Arts & Culture
Concert goers sitting on shoulders for a better view during Zeds Dead’s set. (Photo courtesy of Haley-May Block)MCU Park [http://www.brooklyncyclones.com/mcupark/mcupark/] was rocking last weekend as the Mad Decent Block Party [http://maddecentblockparty.com/]music festival rolled through Coney Island. Among Saturday’s performers
Food & Drink
“2-for-1” lobsters at Nick’s. Photo Courtesy of Haley-May Block.Looking for authentic, New England-style seafood, but don’t want to leave the neighborhood? We got just the place for you. At Nick’s Lobster House, [/business-overview/nicks-lobster-fish-restauran-t-fish-market-brooklyn-ny-11234/7a0db111-3c23-4351-b6bd-414017b1b7f7/] located at 2777 Flatbush Ave, you can sit on the canopied
News
A boarded up home. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Councilman Mark Treyger, chair of City Council’s Committee on Recovery and Resiliency, and a group of elected officials from across the city, are calling on mayor’s administration to provide deadline extensions to homeowners registered with the Build It Back
Announcements
With the new school year about to begin, are you uncertain of which daycare is right for you and your toddler? Tired of those small, outdated home-based daycares and fed up with larger centers having year long wait lists? The perfect solution is right here in your neighborhood! Royal Star
Police & Fire
East 26th Street and Avenue T in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/E+26th+St,+Brooklyn,+NY/@40.6023652,-73.946114,3a,60.8y,245.36h,98.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sm76TWCqG_IHQdV2abs6Hyw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dm76TWCqG_
Announcements
is holding a community meeting at Homecrest Playground [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/homecrest-playground] on August 9th at 7:30pm to discuss the issues affecting local parks. Deutsch will be joined by Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey, NYPD Brooklyn South Chief Steven Powers, NYPD 61st Precinct Captain Winston Faison, as
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/WxHw7rbRV-Q Cops are looking for a man who stole a bike from a backyard shed in Sheepshead Bay last month. It was reported to the police that on Friday, July, 22, at 5am, the suspected hopped the fence into the backyard of a residential home located near
Nonsponsored
(Courtesy Zillow/Max Nissim Chera of RR SHEEPSHEAD INC. [http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/house,condo,apartment_duplex,mobile,townhouse_type/2097614504_zpid/7_days/featured_sort/40.598558,-73.924277,40.577146,-73.958867_rect/14_zm/] )Change can be good, and a different neighborhood can bring
Education
Pam Harris at a press conference in Kaiser Park last week. (Photo by Alex Ellefson/Sheepshead Bite)New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) pledged last month to wage a vigorous defense of its endorsed candidates who have come under attack from a group pushing for a controversial private school education
Events
Comptroller Scott Stringer (Courtesy of Comptroller Scott Stringer’s Office) Comptroller Scott Stringer will be taking our queries at his southern Brooklyn town hall [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/07/comptroller-host-town-hall-aquarium-august/#.V6OmANArIU0] in Coney Island tonight and we looked into how folks can tune in and ask him questions. The
Events
Brooklyn Senior Idol 2010 winner Nunzio Franzese. (Photo: Martin J. Golden / Facebook)Got a favorite song and love to sing? Are you over 50? Then this competition is for you! Senator Marty Golden, in conjunction with Xaverian High School [http://www.xaverian.org/page], announced details for the 10th Annual
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NYCHA renderings of Coney Island sites 4 & 5. (Courtesy: James McCullar Architecture Inc. [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/RTR-CI%204&5.pdf])The New York City Housing Development broke ground on a $41 million project to restore the Coney Island Sites 4/5 development funded