Looks like I need to go back and take Mr. Figaro off of my list of manly barber shops [/barber-shops-of-sheepshead-bay-say-metrosexu-wha/]; we’ve lost another one to the metrosexuals. Damn, I loved this place, too. Mr. Figaro, the Singing Stylist, a.k.a Jerry May, a media darling during the 80s
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Photo by Elina Nulman.
State Senator Carl Kruger is attempting to prod the mayor to step in and protect Coney Island’s boardwalk businesses, which are being kicked out by the new amusement operator, Zamperla USA [/owner-weeps-patrons-reminisce-on-rubys-last-day/]. New York Post [http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/brooklyn/kruger_trying_to_save_boardwalk_tZXqYxyqhVPbV7HhFvy12N] reports:
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Six months after raising rates at city parking meters, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that he’s bumping up the price a second time. Parking rates will rise is January from 75 cents to $1 an hour in residential areas and from $2.50 to $3 an hour in commercial
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A new barber shop named Arie Express opened in what once was Councilman Michael Nelson’s district office [/councilman-nelson-finds-new-digs-on-voorhies-ave/], at 3810-A Nostrand Avenue. Our take? The most awaited sequel in cinema: You Don’t Mess With The Arie. Booyah. I went there. Thanks to Arthur Borko for the photo and
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We got this photo of the Rainbow Bandshell, circa 1930, from Michael Goldstein, the director of Alumni Relations at Kingsborough Community College. Don’t know what the Rainbow Bandshell was? Neither did I. But many of the area’s older residents remember hearing stories about the fabled shows at the
assaults
Source: NYDailyNews.comWorkers at Coney Island Hospital discovered slurs, epithets and curses carved into a woman’s body while prepping her for childbirth, and the woman said the culprit was her husband. Police arrested Ulubek Khakimov for using a house key to mutilate his wife, and threatening to kill her
In the battle to save local schools, the obvious question is “Will anyone listen?” Will the rallies matter? Are there enough people that care? Will surviving for one more year make a difference? I asked Councilman Lew Fidler at Sheepshead Bay High School’s rally last week if the school
boat removal
The final sailboat sunken in the bay during a wild wind- and rainstorm eight months ago was pulled out of the frigid waters Friday morning. The 20-foot sailboat was one of about a dozen vessels ripped from moorings and sent slamming into the bay’s bulkheads and footbridge [/breaking-boat-slams-into-ocean-ave-footbridge/] in
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I knew a zombie apocalypse would come eventually [/open-thread-mondays-ihate-ipod-idiots/], but I really thought it would be people rising from the dead. Apparently, in Sheepshead Bay, it’s sushi restaurants. Mikado Sushi at 1734 Sheepshead Bay Road very quietly closed its doors last week, and it seemed like overnight the sign
Good morning, all! No need for a series of roundabout statements to get to my point. It’s the same point Ray and I have made on Sheepshead Bites for the last two holiday seasons: Where’s the holiday lights on Sheepshead Bay Road? Where’s the music they used
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Several hundred students, teachers, parents and advocates packed into the front yard of Sheepshead Bay High School to protest the proposed closing of the school [/sheepshead-bay-hs-rallies-to-oppose-closure/]. The students marched and held signs, and also chanted support for the school after a cheerleading demonstration revved up the crowd. Councilman Lew Fidler,