An elderly woman is in critical condition after a livery cab struck her on Nostrand Avenue between Avenue Z and Voorhies Avenue. The 85-year-old woman was hit at 1:52 p.m. while crossing the street in front of 3909 Nostrand Avenue. She was taken to Kings County Hospital in
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[/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dsc_0504.jpg] Scaffolding and construction barriers at the new building being erected at 2979 Ocean Avenue at Avenue Z are expected to be removed this week, as the edifice nears completion. The three-story mixed-use property will include five retail units on the first floor, and
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If you’re reading this, then you can already see that Sheepshead Bites has a new look, and we hope you’re as pumped up about it as we are. Bold, elegant and classy – we call it bolelegassy – our new digs reflect where we plan to go in the coming
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Juan Reyes, of Avenue U, has been arrested and charged with murder of a 13-year-old boy with a screwdriver. We first told you about the shocking incident on Thursday [/blog1.php/crime/fatal-stabbing-on-e-15th-and-ave-x], and it’s good to see it has come to an end. The murder happened Wednesday night
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(Photo by Daniel Cavanagh) Last night’s hearing on the Brooklyn Dreams Charter School [/blog1.php/Education/brooklyn-dreams-charter-school-dreaming-] went much as expected: an unremarkable turnout of local and citywide charter opponents, with a smattering – an itsy, bitsy smattering – of advocates. To say the least, the opposition – though equally impassioned in
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We’ve just been told that Robert Fernandez, aka BrooklynQ, the organizer of Sheepshead Bay’s Grillin’ On the Bay festival/competition, and frequent tipster here at Sheepshead Bites, has signed on to help teach a Pit Master Training Class in Staten Island. He will assist Smokin’ Joe Mizrahi, proprietor
A 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death with a screwdriver last night on East 15th street and Avenue X. The victim, Miguel Saavedra, was attacked just before 7:30 p.m. He was walking with a friend who is a year younger when the suspect, described as a male Hispanic
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Photo by Nina via Flickr. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninabradica/]
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Councilman Lew Fidler is bristling at Brooklyn Dreams Charter School’s push into our ‘hood [/blog1.php/Education/brooklyn-dreams-charter-school-dreaming-]. Though he’s against charter schools in general, he’s particularly angered about the latest attempts to infiltrate our own District 22. “We don’t want it, we don’t need
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A user over at Citynoise.org [http://citynoise.org/article/9607], a public photoblog for urbanites, posted these pictures that show a few clients of Sheepshead Bay’s United States Post Office branch as the victims of a pointless, harmless, and slightly amusing joke. Apparently someone got incredibly bored in
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We at Sheepshead Bites are very sociable people (not really). So it should come as no surprise (actually, it’s very surprising) that we receive invitations to cool events and offers all the time (almost never). For example, just recently we got invited to see the Brooklyn Cyclones game this
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(Photo courtesy of Alexandre Chang via Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandrechang/1201385569/]) To help you plan your weekend better, Sheepshead Bites is launching a new feature – the Restaurant Review Mania. Every Friday we’ll scour the web’s top business and restaurant review sites like Yelp and Citysearch