This ditch at Voorhies Avenue and Sheepshead Bay Road is a danger to motorists and pedestrians, but the city's independent contractors are in no rush to repair it.Attention drivers! Nevermind those iPod-wearing pedestrians, law-skirting bikers and cellphone-wielding motorists – you’ve got another thing to worry about when
Source: GerritsenBeach.netThe property at 3070 Avenue U, at the corner of Bragg Street, has been sold to a real estate investment trust for $11 million – but, local druggies, don’t fret; it’s likely to remain a Walgreens. According to PropertyShark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/nyc/Reports2/showsection.
National Night Out
The 61st Precinct (2575 Coney Island Avenue) joined citizens, other law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from more than 15,000 communities across all 50 states in the National Night Out celebrations on Tuesday, August 2. Hundreds of people packed into the lot behind the
Rasputin (2670 Coney Island Avenue) co-owner Michael Levitis was sentenced to three years probation and fined $15,000 for lying to FBI agents about a bribe intended for State Senator Carl Kruger [/kruger-subject-of-corruption-investigation/].Levitis was arrested last summer [/kruger-subject-of-corruption-investigation/] for his alleged role as an intermediary between business owners wanting
Careful driving out there. The rain and winds are apparently taking their toll on our already sick trees. The one above toppled over at Corbin Place and Brighton 12th Street.
The scaffolding around 1733 Sheepshead Bay Road, the former Bay News / Courier-Life headquarters, has been removed, giving us nosy neighbors a better idea of what the road’s newest monolith is going to look like at street level. First impressions? The glass-and-steel looking beast has a modern feel, amplified more-so
mid-summer festival
From State Senator Marty Golden’s office: > Senator Marty Golden Invites You to the 3rd Annual Mid Summer Festival > Saturday, August 6th & Sunday, August 7th 11am – 7pm > Alive N Kickin with the hit song “Tighter and Tighter” will perform Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 4 p.
Firefighters responded to a Sanitation Department truck that had burst into flames at around 7:00 a.m. today, on Avenue V and East 29th Street. As always, Sheepshead Bites had a reader there recording video in my most favorite video format: vertical. Anyway, the reader – ShadowLock – writes: > As
bay 20th st
Do you recognize the woman in the sketch above? She is the victim of an unsolved murder, her body having been found on July 17 in the waters by Shore Parkway and Bay 20th Street, near Caesar’s Bay. NYPD released the sketch yesterday, according to Bensonhurst Bean, and they’
The above wild bird was found struggling in the muck of Sheepshead Bay by an unnamed neighbor, and he went through some extraordinary means to rescue it. Here’s the account from our tipster, Emily B.: > I’m a veterinary technician at the Manhattan Beach Animal Clinic, and a
Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo asks Mayor Michael Bloomberg a question about road repair.The Brighton Beach Business Improvement District hosted an unprecedented visit by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and top brass from nearly two dozen city agencies on Thursday, marking a stride forward in the relationship between the government
Source: Darny via FlickrIf you’ve noticed a heap o’ work being done around the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, it’s because the one-time title-holder of longest suspension bridge in the world [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazano-Narrows_Bridge] is getting a few new coats of paint. According to Courier Life [http: