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Source: NYPD’s 70th Precinct, via TwitterIt was a whodunnit of proportions usually seen on Saturday morning children’s cartoons. A crime was in progress, but the suspect had left the scene. How will they find him? Oh, the criminal mastermind left footprints in the snow. That’s what happened
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Well, this is certainly something new. Councilman Chaim Deutsch and the Bay Improvement Group are teaming up to bring live music to Emmons Avenue’s Driscoll Tucker Park, beginning this Sunday. As you can see from the flier above, there will be three dates, with three hours of live music
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Preparations are almost complete for Bay Improvement Group’s Bayfest 2014 [http://www.bigbayfest.org/], the annual Emmons Avenue waterfront celebration now in its 23rd year. The event this year will be anchored by two main stages, with Broadway Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields headlining one, and indie vocalist Darnaa
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The NYPD is turning to neighbors for help in tracking down a burglar caught doing his dirty deed on surveillance video. Police say the man broke into an East 27th Street home near Avenue Z through a back window at around 9:30 p.m. on August 31. The man
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Source: gorbould/FlickrAn ex-Ghostbuster might be roaming around your neighborhood toting along some film-making buddies. Sources have tipped us off that none other than Bill Murray, aka the greatest man of our times, is shooting a movie called St. Vincent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170593/] in Marine Park. The
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The Sheepshead Bay / Plumb Beach Civic Association held its annual Memorial Day and Armed Forces Day Parade on Saturday, drawing scores of neighbors to watch antique automobiles, local veterans and school kids honor the men and women of the nation’s armed forces. Like other Memorial Day observances, the event
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Photo courtesy of Esfir NeymanWe received this photo and a message from SBites reader Esfir Neyman: > We have a stripped vehicle on Emmons Ave for over a month. Reported to 311 – nothing is being done. In addition we have cars parked without plates on Emmons between E 26 and
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The Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association is celebrating the holidays tomorrow with refreshments, music and a panel on community service. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Kings Chapel (Quentin Road and East 27th Street). The panel, titled “Inter-relationships: Neighbors Serving and Sharing,” feautres Dr. Alvin Kass, Rabbi
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A new market serving halal products has opened at 2705 Avenue Z, off East 27th Street… you know, just a block away from the 2812 Voorhies Avenue mosque, an area that opponents claimed has no Muslim residents. Well, regardless, the Sheepshead Bay Halal Market has been open for a few
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Tappen's Hotel, Emmons Avenue and East 27th Street. Source: Forgotten New York Remember last month, when The Village Voice’s Robert Sietsema compiled a round-up in which Sheepshead Bay nabbed the top three slots [/sheepshead-bays-got-the-best-deceased-restaurants/] out of five for “Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants [http://blogs.
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Shopping carts photographed early New Year's Day. (Photo courtesy of a reader) We would have had our picture posted since last week, but we were recovering from a serious hangover that lasted a couple of days. Believe me, I would take a serious hangover like that one any