And I quote: > I heard about your blog/website from a friend of mine and wanted to share the picture I took this past Sunday morning. I watched the sunrise from the footbridge off of Shore Blvd, between Dover and Exeter after a long night of partying and it
More than a month and a half after an SUV ripped through the front wall and counter of the CVS Drugstore on Sheepshead Bay Road [/holy-shnikes-car-slams-through-cvs-storefront/], repairs are finally being made to the storefront. A worker on the scene said the windows and wall should be completed by the end
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Last July, when we reported that the development on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Avenue Z was nearly complete [/building-on-ocean-ave-and-z-almost-complete/] , a couple of commenters began laying into this project and many others along Ocean Avenue. One called these developments “nondos,” and they all pointed out that the area’s
ObermanWe wanted to check in with Igor Oberman, the Russian-American attorney who announced in April that he’d be running against State Senator Carl Kruger [/attorney-jumps-into-race-against-kruger/]. So when we reached out to him late last week, we were disappointed to receive a note over the weekend saying, “I have dropped
A fire at a grocery store and residence broke out in Brighton Beach early this morning. FDNY trucks arrived at Neptune Avenue and Brighton 5th Street around 6:00 a.m. to put out the flames. A reader, who sent these photos, said it looked like the fire started in
An accident on the eastbound side of the Belt Parkway is causing heavy delays. The reader that sent in the above photo of the accident near the end of the East 14th Street entrance ramp said it appeared minor, but was enough to throttle movement on the parkway.
Over on this week’s open thread [/open-thread-mondays-q-a/], Supafly10579 asked how to keep the bottle collectors out of her yard. This, of course, spurred a discussion that’s come up a few times before in the comments – i.e. readers think these people are a nuisance. Someone linked to the
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Irina Krush - Source: BrooklynEagle.comIrina Krush of Sheepshead Bay won her third United States Women’s Chess Championship last Monday, skirting past competitors by just half a point. The 26-year-old first made history in 1998, when she won the title at just 14 years old. She took the top
While not really a postcard, I’m sticking this in with our new “Postcard” series [/tag/postcard/], which saves images of the Sheepshead Bay-area that briefly appear on sites like eBay, never to be seen again. The above is a 130-year-old wood engraving that’s been bevel-matted. It comes from
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[/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mosque1.jpg]Site of the proposed Sheepshead Bay mosqueAfter Brooklyn Tea Party activists failed to get a response from Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz regarding the Sheepshead Bay mosque [/bk-tea-party-urges-cymbrowitz-to-oppose-mosque/] – primarily because it’s not in his district – the group fired off another open letter. This time their
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Orgies are nothing new on Plumb Beach, according to local lore. But, while residents may complain about the anonymous romps, group sex has been going on there for millions of years. Horseshoe crabs use beaches like those in Jamaica Bay as their mating grounds because their location in a bay