He must be 12′-2″. How does this happen [/anyone-else-getting-tired-of-seeing-this/]… so [/whack-an-overpass-has-had-enough/]… damn [/another-one-hits-the-rust/]… often [/truck-vs-overpass-overpass-wins/]? UPDATE: It turns out the truck ripped into a pipe or power line under the overpass, tearing it loose. The yellow tape you see in the above picture shows the sidewalk closed off. FDNY
This shouldn’t be hard. Photo by Anna Svirskaia. Got a photo you’d like to share with neighbors? Send it to nberke [at] sheepsheadbites [dot] com [nberke@sheepsheadbites.com]!
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Pictured (L-R): Assemblyman Cymbrowitz, Esther Tashker, JCCGCI’s Director of Home Delivered Meals, Michael Shabayev, Roman Gershtorin and JCCGCI’s Executive Director Rabbi Moshe Wiener.Amidst all the moaning and groaning [/snowtastrophe-2010-sheepshead-bay-road-in-photos/] after the December 26 blizzard paralyzed the city, one heroic story fell under the media’s radar. Two
For a while there, Sheepshead Bites was known for two things (aside from excellent community reporting!): photos of shopping carts [/tag/shopping-carts/] and photos of garbage [/tag/garbage/]. We killed the shopping cart series several months ago. As for the garbage, our whining got a lot of attention from the
The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association has had a sit down with the Department of Transportation, claiming to have won new traffic controls within the community. The plans will be unveiled at tonight’s MBNA meeting at 8:0o p.m. in the auditorium of P.S. 195 (131 Irwin Street)
As you already know, the open thread used to run at 7 a.m. every Monday. Now we have the Morning Mug, which is the first post of every day. I’m reluctant to follow that up with a non-news post like the open thread, so I usually make the
I always wondered about this house. Now I don’t need to wonder so much, thanks to Lisanne, who shot the above photograph and wrote, “This house on East 13th Street north of Avenue Y used to be a shoe repair shop. Over the years it was opened less and
The New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation, announced yesterday that Alternate Side Parking Regulations will resume citywide Monday, February 7, 2011, to facilitate street cleaning and snow clearing operations. Fantastic, right? I bet you all couldn’t wait for the return of Alternate
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Wow. Why so phallic?It’s February, the groundhogs are out, the snow is on the ground, and that can only mean one thing: Super Bowl Sunday is here. Sure, neither the Jets, Giants, nor even the Saints (who?) made it this year. But drown away the tears and have
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Source: BP's officeBorough President Marty Markowitz wowed the borough yesterday with his annual State of the Borough Address. Okay, maybe “wowed” isn’t the right word. He did, however, garner a lot of media attention for riding into the event on a bike. Hah! That Marty. He kills
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Photo by Lenny M.That guy is way too happy to be working on cervices. I mean, sure, most men find a cervix to be a wonderful thing. All us guys hang out at the bar and talk about how great the cervices in our lives are… but… Christ. I
Tropp's home (Source: BrooklynPaper.com)A Manhattan Beach neighbor owes more than $100,000 to the city for construction violations on his sprawling home, and now members of Manhattan Beach Community Group are saying the culprit is the former zoning chair of rival civic, Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association.