homecrest playground
A black Lexus IS 350 flipped over on Shore Parkway near Homecrest Avenue around 3:00 p.m. today, causing traffic backups as crews worked to clear the road. An officer on the scene told our tipster that the car sped through a stop sign and lost control. To avoid
bay currents
A reader sent in these photos, with the following note: > These are pix of the melted Courier Life box on the corner of East 36 Street and Quentin Road in Marine Park. It was a double-decker news box – Kings Courier on the top and Brooklyn Family on the bottom
Don’t you just love those streets with no Alternate Side Parking regulations? Theoretically, you could leave your car there for months – maybe even years – and so long as no one complains you won’t get a ticket, right? Well, sort of. It’s technically illegal. But even complaining to
apartment building
Source: News12A 98-year-old woman was killed and her son left in critical condition by an apartment fire on Friday night [http://news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=268497&position=1&news_type=news] . The fire broke out at around 10:00 p.m. on December 10, raging for 40
Anyone have any good suggestions for local holiday shopping? Share it here!
1001 nights
We’re a little late on this one, as the business has actually been open for at least a month. 1001 Nights is a restaurant in, what would seem to me, the least desired location in Sheepshead Bay. It’s at 35 Neptune Avenue, wedged between Oakley’s Car Wash
Chanukah
Nearly 2,000 people turned out for this year’s Chanukah Extravaganza at the Kings Bay YM-YWHA (3495 Nostrand Avenue), celebrating the holiday with food, performances, crafts and good company. Kids made menorah mosaics, Chanukah sand art, jewelry and greeting cards to share with friends and family. Even the littlest
luxury
In the back of my head, I keep an ever-growing list of marketing terms that appears to work on Eastern Europeans. These are terms you’ve seen proliferating on signs, billboards, newspaper ads and just about everywhere else since the neighborhood’s demographics shifted over the past two decades. They’
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.
The Brooklyn Streetcar Artists Group, a coalition of artists from Southern Brooklyn, is unveiling a new art installation tonight at Coney Island Hospital. The exhibition features more than 40 pieces from 22 artists in the second floor hallway-gallery. There will also be a presentation and Q & A session with
car fires
Like moths to light, Sheepshead Bites’ readers are drawn to car fires. We received a whole slew of photos and phone calls from readers who passed by a car that burst into flames on Ocean Avenue near Avenue Y. One reader approached the driver – well after the fire was put
flea markets
The United Methodist Church of Sheepshead Bay (3087 Ocean Avenue) is holding a “giant” flea market this Saturday, December 11. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., vendors will pack into two floors of the historic church to sell “gifts and bargains for one and all.” For more information,