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Shopping Cart Series: Dumpster Dying

Shopping carts in the dumpsterHere’s a little something for you long-time Sheepshead Bites readers: You haven’t heard from us shopping carts for a while, but we’re still here, being used and abused, abandoned and tossed out. I promise you, I have all of my four wheels intact.

Shopping Cart Series: Zombie Cart Back To Haunt

Shopping Cart's Night of the Living Dead (Photos courtesy of terrified readers) Just in time for Halloween, a dead shopping cart rises from the dead. [Cue scary voice and creaky floorboards.] Yes, it’s me…Mwahahahaahhaha!!! You will remember me, pictured here [/shopping-cart-series-verrazano-goodbye/], here [/shopping-cart-series-still-breathing/], and here [/shopping-cart-series-the-end/] (is that

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Shopping Cart Series: Afternoon Delight

Shopping carts having a little too much fun? (Photo courtesy of MSniceguy, August 2010)We’re not in Sheepshead Bay or anywhere near, but we’re close enough so that when we decided to roll all the way, we wheeled over to the new (now notorious!) sex shop on Sheepshead

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Happy Rosh Hashana

“Shana tova umetukah” to our Jewish readers. Tonight marks the first day of the Jewish new year, and we would like to wish you all a happy and a healthy one! You can check the dates and times of the candle lighting times for Rosh Hashana, here [http://www.chabad.

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Shopping Cart Series: Still Breathing

No longer determined to die. (Photo courtesy of nolastname, August 2010)Last week, when they first published my story [/shopping-cart-series-verrazano-goodbye/], I thought I was taking my last breath — but, somehow, my diaphragm just kept on going. The next day, when someone started taking pictures of me, it was early morning

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Shopping Cart Series: Verrazano Goodbye

Shopping cart dying on the rocks. (Courtesy of MSniceguy, August 2010)Ashes to ashes. Metal to metal. Here I am, taking my last breath. I know you didn’t see me covered by the gentle waves hitting the rocks, and I know it’s hard to see my clunky metal

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Shopping Cart Series: Locked Out

Shopping cart in search of a locksmith to let him back into his home. (Photo courtesy of Stefanee Rivera))A reader, Stefanee Rivera, sent us this photograph of a lost shopping cart and gave us the background story. > This poor little guy was found early Saturday morning seeking assistance from

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Shopping Cart Series: Ready For Bed

Shopping cart and pillow bed mattress. (Photo courtesy of nolastname, 2010) Roaming the streets of Sheepshead Bay all day with these bags of cans sure can be tiring. I guess it’s not as bad as some have it [/shopping-cart-series-bearing-red-flowers/]. At least I have some shelter (the Belt Parkway overpass

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Shopping Cart Series: Cutie At The Playground

I’m the lovely red shopping cart just kidnapped from the Staples Office Super Store on the corner of Avenue Y and Ocean Avenue. But, who’s going to be looking for or at me in this post? Someone stuck this cutie pie baby into me and rolled us over

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Covenant Ballet Offers Youth Dance Scholarships

Dance scholarship recipient, Mikhail Calliste, and CBTB Artistic Director, Marla Hirokawa. (Photo courtesy of Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn, Inc., 2010) Back in 2008, we wrote about the Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn, Inc (CBTB) and its move out of its long-time Sheepshead Bay residence [ /title-1/], into to a new

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Sheepshead Bay HS Gathering July 30

For those of you following the very emphatic Facebook page of THIS IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&ref=mb#!/event.php?eid=10150137420640361&ref=ts] , you know that the class of 1990 and friends of Sheepshead Bay High School alumni are planning a special summer get together

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Shopping Cart Series: On The Ledge

My photograph was submitted way back in November of 2009! Yes, I said 2009. Apparently, the editors were afraid of the mixed messages that might be sent by a shopping cart sitting on a window ledge. But, what’s the big deal? Let people think what they want. So, I’

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Vacation Bible School On Voorhies Avenue

Vacation Bible School flyer distributed by Bethel Baptist Fellowship 2010The Bethel Baptist Fellowship church distributed these flyers to residents in the Sheepshead Bay area. You are invited to bring your child to their Vacation Bible School (VBS) next week during the evenings. There will be crafts, games, Bible lessons, snacks,

Shopping Cart Series: Shopping Cart Within A Shopping Cart

Carts put out with the garbage. (Photo by Ray Johnson)By the time you see me, it will most likely be too late. I’ll be gone, gone, gone. Oh, but it’s not just me this time, it’s me and a small-sized pedestrian cart that got stuffed into

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Explore The Waterfront While Cycling

[/explore-the-waterfront-while-cycling/epic_ride_2010/]2nd Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride (Graphic Courtesy of Transportation Alternatives)How many of us have lived in Brooklyn almost all of our lives and still are not aware that there is accessible waterfront other than Sheepshead Bay? How many of us, thanks to storms that

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Arm-of-the-Sea coming to KBCC: Sunday, July 18

Flyer for Summer 2010 KBCC PAC events.On Sunday July 18, 2010, the Kingsborough Community College Peforming Arts Center will present Hudson Valley’s acclaimed mask and puppet theater in a special event for kids. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and be a Bright Summer Day, because that’s what

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Asser Levy’s 2010 Summer Concerts Start Tuesday

UPDATE: See July 13, 2010 event The 2010’s Asser Levy Tuesday night free concerts (and a movie) are as follows: Location: Asser Levy Park Bandshell West 5th Street and Surf Avenue Coney Island, Brooklyn Times: All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., with the exception of the screening

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Kingsborough Concerts Start This Weekend

This weekend the Kingsborough Community College Performing Arts Center will be presenting its annual outdoor summer concert series, also known as HOT SUMMER NIGHTS! Tomorrow, Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 8 p.m., Patriotic Pops [http://www.brooklyncommunitywindensemble.org/], a Brooklyn community wind and ensemble concert band, will be welcoming

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Young Survivors Celebrate Life!

Raisa Chernina, President and Founder of Be Proud pictured with Anna, Rachel and Elvira Rodin (Photo courtesy of Antonina Kapchonava)On Thursday, July 1, 2010, the Be Proud Foundation, headed by Raisa Chernina, honored two young leukemia survivors: 9-year-old Rachel Rodin and 2-year-old Jack Rubin. The event, held at New

Shopping Cart Series: Always Garaged

Doing service in a basement garage.(Photo courtesy of Boris G)This photograph of me was taken way back in January. Why they didn’t post me until now is a mystery to me. I’m just as glamorous and colorful as all those other carts rolling around the streets.

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Shopping Cart Series: Edward’s Under The Tree

Edwards shopping cart on East 15 Street resting from the sun. (Photo by Ray Johnson)Well, I’m a long way from my home, Edward’s Super Food Stores. Don’t ask me if I’m from Connecticut or New Jersey, I failed geography. Anyway, somehow, I made my way

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No Make Music In Sheepshead Bay

Make Music NY 2010 website dropdown listing Brooklyn venues.Today is June 21, 2010. The long-awaited start of summer. It’s also the longest day in the year. To celebrate this day, Aaron Friedman, the founder of Make Music NY and his team, have coordinated a city-wide block party [http:

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3rd Set of Twins For Sheepshead Bay Parents

It must be something in Sheepshead Bay’s water. Either that or this local family is extremely, extremely lucky [http://www.kidglue.com/2010/03/12/mom-expecting-her-third-set-of-twins/]. The Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/06/18/2010-06-18_triple_twins_believe_it_or_not_theyre_all_natural_

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Shopping Cart Series: Smile And Say Color

When I first asked them to put me up on this site for the shopping cart series, the answer I got was, “You don’t have a story. You’re just doing your job at this store. Nothing too amazing about that.” I told them that although I’m employed

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Tree Eats Sign

Bensonhurst tree grows over a sign. (Photo by Ray Johnson)This tree on Benson Avenue (near Bay 37th Street) in Bensonhurst appears to be swallowing up this aged sanitation sign. At first, it is a grotesque sight to behold, but after a while it kind of grows on you.