The scene of an April 2011 accident on Bedford Avenue and Emmons Avenue. Community Board 15 sent a request to the Department of Transportation yesterday, seeking a left turn signal and daylighting at the accident-prone intersection of Emmons Avenue and Bedford Avenue. The corner, as we reported yesterday [/locals-say-emmons-ave-bedford-ave-intersection-need-better-traffic-safety-controls/] , is
The same can on Monday.GARBAGE GAZETTE [/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/garbage2.jpg]: As we promised yesterday, we’re keeping an eye on a newly-placed public trash bin [/its-back-return-of-east-14th-street-trash-bin-gives-chance-to-observe-garbage-theory/] that reappeared after more than two years [/new-can-here-comes-trash-city/] at Avenue Z and East 14th Street. This can was last emptied Friday
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In a scathing editorial published on their website [http://www.manhattanbeachbrooklyn.org/?p=1470] yesterday, the Manhattan Beach Community Group blasted the Parks Department’s $125,000 feasibility study for the Manhattan Beach bathhouse project [/manhattan-beach-bathhouse-brooklyn/] as a waste of money, and said Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, who funded the study,
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Following another car accident at the intersection of Emmons Avenue and Bedford Avenue, neighbors are renewing their calls for improved traffic safety measures before someone loses their life. On Sunday, September 2, two cars collided as an eastbound vehicle traveling on Emmons Avenue sought to turn up Bedford Avenue, and
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A number of local cultural organizations have teamed up to produce an evening of movies that show the “shared past and common future” of Turkish and Russian-Jewish cultures, two ethnic groups that have planted deep roots in our community. All the information is in the flier below.
A two-car collision occurred on East 19th Street and Avenue W at around noon today, resulting in one very messed up Lexus. Nolastname provided the photos and the following tip: > the Black Lexus was traveling north on e19, The buick was traveling west on W. Buick was traveling fast
GARBAGE GAZETTE [/tag/garbage-gazette/]: As of last week, a new public garbage can sits on the northeast corner of Avenue Z and East 14th Street – and its presence gives us a new opportunity to study a budding theory about neighborhood litter. It’s not the first time the corner has
Labor Day. That’s supposed to be a day of labor, right? Well for us at Sheepshead Bites it is, so we’re in the office working. But we’re not posting much today; instead we’re working on content for the upcoming few weeks. So, while we’re sweating
The New York City Parks Department revealed the results of a three-year feasibility study, determining new potential uses for the Manhattan Beach bathhouse, a dilapidated Parks building that has been closed to the public for half a century. The report, commissioned three years ago with a $125,000 budget allocation
The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association invites residents to attend their next meeting on Monday, September 10, at 8:00 p.m. at Public School 195, 131 Irwin Street between Shore Boulevard and Oriental Avenue. The group is hosting a “meet and greet” with certain political candidates, including Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz,
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SHEEPSHEAD BITES EXCLUSIVE: When a local fruit and vegetable market on East 16th Street near Avenue Z closed up shop last year [/confirmed-marshalls-coming-to-sheepshead-bay/], neighbors were relieved, saying the location often left smelly, rotting garbage at the curb. But they never imagined that the area would become the site of an
After nearly five days of silence since Sheepshead Bites first reported on the mailing of thousands of campaign fliers in which Assembly candidate Ben Akselrod claimed crime is up in the “negrohood,” [/in-flubbed-campaign-lit-assembly-candidate-says-crime-is-up-in-the-negrohood/] the candidate behind the mailer has issued an apology calling the comment a “typo.” Akselrod sent out