homicide. According to a report by News 12 Brooklyn [http://www.
While so many popular [/halikarnas-closed-building-for-sale/] commercial enterprises [/bay-news-building-sold/] in Sheepshead Bay [/99-cent-century-going-out-of-business/] seem to be [/nostrands-dee-dee-going-out-of-business/] going belly up [/marketeer-stops-presses-for-good/], one civic group is gearing up to celebrate the 20 thanniversary of its annual waterfront festival — touted as Brooklyn’s biggest — and organizers need your help. There will be a
bicycle accidents
Intersection of West 9th Street and Avenue T. Source: Google MapsThere is no shortage of [/bicyclist-hit-on-ocean-and-voorhies-avenues/] tragic reminders [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_son_of_brooklyn_brewery_owner_27_killed_-1.html] about how dangerous [http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/630197--woman-arrested-in-cyclist-door-ing-kill] reckless bicycling [http:
elderly
The New York Post has reported that an 83-year-old man is in critical condition after he “apparently jumped out of a window [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/elderly_jumper_9mlfD6Cg2fHLROstn4jY1L#ixzz1KYPEGlnn] .” While the exact cause is unknown, the senior allegedly defenestrated himself a few minutes after midnight,
A full agenda is on tap for the Sheepshead Bay-Plumb Beach Civic Association’s next meeting, May 3, 7:30 p.m. at its new location, inside the Palm Beach Home for Adults, 2900 Bragg Street just off of Emmons Avenue. Members of the Army Corps of Engineers will be
dentists
Hooray for healthy teeth! Oral cancer causes more than 8,000 American deaths per year — “killing roughly one person per hour, 24 hours per day” — according to [http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/index.htm] the Oral Cancer Center Foundation. Luckily for us, the Russian American Dental Association, or RADA, is
turkish cultural center
Manti. (Source: Camera on autopilot/Flickr)Ever sit in Anatolian Gyro on Sheepshead Bay Road [/anatolian-gyro-mixed-appetizers-the-bite/] (and who among us hasn’t?), happily munching on a refreshing cornucopia of humus, stuffed grape leaves, baba ghanoush, tabule, or one of their succulent lamb or chicken kebabs, and think to yourself, “Gee,
sol kaiser
With the urgent need for blood in the New York Blood Center [http://www.nybloodcenter.org/index.jsp] (NYBC) always a constant, anyone who donates a measure of their life force is doing a big mitzvah. But if you donate, then donate some more, and then donate even more — going
Deno's Wonder Wheel
Zoltar in Coney Island (Source: Deno's Wonder Wheel Park)As a diminutive Brooklynite whose posterior is a little too close to the ground for my liking, I could not have been more ecstatic to learn that a Zoltar Speaks fortune telling machine [http://www.zoltarmachine.com/] — the exact
B line
Lisanne Anderson, “knowledgeable of the city’s miscellanea as she is [/morning-mug-our-little-stonehenge/],” and frequent photo contributor to Sheepshead Bites, submitted this Technicolor gem of the fabled “Steps to Nowhere” outside the Neck Road and East 16 thStreet station. The “Steps to Nowhere,” while just that — a no longer operational facet