street lights
I Wonder Who Paid For This?
All fixed! Brand spanking new light, pole, and base. Who’s bill is this going to show up on? Photo taken on Wednesday, around 2 p.m.
Ned Berke
Help Save These Abandoned Kitties!
Om nom nom nomWhen I was a kid, my family took in two newborn kittens that some scumbag had put in a plastic bag and dumped in the garbage. I still can’t believe a person could do that, and would love to think it was an isolated incident. But
yom hashoah
Cymbrowitz Honors Winners Of Holocaust Contest
Students from PS 195 wrote letters to Anne Frank, promising never to forget the HolocaustMore than 300 people – mainly schoolchildren – came to Manhattan Beach this past Sunday to remember the Holocaust on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at a ceremony honoring the winners of a Holocaust Essay, Poetry, Performance and
Blogs
Sheepshead Bay Residents Tell Curbed What’s What
After we posted the Sheepshead Bay – Penny Lane music video [/sheepshead-bay-road-is-the-new-penny-lane/] on Monday, a number of other blogs and websites began snatching it up. We don’t know where it appeared first, but we do know that no one credited Sheepshead Bites for cranking it out to the public. But
neighborhoods
NY Mag Puts Sheepshead Among Best Nabes
Sure, we’ve all known Sheepshead Bay is one of the city’s best neighborhoods, but now we’re getting some much deserved attention from the city press. New York Magazine’s much touted “The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York [http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65374/?imw=Y&
East 14th Street's Lights Are A Bunch Of Wussies
Courtesy of Dave B.Well, we all know drivers come first in this city. Not pedestrians, not baby carriages, and definitely not bicycles. So when someone put these pedestrian traffic lights up in what was apparently the path of local drivers, clearly the light had it coming, right? This one
Midweek Photo: Ad Added By Adders With Attitude
Courtesy of Lisanne AndersonI wonder what the people at the English Learning Center think.
east 29th st
Another Broken Sign
Courtesy of Alex T.At East 29th Street and Voorhies Avenue. Shall we start the DOT clock?
mcginnis of sheepshead bay
Remember When: McGinnis Was A Roast Beef Contender
McGinnis of Sheepshead Bay's Times Square location, circa 1950sI don’t know McGinnis’. It was only recently – literally days ago – that I ever heard of the apparently fabled Sheepshead Bay restaurant, but tales of the roast beef and “fisherman’s breakfast” have been circling my head ever since.
White Picket Fence, Anyone?
A reader recently told me she moved out of Sheepshead Bay to New Jersey (shudder ) because the neighborhood didn’t have any yards and white picket fences. Consider this my rebuttal. East 19th Street between Voorhies Avenue and Jerome Avenue.
Marty: No More Play Time At Asser-Levy Park
Artist's renderings of the proposed amphitheater, courtesy of Grimshaw ArchitectsNewly revealed details about the planned $64-million concert venue in Asser Levy Seaside Park are adding fuel to the controversy about its establishment. The amphitheater will take up nearly three-quarters of the park’s recreation area, leaving roughly the
Attorney Jumps Into Race Against Kruger
Igor Oberman (photo via Facebook)State Senator Carl Kruger won’t go unchallenged this election season, as a 37-year-old Russian-American lawyer tosses his hat in the ring for the Democratic primary. Igor Oberman, a personal injury lawyer and administrative law judge, is mounting an attack on the most well-funded state