This photo comes in from PayPaul [http://www.flickr.com/photos/paypaul/], who wrote, “Spring has sprung in Sheepshead Bay. I took these beauties on Avenue V and 12th Street.” Well, we’re not quite as optimistic about spring being here just yet. But we are enjoying the much-improved weather.
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Eva Spa on Sheepshead Bay Road [/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/artemida.jpg] Artemida Wedding Gallery (Click to enlarge)Eva Spa is just about ready to open at 1409 Sheepshead Bay Road, and it looks like it’s shooting to be a high-end manicure-pedicure joint, with nice, big windows so pedestrians
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Photo by Stan KaplanThe photo above is one of three parked cars struck by a speeding driver Sunday evening in an accident that has locals saying, “We told you so.” Around 8:00 p.m., a car speeding westbound on Shore Boulevard lost control near the curve between Exeter Street
Inside one of the abandoned hangers at Floyd Bennett Field, the tall grass grows indoors. Once New York City’s first municipal airport, nature has been reclaiming the site while activists and planners squabble over its future [/feds-join-the-gateway-makeover-party/]. Photo by Robert Fernandez.
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Kostoff took photos of this and many other illegally parked cars. Traffic agents told her that, somehow, this wasn't a bus stop.College students descended on Manhattan Beach this morning, as Kingsborough Community College kicked off the spring semester. And neighbors are not pleased. It’s not at
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Councilman Lew Fidler slammed an article suggesting that Walmart replace the soon-to-shutter Pathmark on Nostrand Avenue [/pathmark-to-close-100-workers-face-job-loss/] as “stupid,” and praised NYPD efforts to catch the murderous Maksim Gelman, during remarks to Community Board 15 last Tuesday. The board meeting took place the day after Fidler – alongside Congressman Anthony Weiner,
These open threads are funny things. I mostly keep them short, due to either laziness or deadlines, and hope I have the time and inspiration next week to make one how I’d really like it to be. In an ideal world, they would all be perfectly crafted essays, my
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Here’s a shot of the new Coney Island roller coaster, which we assume is the Soaring Eagle, at the upcoming Zamperla “Scream Zone” park. The Soaring Eagle is one of two new coasters to sit on Zamperla’s newest digs. It’s described by the company as a flying
Photo by nolastname.
Courtesy of Miramar Yacht ClubWe began getting e-mails Wednesday night about a great big seal lazily basking in the sun on the docks of the Miramar Yacht Club [http://www.miramaryc.com/]. The seal, about five feet long, had been there all day, and didn’t seem the slightest bit
Click to enlargeYou’ll note Maksim Gelman’s four murders figure into this week’s stat sheet. CompStat 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
A photo of the Ocean Avenue Bridge during the overnight snows Monday morning. Photo by Phil/Knightmare6. [http://www.knightmare6.com]