Photo by Erica ShermanI get to meet a lot of great people while running Sheepshead Bites, and I’ve been blessed to hear thousands of stories from residents over the site’s five years. There are the ones about playing stick-ball in the streets, or walking barefoot from Plumb Beach
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Sheepshead Bay Yacht Club, site of a DRC that will close on Saturday.FEMA announced today that they will close all but one of Brooklyn’s Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC), with the last day being this Saturday, February 16. Here’s part of an e-mail blast they sent out today:
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Source: PolitickerEver since Councilman Domenic Recchia announced last month that he wouldn’t be seeking the borough president’s seat, the race to replace term-limited Marty Markowitz grew quiet. State Senator Eric Adams appeared to have it all locked up. Enter Bensonhurst native and attorney John Gangemi, a former councilman-at-large
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A rendering of Manhattan Beach’s Subway Cafe interior.Manhattan Beach will be the site of the borough’s first publicly-accessible Subway Cafe, a new upscale concept that blends together a sandwich shop and a coffee bar. Subway’s local franchisee signed a lease for 1613 Oriental Boulevard, the former
Takeshi Yamada, a taxidermist and one of Coney Island’s [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/09/twenty-two-local-artists-turn-their-studios-into-free-public-galleries-this-weekend/] more interesting local artists, is getting a huge spotlight as he is set to star in AMC’s new competitive taxidermy show, Immortalized [http://www.amctv.com/immortalized/videos/immortalized-end-of-the-world-pre-air-premiere] . Chances are you
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Location of the crime scene (Source: Google Maps)Police have established a crime scene after responding to a call for a body that was spotted in the waters near Caesar’s Bay, at 8973 Bay Parkway. The call first came in around 3:00 p.m. Harbor Units and Emergency
Hockenjos in front of the courthouse. (Source: NYDailyNews.com)YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A cop who falsely claimed that a Sheepshead Bay man tried to run him down in a car was sentenced to four days in prison – only one day more than his victim was locked up based
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The following is a press release from the offices of State Senator Marty Golden: State Senator Martin J. Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn), a member of the New York State Senate Bipartisan Task Force on Hurricane Sandy Recovery, will host a town hall meeting with residents affected by the storm, tomorrow, Wednesday,
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Source: Google MapsA call over the police scanner indicates that a tractor-trailer smashed into the Bay 8th Street overpass of the eastbound Belt Parkway. The call came over at approximately 6:40 p.m., spurring a response from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit and Highway Patrol. Two lanes of
Winter storm Nemo rolled through the region Friday night, covering Southern Brooklyn in about nine inches of snow. How did Bensonhurst react? Like a bunch of school kids, having fun with some snowballs. Reader Laura Whitman decided to mark the occasion, carving the storm’s name into a snow-covered car.
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Nemopocolypse came and went, and while it was historic snowfall for other areas, Sheepshead Bay saw just nine inches of snow – making it a fairly routine blizzard. Department of Sanitation did a fantastic job clearing the roadways quickly, and transit workers and management kept the system on track with little
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It’s like National Geographic up in here, yo. Photo by yours truly.