61st precint
After 17 days, the medical examiner’s office still has not declared a cause of death for an unidentified body [/no-id-on-body-found-floating-in-sheepshead-bay/] found floating in Sheepshead Bay on May 21 [/body-adrift-in-sheepshead-bay-manhattan-beach/]. Sergeant Doyle of the 61st Precinct Community Affairs Unit told members of the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association on Monday that
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We got down with Coney Island Taste back in November [/a-taste-of-the-peruvian-coast-in-sheepshead-bay/], munching on the restaurant’s Peruvian goodies and dishing it out to all of you. To this day, we continue to get messages from readers thanking us for bringing it to their attention, and at least one reader told
Courtesy of GoogleI’ve never set foot in the Bally’s Total Fitness at 1720 Sheepshead Bay Road (and it’s probably fairly obvious from my squishy disposition). But I thought it was a pretty popular place and must be doing well financially. So I was shocked to hear from
dish dlish
Commuters heading to work from the Sheepshead Bay Road train station yesterday morning probably walked right past Dish D’lish, the bagel store that replaced Bagel Stop back in January [/new-bagel-place-opens/]. When they went home at the end of the day, the store was sporting a new name: Jonathan’s
Ever wondered why commercial vehicles aren’t allowed on the Belt Parkway? This trucker found out just one of the reasons early this morning. His double-hitched truck slammed into the B/Q overpass around 1:30 a.m. At around that time, reader Vyacheslav M. was crossing over the footbridge.
[/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bulldog.jpg]Click to enlargeSo this isn’t the sort of thing I’d normally do, but I’m a real sucker for animals and an even bigger sucker for dogs. A friend of a friend is taking care of this dog at the moment. You
nikira
Another beauty from Nikira’s moleskine [http://www.skineart.com/art/14534/driveway-manhattan-beach-brooklyn-mem/].
The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association praised the 61st Precinct’s Memorial Day response, but requested ways to enhance coordination with the community for a more orderly summer season at last night’s meeting. The group thanked Sergeant Michael Doyle from the NYPD’s 61st Precinct Community Affairs Unit for the
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Courtesy of NYMag.comI’m so very tired of these hacks and has-beens, these ineffectual buffoons, dragging one of the greatest states in the nation down into the trenches of mediocrity. So very, very tired. I’m talking, of course, about our esteemed State Senators – all of them – who collectively
2812 Voorhies Avenue - the site of the proposed mosqueAdvocates for the Sheepshead Bay mosque [/sheepshead-bay-mosque-controversy/]are hosting a Park Slope group’s annual walk for peace in our neighborhood to demonstrate support for the proposed religious facility. The Muslim Consultative Network [http://www.mcnny.org/] advocates strengthening and unifying
stoop lifenortheast blackout 2003
Just one of the disappearing Southern Brooklyn stoopsOne of my favorite memories is from August 14, 2003. Sometime in the afternoon on that muggy day, 55 million people across the Northeast United States and Canada lost power [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003]. Lights went out. Air
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Kings Highway businesses got a measure of relief from the Department of Transportation, which added an hour to the time limit of meters along the busy commercial strip. The Kings Highway Business Improvement District championed the issue back in April, [/is-dot-destroying-kings-highway-businesses/] sending letters to the DOT requesting the meters be