The following is a press release from the office of Borough President Marty Markowitz: On Wednesday, November 16, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined Turkish Cultural Center Brooklyn and other supporting organizations at Brooklyn Borough Hall to distribute more than 700 pounds of packaged beef to food pantries and soup
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Click to enlargeLongtime readers of Sheepshead Bites should know that I love – LOVE! – the sort of marketing that relies almost exclusively on superlatives, especially when the words used stand in stark contrast to reality. Take, for example, the “most luxurious day care center [/my-baby-wears-prada/]” that, unfortunately, never bothered with the
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Vandals hit up the Avenue J train station early Wednesday morning, spray painting an “ew” onto the station’s sign to read Avenue Jew. Now representatives of the heavily Orthodox Jewish area are condemning the graffiti and locals are wondering if it’s connected to last week’s hate-crime-related torching
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Source: Brooklyn DA's officeA phony stock broker working out of his Sheepshead Bay apartment was indicted on charges of conning clients out of more than $200,000, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced today. Boris Shteyngart, 24, was running his securities scam from his home at 3311
From our friends at the Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association: The Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association will meet on Thursday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. at the King’s Chapel, Quentin Road and East 27 Street. Neighborhood diet and nutrition specialist Jeannette Manusco will discuss holiday eating habits, and may even comment on
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The woman who was fatally stabbed a few feet away from her apartment on Homecrest Avenue [/woman-stabbed-on-homecrest-avenue-possibly-fatal/], leaving a 12-foot trail of blood, was seen arguing with a man who was following her, a police source told the New York Post [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_
A reader sent in the above photograph, showing a white Lincoln Town Car that smashed into the deli at 2124 Gravesend Neck Road last night. The accident happened just before 8:00 p.m. at the intersection of East 22nd Street. Fire department and EMT responded to the scene. It’
Bedford Avenue, near Avenue V (Source: Google Maps)A man was found shot in the head in his basement yesterday afternoon on Bedford Avenue near Avenue V, and police continue to investigate the circumstances around the incident. The victim’s wife made the discovery after returning from an errand her
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The reader wouldn't let us post a photo. So I made one. Perty, perty birdie...A reader wrote in: > We found a domesticated-type bird in the vicinity of Knapp Street, near the 7-11. It landed on our front stoop and we didn’t feel comfortable releasing it
The interwebs is all ablaze this morning, after the city surprised Occupy Wall Street protesters with a late-night eviction from Zucotti Park and the arrest of about 200 people [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?hp] . The park served as the birthplace for a movement that
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We received the following e-mail last night: > I was the victim of a hit and run accident on Ocean Parkway, at the intersection of Bay Parkway around 1 pm on Monday, November 7th. I was not seriously hurt, though I was bleeding pretty badly from a minor scalp injury
UPDATE (12:40 p.m.): A police source has confirmed that the woman died from her injuries. The source would not indicate whether they had a suspect, saying only that the investigation is ongoing. Original post (apologies for the out-of-sequence updates): We found the following tip (and above photo) from