Source: Google MapsWe received word that Kings Bay Chemist Pharmacy at 3610 Nostrand Avenue was robbed at gunpoint just minutes ago. An employee at a neighboring business writes: > A customer just came in all shaken up saying she was in the pharmacy on nostrand and ave w and it
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This is not an actual photo of the scam artist. Promise.Police thought they had the perp earlier this week in a con-artist case spanning several months, but after further investigation it turned out that it wasn’t their guy. That means the scam artist may still be in the
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Tipster ShadowLock drove past this mess at around 12:00 p.m. We’re trying to figure out what happened, but he said “it looks awful.” Got any information? Let us know in the comments section. UPDATE: Just received two more photos from another reader. Man, we’ve got the
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Photo by… me. What? I’m allowed to have a photo in the Morning Mug from time to time, too. Sheesh.
Can you believe it? This is what we looked like when we first launched.Happy birthday to us! On this day in 2008, Sheepshead Bites published its first post [/about-sheepshead-bites/], introducing to the world a little corner of the interwebs for Sheepshead Bay residents to gather, discuss, learn and, eventually,
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Awesome advertising opportunities abound.BayFest 2011 is just around the corner, and with the Seaside Concert Series potentially cancelled [/seaside-concerts-may-vacate-asser-levy-park/], and the Siren Fest moving to Jerk-hattan [/while-our-concerts-gently-weep-siren-fest-yanked-from-coney/], BayFest could be poised to be the premiere music festival in Southern Brooklyn this year! Organizers have followed through with their plans
We just got these photos in from tipster Lenny M. showing a flipped SUV on Shore Boulevard, just off of Ocean Avenue. The SUV appears to have been heading west, but we’re not sure what made it lose control and slam into the parked car. It’s also not
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There has been a lot of construction going on along Sheepshead Bay Road these past few months. We’re not talking about the private stuff, like the hulking cinder block mess [/70-foot-building-on-sheepshead-bay-road-takes-shape/] in the footprint of the old Bay News building; we’re talking about city projects. The streets were
99 Cent Stores
Workers have been gutting the storefront at 1506 Sheepshead Bay Road for more than a week, leaving the shell of the former 99 Cent Century that shuttered [/99-cent-century-going-out-of-business/] back in January. We still have no idea what’s going in there, but contractors have installed a new door and glass
Photo by Lisanne Anderson, who writes, “A different spin on the tree removal on East 15th Street [/mta-clearing-east-15th-lot-of-garbage-sick-trees/]. While the removal of a number of trees was quite unfortunate, it does provide a dramatic for a sunset.”
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Cool picture, right? I thought so, too. The United Methodist Church of Sheepshead Bay (3087 Ocean Avenue), as previously reported [/methodist-church-steeples-saved-for-now/], has swapped contractors and gone forward with a temporarily plan to stabilize the steeples. They began putting in the supports on April 29, and now a series of steel