‘Ello! I’m Ned Berke, and I’m here to tell you about a remarkable business opportunity. Well, in truth, the opportunity is for me, not for you. One of the wonderful things about being self-employed is that you get to make your own hours. One of the terrible things
dive operations
A mother went into the waters at Manhattan Beach this afternoon with two young children, but one disappeared, kicking off an hour long dive operation in search of the boy. Believed to have drowned, police scrambled emergency response teams that arrived around 5:15 p.m., closing off half the
The following op-ed is by Allan Rosen, a Manhattan Beach resident and former Director of MTA/NYC Transit Bus Planning (1981). I got my first glimpse on Thursday of what Department of Transportation intends to do about bus stops no longer needed as a result of the MTA bus service
MBCG says Shore Blvd and Exeter is more dangerous, as pedestrians leave the footbridge and the road's curve limits visibility.Spurred on by an accident that left one dead and one arrested [/arrest-made-in-fatal-manhattan-beach-accident/] , the Manhattan Beach Community Group has come up with a list of short- and long-term
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.
Old postcards with photos of our neighborhood turn up on eBay fairly often, and subsequently show up in my Google Alerts. There’s usually very little information about the postcards – the one above, for example, is undated with no mention of the publisher or photographer (notice, please, how few houses
Posters
I spotted this poster last week at the bus shelter on Emmons Avenue and East 26th Street, right in front of Applebee’s. The advertisement is a “call to end human trafficking.” The location is no coincidence. The hotels on Emmons Avenue have been known for years as hooker hotels.
anniversary
Anyone who has stopped by Roll-N-Roaster this week probably got accosted by four or five people trying to jam cake, champagne and orange juice down their throat. And at least two kids we saw were horrified by an employee’s attempt to make them balloon animals. But it’s all
Vince Martell has headlined every BayFest in recent memory. It's time for a change.Last night’s BayFest 2011 planning meeting kicked off without a hitch, but with only four people in attendance the group’s challenges for the “biggest BayFest ever” were clear. Most of the evening
clam bars
Courtesy of iandavid via FlickrNew York Times published an appetite-whetting article about local clam bars, beginning with a conversation between strangers at Randazzo’s counter [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/dining/14note.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1] (2017 Emmons Avenue). The writer, Sam Sifton, artfully runs readers
anthony garcia
The following article was originally published on the Manhattan Beach Community Group website [http://www.manhattanbeachbrooklyn.org/?p=595] and is written by the group’s president, Ira Zalcman. He was on the scene of the accident just moments after it happened, and spoke to many witnesses. Zalcman and MBCG
We got a call this morning that police were “swarming” the Aviator Sports and Recreation Center at Floyd Bennett Field. We were told that there were numerous police vehicles in the area, but we don’t know the reason. A later message suggested it may be an extremely large traffic