18th ave feast
Sometimes in news reporting you get some bad information, and despite your best efforts, it never becomes clear that it’s bad until it has been published. Turns out that was the case with the 18th Avenue Feast in Bensonhurst – and I suppose we should’ve known better than to
cafe l'azur
Coming soon to 2612 East 14th Street: Sagdiana Restaurant. A culinary feast of Uzbek, Caucasian, Russian and French cousins. I, personally, don’t have any French cousins that I know of, but I sure do hope that, if I do, Sagdiana hunts them down, kills them, and serves them to
A concerned reader called in today to tell us that basements all over the neighborhood are flooding, as the rains have fully saturated the soil around people’s homes. That reader is right. If you haven’t thought to do it yet, remember to head down to your home’s
allstate insurance
The Allstate storefront at 1670 Sheepshead Bay Road has closed down, and new tenants are already moving in. One worker who was trafficking items from his car into the store told us that it would be a computer repair shop. Another who we spoke to on a different day said
developments
1501 Sheepshead Bay RoadA proposed nine-story development may be nixed as the site goes up for sale, giving a sign of hope to opponents who were outraged that the plan’s 101 parking garage would create a traffic nightmare for the area. For sale signs went up at 1501 Sheepshead
The date is getting closer. Sheepshead Bites Night at MCU Park (Brooklyn Cyclones stadium) is this Friday, August 19! Find out more about the event [http://bit.ly/n2Smzv] and buy your discounted field box tickets now using the promo code “BITES.” [http://ev6.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/EVExecMacro?linkID=
cars
Reader Michael S. wrote in to tell us about a number of car break-ins that occurred overnight, around Shore Parkway and Bedford Avenue. The scene sounds similar to that of April 2010, when dozens of cars were broken into [/dozens-of-cars-vandalized-in-middle-of-night/] in one night by a team of thieves. Here’s
I have nothing to say about this. > A shameless Bonnie and Clyde team clipped a bunch of teddy bear centerpieces Friday from a sacred circumcision ceremony hosted by a Brooklyn city councilman, police said. > The daring theft came following the religious ceremony, called a bris, on Avenue T
holocaust survivors
The first of 19 cases pending against a fraud ring that scammed millions of dollars from a Holocaust survivors fund has ended with the defendant receiving a year in prison [http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=233051] and an order to pay back $105,000. Polina Anoshina,
A booth at the 18th Avenue Feast in 2009 (Source:Whiskeygonebad/Flickr)(UPDATE [8/17/11]: Turns out the feast will be a full 10-day event. The original confusion was due to a typo on an event calendar that had us – and some city officials – confused. Check out this update
subway fires
Firefighters and transit workers teamed up to battle a blaze that consumed a signal room and stretch of tracks at West 8th Street – New York Aquarium F and Q station on Friday evening, taking about three hours to squash the flames. Tipster Elina N. sent in the above video taken
Bedford Avenue and Emmons Avenue was home to a three car accident at around 9:00 a.m. today. It’s unclear what caused the accident, but tipster Andrey G. said the corner is a constant problem in the neighborhood: > I would imagine that today’s accident follows the