manhattan beach park
Traffic safety, property taxes and public transportation all came up at last night’s Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association meeting, but the issue that had the membership most fired up was charcoal grilling in the Manhattan Beach park. The group voted unanimously to send letters to city agencies demanding that barbecuing
civic association
Your problems, that is. Not the garbage itself. That would be rude, sir. The Sheepshead Bay / Plumb Beach Civic Association will be discussing issues of trash removal and other sanitation-related quality-of-life problems at their meeting tonight, and have invited officials from the Department of Sanitation to join the conversation and
junior high schools
UPDATE (10:54 a.m.): Here’s a bit from the FDNY: > IS 278, 1925 Stuart Street, Brooklyn. Today 4/5/11. The fire was reported to be on the roof. The school was evacuated. Dispatch time was 7:39 a.m.; the first unit on the scene was
sixteen trees triangle
Photo by Lisanne Anderson, who writes: > This in a triangle at Shore Parkway South and East 16th Street. The arranged stones are suggestive of a Druid monument. I have no explanation as to who placed them there and what they are supposed to represent, if anything. What Lisanne doesn’
Open Thread
Aw, look at that. It’s beautiful. It’s splendid. It’s amazing. It’s a t-shirt. And it’s your last chance to get one for a while. We’re sending out invoices today to all those who said they wanted a t-shirt, and plan to put the order
Investigators on the scene of one of Maksim Gelman's stabbings.Increased media reports of stabbings and other brutal attacks in Sheepshead Bay may have created the perception of a violent crime wave; now statistics from the 61st Precinct show that violent crime is unquestionably on the rise. Local
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.
A rendering of the proposed 8,000-seat venue, which critics have dubbed the "Potato Chip" amphitheater.Borough President Marty Markowitz’s Seaside Summer Concerts will no longer take place at Asser-Levy Park, marking a victory for opponents of his amphitheater plans. NY1 is reporting [http://brooklyn.ny1.com/
Just not soon enough. Photo by Elina Nulman.
community board meetings
City Councilman Michael Nelson is tired of hitting traffic a block away from his office, and now he’s demanding the Department of Transportation rewrite the rules and convert Voorhies Avenue into a one-way strip. Tired of getting bogged down on Voorhies Avenue between Ocean Avenue and Sheepshead Bay Road,
straphanger's campaign
Source: Ralph Hockens/FlickrThe train screeched to a halt somewhere after DeKalb Avenue and before the bridge. It was summertime, probably about five years ago, and though the air conditioning stayed on, it lost out to the sweltering heat of the tunnel and the stench of other riders. A baby
burglary
Gerritsen Beach’s Knights of Columbus post was burglarized this morning, with thieves stealing thousands of dollars raised for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, GerritsenBeach.net reports [http://www.gerritsenbeach.net/2011/03/31/breaking-burglary-at-knights-of-columbus/] . The Knights of Columbus Rev. E. J. Matthews #5989 (2882 Gerritsen Avenue) also had money taken