community
Steven Cymbrowitz, Assemblyman for the 45th District, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce [http://www.ibrooklyn.com/] and the Sheepshead Bay Merchants Association will host the fourth annual Sheepshead Bay Summer Stroll and Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair, a free event taking place along Sheepshead Bay Road with activities, food and
Announcements
(Photo via Sheepshead Nursing & Rehabilitation Center)Last week, three students from Sheepshead Bay elementary schools were honored for their award-winning essays recognizing the profound influence of an elderly person in their lives. The essay contest, run by Sheepshead Nursing & Rehabilitation Center at 2840 Knapp Street, gave neighborhood fourth
Police & Fire
(Photo via Brooklyn DA)A 30-year-old man from Sheepshead Bay has been charged with murdering his wife after he admitted to shooting her in the head in May [/police-looking-for-suspect-who-shot-and-killed-wife-in-coney-island/]. Gabino Genao was arraigned today and charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, and assault. The defendant
Police & Fire
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Early this morning, cops found a woman dead in her bathroom in Sheepshead Bay. Police responded to a 911 call of an unconscious female inside of 2765 Ocean Avenue between Avenue W
News
2442 Ocean Avenue between Avenues T & S. (Rendering via Eran Birnbaum Architect) Two St. Edmund’s rectories, built in 1925, are slated to be demolished, and in their place could rise a 7-story medical and apartment complex — mirroring the look of surrounding Ocean Avenue blocks [/long-blighted-ocean-avenue-lot-become-28-unit-residential-development-sheepshead-bay/] . Brooklyn-based developer Yaacov
Big Story
(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Trouble is rising again on the Sheepshead Piers, with a spike in party boat numbers spurring the return of gridlock, trash heaps, and drunken rows every weekend, say neighbors. The boats and their clientele have been a long-time nuisance for many [/booze-cruise-lovers-sheepshead-bay/] who live south
Bensonhurst
Gala Fresh Farms will now be replaced by NetCost. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)Looks like NetCost Market [http://www.netcostmarket.com/] has taken over the space vacated by Gala Fresh Farms at 3100 Ocean Avenue, which closed after just a year in business, having taken the space over from
Nonsponsored
1926 Avenue X at Ocean Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)Development continues apace for an architecture and design firm with a history of skirting regulations. This week, an anonymous LLC filed applications for an eight-story, 28-unit mixed-use building at 1926 Avenue X at the corner of Ocean Avenue, reports YIMBY
Police & Fire
Avenue X and Brown Street, scene of the shooting on July 25, 2016. (Photo via Google Maps)Yesterday, a Brooklyn gang member was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting a teenager in Sheepshead Bay last summer [/police-arrest-assailant-shot-teen-four-times-july-sheepshead-bay/] near a playground. Last July, the 16-year-old victim was standing with
Business
(Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)Muscat Market, a new Glatt Kosher grocery storefront on Avenue U near East 27th Street is inching closer to completion. [/cherry-hill-open-gourmet-kosher-market-avenue-u-former-richard-yees-site-sheepshead-bay/] The store manager told BKLYNER that they’re hoping to open in three weeks, offering catering services, kosher certified meats, packaged groceries, organic vegetables,
Nonsponsored
Summon your inner Lard Lad [https://cdn3.touringplans.com/static/dinings/orl492/ORL492_USF_LardLad.jpg] because today is National Doughnut Day [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doughnut_Day]. For alternative spellers, tonight is National Donut Nite. While you can certainly get your share [/30676-bensonhurst/] of fried or baked
Police & Fire
Updated May 30, 2017: Police are still searching for the perpetrator in these incidents. Help cops catch a suspect connected with five unwanted groping incidents near the Avenue U stop on the Q train, dating back to December. The suspect grabbed the buttocks of a 27-year-old woman at 4am on