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Source: WikipediaThe Brighton Beach Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/brighton-beach] will close in January — and reopen in the fall — while the branch gets a $1.5 million overhaul of its heating and cooling system, according to a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Public Library. The branch will shutter its doors
Announcements
Santa Clause waving from the roof of Good Shepherd Church. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Christmas is Friday, December 25; if you are going away for the holiday, we wish you safe travels and good weather. However, if you’re sticking around the neighborhood, note that Christmas Eve, Thursday, December
Business
Source: Brooklyn Banya/FacebookIf you do one thing in 2016, it should be to round up your friends and head to the banya. A banya is a Russian-Turkish bathhouse that typically includes a sauna, a steam room, and a freezing cold pool of water. In the Old Country, they’d
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Courtesy of Mark TreygerCome out for two hours free ice skating at Abe Stark Skating Rink [http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/iceskating/1] (1902 West 19th Street) on Tuesday, December 29, and Wednesday, December 30, starting both days at 9:30am. Hang out with local elected officials, and enjoy hot
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A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)It’s the latest legal kerfuffle involving a certain Trump Village co-op board and its embattled former president, Igor Oberman. The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the co-op
Food & Drink
(Photo by Ned Berke)A local Turkish restaurant has added some extra holiday cheer to Sheepshead Bay this year by sponsoring holiday banners in the neighborhood for the first time in recent memory. Opera Cafe [http://www.operacafelounge.com/], the Turkish eatery located on Emmons Avenue, who wowed us this
Business
Macy’s Backstage, a new discount clothing store, opened in the Loehmann’s Seaport Plaza on September 2. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Brooklynites love to patronize their homegrown businesses. And indeed, it’s often the mom-and-pop shops that give a neighborhood its character. However, over the last decade, mega
Police & Fire
A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” who had barricaded himself inside his Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why
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Anaya Lee Willabus posing with a copy of her new book. (Photo provided by Dimple Willabus)By Chris Butera Brooklyn has a new author, and she’s only nine-years old. On Saturday morning, the Mill Basin Library hosted Anaya Lee Willabus for a book signing of her first published work: