Nonsponsored
Photo via benweser [https://www.instagram.com/p/BA93w7OjkKy/?taken-at=1743231] Following the record-breaking blizzard [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/01/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/] that blanketed parts of the city in almost three feet of snow, support is growing in the city council for a bill that would suspend certain parking and
Nonsponsored
A car snowed in by Winter Storm Jonas. (Photo: Ned Berke [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206686209408488&set=a.1878414194685.107486.1071163781&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Following the record-breaking blizzard [/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/] that blanketed parts of the city in almost three feet of snow, support is
Announcements
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThere’s a potential blizzard headed our way on Saturday and Mayor de Blasio has issued a Hazardous Travel Advisory [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/074-16/mayor-de-blasio-issues-hazardous-travel-advisory] , so grab a good book or binge-watch your favorite show on Netflix this weekend instead of heading out
Police & Fire
Sergeant Cara Mulham standing between City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, left, and Captain Winston Faison. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)A local cop received heaps of gratitude Wednesday night at the 61st Precinct’s community council meeting for helping deliver a baby boy [/local-cop-helps-deliver-newborn-on-the-way-to-the-hospital/] while riding in an ambulance on the
Announcements
What better way to fight the recent cold snap that with one of Spielberg’s heartwarming classics? City Councilman Chaim Deutsch is sponsoring a free screening of “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” this Sunday at James Madison High School. The doors open an hour before the movie begins at 3pm in
Bensonhurst
(Photo: L.C. Nøttaasen [https://www.flickr.com/photos/magnera/3984413077/] / Flickr)Almost 7,000 people lost power for several hours Sunday after two power outages struck Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend. The first blackout was caused by a fallen tree limb near East 26th Street and Avenue I, a spokesperson
News
(Photo: L.C. Nøttaasen [https://www.flickr.com/photos/magnera/3984413077/] / Flickr)Almost 7,000 people lost power for several hours Sunday after two power outages struck Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend. The first blackout was caused by a fallen tree limb near East 26th Street and Avenue I, a spokesperson
Police & Fire
Captain Winston Faison speaking at the 61st Community Council meeting. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sheepshead Bay’s station house, the 61st Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_061.shtml], came up short by a hair in having the greatest reduction in crime out of all
Central Brooklyn
CO Deputy Inspector di Blasio at the 70th Precinct Community Council meeting and Holiday Party. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)The 70th Precinct Community Council [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_070.shtml]meeting was a lively event Wednesday evening. Elected officials from both city
Events
The Be Proud Foundation’s 2014 Toys for Tots drive. (Photo: Be Proud Foundation [https://www.facebook.com/BeProudNY/photos/a.326426244224860.1073741834.226935024173983/326426410891510/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Get in the holiday spirit with some karaoke with your neighbors. There’
News
Fog in Manhattan Beach. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on Twitter
Police & Fire
Cops believe 31-year-old Raji Wilson is responsible for a rape and robbery in Coney Island. (Photo provided by the NYPD)Cops put the cuffs this morning on the 31-year-old man wanted for raping a Coney Island woman at gunpoint in the stairwell of her apartment building and then committing another