Morning Mug: St. Marks On Film
We rarely get our hands on photos shot with film anymore, but Erica Sherman captured this with Kodak B&W Tri-X film and a Yashica Electro 35 Rangefinder camera. Badass, no?
Ned Berke
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Leaking Sewage Pipe Spurs Army Corps Repairs
Photo by Michael ComeauThe Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up to take on an 18-month long project to repair and improve sewage outfall pipes at the mouth of Sheepshead Bay, but first they’re looking for your input. The Department of Environmental Protection is coordinating with the Corps on
Venezia Pizzeria Now Open Near United Artists
Photo by Arthur BorkoVenezia Pizzeria at 2771 Knapp Street is now open. You can call them at (718) 676-0800. Word is there’s a flyer going around offering a free slice of pizza.
Open Thread Mondays: What's On Your Block?
I’m handing out an assignment for today’s open thread: tell us what’s wrong on your block. It could be an annoying pot hole, or a sign that fell down. It could be something bigger. Or smaller. But we can all think of something that needs improvement on
Morning Mug: Majestic Old Trees
Photo by Lisanne Anderson. She writes: > The trees in the photo were planted in 1938 when the Belt Parkway was built. Most of the turn triangles on Shore Parkway were paved with cobblestones. For some reason this one wasn’t. A lot of trees along the Belt have been
Education Dept. Can’t Leave Marine Park J.H.S. Alone
Source: schools.nyc.govJust as the city can’t help its addiction to shuttering schools all across the five boroughs and turning them into charter schools, it also can’t stop imposing its will on Marine Park Junior High School (I.S. 278). On the heels of a successful battle
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Our Brand New Train Platforms… Vandalized
Neck Road subway platform, photo taken this morning by BrooklynQ.
61st Precinct Crime Statistics: 1/3 – 1/9/2011
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.
Morning Mug: The Road This Morning
Photo by Arthur Borko.
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St. Marks Employs Tech To Fund Basketball Program
The St. Mark Catholic School (2602 East 19th Street) has launched an online store to bring in some bucks for the basketball program, hoping to reach their goal of $3,000 in the coming weeks. The website, which you can check out here [http://www.efundraisingonline.com/StMarkSportsAssociation], sells reduced
Charles Hynes
Video: Southern Brooklyn Civics Feel Abandoned By City
Southern Brooklyn’s civic associations feel our communities are neglected by the city, but at last night’s Town Hall meeting, a subtle, but persistent, fact became clear: the mechanism to change that is emerging. The hour-and-a-half long meeting was brought together by the Manhattan Beach Community Group in collaboration
Puzzle: It Looked Like This, Briefly…
… before the taggers hit it up. Photo by Haruko16 via Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/haruko16/5282014900/in/photostream/]