Bensonhurst
1668 59th Street photo via Google MapsYet another “anonymous” Brooklyn-based company is building up southern Brooklyn, this time bringing a multi-family apartment building to Boro Park, at 1668 59th Street. At least it’s on an empty, weed-filled lot, and they’re not demolishing any longstanding neighborhood homes [/gravesend-development/] for
Bensonhurst
An oldie but a goodie. The Verrazano in 2005. Photo via WikipediaWhat southern Brooklyn news did you miss this week? Find out and catch up with The South BK Beat: McCabe officially becomes a Republican [http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/mccabe-officially-becomes-republican/] [Kings County Politics] Bay Ridge run raises money for homeless
fort greene
Electric Lotus Tattoo Owner Jae Connor. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)When Jae Connor was a child, he was fascinated by a skull tattoo on his father’s forearm. “I must have asked him about that tattoo 100,000 times,” he says about the eye-patch-wearing skull surrounded by flames and
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
Arts & Culture
Photo by Bella Karas.Morning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that you’d like to see featured, send it to photos@sheepsheadbites.com. Also, follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/SheepsheadBites], Twitter [http://twitter.com/sheepsheadbites], and Instagram
Bensonhurst
Photos by Charles Harbutt via NYPL [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ca46110-c604-012f-b53c-58d385a7bc34#/?uuid=c42cb93f-8e2c-ca65-e040-e00a18064e5c&rotate=0] Take a trip down memory lane with this 1969 Brooklyn Community Planning District 11 brochure [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ca46110-c604-012f-b53c-58d385a7bc34#/?uuid=c42cb93f-8e2c-ca65-e040-e00a18064e5c&rotate=0] on what it was like to live
Neighbors
Full video of Let’s Get Organized, Tuesday, November 15, 2016. (Courtesy of the office of Brad Lander) The stained glass windows which surround the interior of Congregation Beth Elohim [https://congregationbethelohim.org/] did not betray the concern evident on the faces of many of those in attendance on Tuesday
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Today, led by a hankering for dumplings, I wandered into Samir Restaurant, the Uzbek and Russian spot that debuted in April on Coney Island Avenue [/blog/food/restaurant/new-uzbeki-restaurant-comes-coney-island-avenue/]. Uzbek and Russian dishes fill the menu ranging between $7 and $30 — some of them without
Food & Drink
(Courtesy BKLYNER/Justin Fox)Sometimes, we make ourselves sick with stress. Wonder why [/brooklynites-support-love-neighbors-unite-to-show-love-trumps-hate/]? Given my steady diet of comfort food, I needed some nourishment. Given my congestion, I wanted powerful flavors. Hibino [http://hibino-brooklyn.com/] (333 Henry Street, between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street) is a Japanese restaurant in
green
The project in question is the Jamaica Bay/Rockaway Draft Reformulation Plan [/everything-need-know-new-storm-resiliency-proposal/], and its objective is to enhance storm resiliency efforts on the shorefront areas that were blasted by Superstorm Sandy. The $3.8 billion plan talks of raising bulkheads and sea walls, as well as even larger projects
Bensonhurst
1534 62nd Street, photo via Property Shark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property-Report/?propkey=261112]On an industrial Boro Park street just a few blocks from the 66th Precinct, one tipster claims a lot of shady business is going down. “At 1534 62nd street, there is a ‘business’ by the
Bensonhurst
Photo by George BurshteynAssemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz’s letter to the Army Corps of Engineers [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/11/deadline-comment-army-corps-storm-resiliency-plan-extended/] proved to be fruitful. The deadline to comment on the Army Corps storm resiliency plan for our shores has been extended to December 2, according to Cymbrowitz’s office.