No joke: I really worried. Not just because it’s where I get my hair cut, but because Mr. Figaro Hair Cutting has been a Sheepshead Bay staple for decades [/barber-shops-of-sheepshead-bay-say-metrosexu-wha/]. If you remember, back in June, the ceiling of the establishment collapsed, [/ceiling-collapses-at-mr-figaros-barber-shop/] forcing a Department of Buildings Order
henry ehrhardt
Remember back in the beginning of August, when we issued the first edition of “Garbage Gazette” [/garbage-gazette-sheepshead-bay-rd-aug-2-2010/]? We urged you to contact local leaders and file complaints directly with the Department of Sanitation. Well, at least one reader, Philip R., listened. And it took nearly two months, but he got
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 command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Going to the city this weekend? If you were planning on taking the train, you better seek out an alternative route. The MTA is once again halting Q service between Stillwell Avenue and Prospect Park, and instead providing free shuttle buses. There will be two kinds of buses – one that
bus cuts
The following op-ed is by Allan Rosen, a Manhattan Beach resident and former Director of MTA/NYC Transit Bus Planning (1981). For a complete list of his contributions to Sheepshead Bites, which includes many articles about the bus cuts, MTA and DOT, click here [/tag/allan-rosen/]. The Department of Transportation
jorge martinez
Martinez's teen children - Source: NYDailyNews.comLoved ones of a bread deliveryman murdered by a mysterious sniper in Gravesend gathered yesterday for his wake, and demanded answers in the senseless slaying. “They took one of the greatest things from us,” said the victim’s 16-year-old daughter [http://www.
[/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/noParking21.jpg](Click to enlarge)I had to ask a lot of people if this sign made any sense. The consenus? Not one bit. “No Parking – Other Times” is meaningless without other signs around with times on them. There were none to be found near the
Photos by Arthur Borko [/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/tmobile_UA.jpg]The final tenant in the newly constructed shopping strip by the United Artists theater revealed itself. A T-Mobile authorized dealer is opening doors to customers of the “plaza” on Knapp Street between Harkness Avenue and Shore Parkway. That means
Courtesy of NYS SenateState Senator Carl Kruger has launched a fresh salvo in the battle to collect taxes from tobacco sales on Native American reservations, this time firing off a letter [http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article183988.ece]to a judge presiding over a case in which the legality of
racism
[/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mosque1.jpg]2812 Voorhies AvenueWe couldn’t make it down to Sunday’s book bag giveaway [/mosque-backers-gives-out-free-book-bags-to-students/], organized by the backers of the Voorhies Avenue mosque, the Muslim American Society. But, though other news outlets like News12 are saying all went well, Brooklyn Paper is reporting
ann odriscoll
Captain Anne O’Driscoll, former president of the Sheepshead Bay Fishing Fleet Association, passed away at 53 years of age from cancer-related complications on Monday, September 6. Steve Barrison, friend of O’Driscoll and president of Bay Improvement Group, sent us the following letter yesterday: > It is with great
I knew Sheepshead Bay’s decorative street lamps were good for something! Photo by nolastname.